Corbyn tries to take down May on fire safety record but she hits back with her Trident

Prime Minister Theresa May blamed Tony Blair’s government for changes to local authority budgets. cladding was not compliant with the building regulations”. Cue large intake of breath.

After the Labour leader probed more deeply, Mother Theresa insisted the question was why, given the 100 per cent test failure rate, local authority after local authority had been using materials that appeared not to comply with building regulations.

“That is what we need to get to the bottom of. Why is it that fire inspections and local authority inspections appear to have missed that essential issue?”

Jezza then stepped on the political gas.

He said: “When you cut local authority budgets by 40 per cent, we all pay a price in public safety.” Fewer inspectors and firefighters might have had something to do with the problem, declared the chief comrade.

He said the disaster had “exposed the disastrous effects of austerity, a disregard for working-class communities, and the terrible consequences of deregulation and cutting corners”.

The PM said actually the problem began under Tony Blair.

She was helped out by new Tory MP Leo Docherty, who referred to Jezza’s comments at Glastonbury. It was suggested the hairy Leftie had told organiser Michael Eavis that he would be PM in six months’ time, when he would scrap Trident.

Young Docherty expressed “deep alarm,” saying abandoning HM nuclear deterrent would “utterly undermine” the country’s security.

Mocking Labour’s slogan – for the many, not the few – Mrs May said she joined his shockhorror that the chief comrade was backing Labour’s policy to retain Trident in public but in private wanted to scrap it. She said: “It appears he says one thing to the many and one thing to the few.” he said “any funding that goes to Northern Ireland, then Barnett rules will ensure appropriate funding comes to Scotland”.

At Prime Minister’s Questions, Ian Blackford, the SNP Westminster leader, asked Theresa May whether or not she had, therefore, received “any representations from her Scottish Secretary about the DUP deal either before or after it was signed”.

She said that because of Barnett Formula consequentials, based on increased spending in England through last year’s autumn statement and the budget, Scotland would be better off to the tune of almost £1.2 billion.

“I do not remember, when that money for Scotland was announced, the honourable gentleman complaining more money should be going to Northern Ireland. But then, he is a Nationalist and not a Unionist,” said Mrs May.