Theresa May was put on the spot at Prime Minister’s Questions this week, when MP Helen Hayes asked about workers striking at the Picturehouse cinema chain.
May’s struggle to answer the question – halfway through, she lost her voice and had to take a sip of water – merely drew attention to the the vacuousness of her answer, that the government was “taking the right decisions to ensure we’re growing the economy and providing those jobs”.
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