By Henry Deedes for the Daily Mail
Published: 22:54 GMT, 6 March 2019 | Updated: 22:54 GMT, 6 March 2019
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A strange lull has suddenly descended upon Westminster. Dark. Eerie. Like the unsettling hushed moments before the heavy squall hits.
Just five days to go, tick, tock, tick, tock, before the House votes on the Prime Minister’s deal to leave the European Union – and the tension among our ruling class is now palpable.
Even the cretin who screams ‘Stop Brexxxxxit’ outside my window at teatime has momentarily gone mute. As such, PMQs yesterday was largely an EU-free zone. Quel relief. Jeremy Corbyn chose to concentrate on the recent knifings, namely chief copper Cressida Dick’s whine about a shortage in police numbers. Strange; whenever I hear the Met top brass moaning about being short-staffed, my mind drifts to the 20 rozzers dispatched to raid blameless war hero Lord Bramall’s home on trumped-up sex offender charges.
There are just five days to go before the House votes on the Prime Minister’s deal to leave the European Union
Mr Corbyn said the epidemic of knife killings was all down to government cuts. There are insufficient bobbies everywhere, he claimed. To prove his point, he had even a letter (zzzzzz) from ‘Mike in Gosport’ saying he doesn’t feel safe any more. Mrs May pointed out that police budgets had gone up this year and will go up even further next.
Home Secretary Sajid Javid spent these exchanges shifting uneasily in his seat. I don’t blame him. Knife crime is a serious issue, but there was something very unseemly watching our masters going tit-for-tat, trading politics on the issue.
Further down the frontbench, Health Secretary Matt Hancock and a dolled-up Amber Rudd simpered at each other coquettishly. Nor was there much
