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Theresa May set for first Prime Minister's Questions Theresa May attacks 'unscrupulous boss' Corbyn at PMQs
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Theresa May is preparing for her Prime Minister's Questions debut after replacing David Cameron in Downing Street. Theresa May compared Jeremy Corbyn to an "unscrupulous boss" as she made her Prime Minister's Questions debut.
The new PM will go head-to-head with Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in the Commons at midday. As the two leaders clashed on workers' rights, Mrs May suggested Labour frontbenchers had to "double their workload" while Mr Corbyn "exploits the rules to further his own career".
She will also take questions from backbench MPs in the last PMQs before Parliament breaks up for the summer recess on Thursday. Mr Corbyn said Tories might find economic insecurity "funny" but millions of people did not.
After PMQs, Mrs May will meet her German counterpart Angela Merkel. The Labour leader said the government's economic plan had "failed".
The government benches will have a new look from previous Prime Minister's Questions, after Mrs May sacked several high-profile members of Mr Cameron's government in order to appoint her own cabinet. "Is there another one?" he asked.
BBC assistant political editor Norman Smith said PMQs mattered because of the exposure it gave the prime minister and was also important for her standing within her party. Mr Corbyn said austerity meant people "being poorer" and "jobs being cut", prompting Mrs May to respond: "He calls it austerity. I call it living within our means."
Although she is an experienced Commons operator, this would be unlike anything she had faced before, he added. Mr Corbyn, who first welcomed Mrs May to her post, quizzed her on new Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson's previous comments about US President Barack Obama and his use in the past of the term "piccaninnies", a derogatory word for black children.
And he questioned her pledge to stand up for people in insecure jobs, pointing to planned trade union curbs and the use of so-called zero-hours contracts.
Mrs May said it was important to help those "struggling to make ends meet", going on to attack Labour's infighting: "I suspect there are many members on the Opposition benches who might be familiar with an unscrupulous boss; a boss who doesn't listen to his workers; a boss who requires some of his workers to double their workload; and maybe even a boss who exploits the rules to further his own career."
Leaning forward and fixing Mr Corbyn with a direct stare, she added: "Remind him of anybody?"
Migration target
The new PM included a number of barbs at the Labour leader during her first PMQs session, saying the Opposition would spend the summer "tearing itself apart" while the government would be "bringing this country back together".
Mrs May, who will now travel to Berlin to meet her German counterpart Angela Merkel, also faced questions about the UK's vote to leave the EU.
She told Eurosceptic Philip Davies the Brexit vote "sent a very clear message about immigration" which was that people wanted control over EU free movement.
She reaffirmed her commitment to hitting the government's target of bringing net migration down below 100,000, admitting it would "take some time to get there".