David Cameron tells Jeremy Corbyn to “put on a proper suit, do up your tie, and sing the national anthem“

The “Yo Momma” of all parliaments.

Your mole tends to avoid PMQs, preferring to watch University Challenge when the urge to watch posh people making incomprehensible noises arises.

So it missed an entertaining set-to between the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition over their mums. A Labour MP – your mole believes it was one of the Eagle twins – heckled David Cameron about his mother’s opposition to local government cuts in Oxfordshire, asking what his mother would say were she there. To which Cameron responded: “Put on a proper suit, do up your tie, and SING THE NATIONAL ANTHEM.”

#PMQs is such a childish farce sometimes https://t.co/EQP87hG8uS

— Elena Cresci (@elenacresci) February 24, 2016

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Charming. Still, some people saw the funny side:

Next week on #PMQs: “Your momma so dumb, she was convinced by Andy Burnham’s U-Turns.”

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— Stephen Bush (@stephenkb) February 24, 2016

I joked last month Cameron would soon respond with “your mum” jokes. Kind of scary he’s using my Twitter feed for political advice

— Hammard (@hammard_1987) February 24, 2016

“Prime Minister’s Questions, or as it’s been renamed, “My Mum’s Bigger than Your Mum”. #PMQs

— Gordon Ridout (@GordonRidout) February 24, 2016

While Corbyn had this response after via Twitter.

“If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes & shoddy furniture let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas & shoddy philosophies” Einstein #pmqs

— Jeremy Corbyn MP (@jeremycorbyn) February 24, 2016