Theresa May sends Commons into frenzy at PMQs after making innuendo-laden joke about Peter Bone getting a special birthday present from ‘Mrs Bone’
John Bercow was forced to intervene after Parliament descended in farce after the PM's salacious comments
THERESA May turned PMQs blue today after making an innuendo-laden joke about an MP on his birthday.
After wishing Peter Bone many happy returns, the Prime Minister said: "I do hope that Mrs Bone is going to treat the occasion in the appropriate manner…”
The Commons was whipped into a frenzy by Mrs May’s salacious remark, leading the Speaker of the House to intervene.
But John Bercow only made things worse, telling members: "I want to hear what's coming next!"
This prompted a now slightly sheepish-looking PM to add: "Calm down Mr Speaker..."
The raucous atmosphere was quickly cooled down as the chamber marked the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster, where 144 people, including 116 children, were killed.
And the bizarre moment came at the start of a testy exchange between Mrs May and Jeremy Corbyn, with the Labour leader attacking the Government over NHS spending.
He accused the Conservatives of producing "parity of failure" in the health service as he warned it faces the "worst crisis in its history".
Mr Corbyn also called for Mrs May to address the "reckless and counter-productive" adult social care cuts of her predecessor.
The PM countered by claiming the Tories had sought to increase NHS spending, a guarantee she said Labour failed to match.
Mr Corbyn told the PM: "I started by asking you about parity of esteem - all this Government has produced is parity of failure.
"Failing mental health patients, failing elderly people who need social care, failing the four million on the NHS waiting list, failing five times as many people waiting more than four hours at A&E departments, and another winter crisis is looming.
"The Society for Acute Medicine, I believe, has it right when it says this funding crisis and the local government funding crisis is leaving the NHS on its knees."
Mrs May replied: "What has happened in the NHS over the last six years? More patients being treated, more calls to the ambulance service, more operations, more doctors, more nurses - that's what's been happening in the NHS.
"But let's just look at what your party's approach to the National Health Service is: a former shadow health secretary said it would be irresponsible to put more money in the National Health Service; a former leader of the Labour Party wanted to weaponise the National Health Service.
"At every election, the Labour Party claims that the Conservatives will cut NHS spending, after every election we increase NHS spending.
"At every election Labour claims the Tories will privatise the NHS, at every election in government we have protected the NHS.
"There's only one party that has cut funding for the NHS - the Labour Party in Wales."