David Cameron's 7 Best Jokes From His Final PMQs

Cameron told Corbyn he admired the Labour leader’s “tenacity” in clinging on to power despite attempts by MPs to oust him. “He has reminded me of the Black Knight in Monty Python’s ‘Holy Grail’. He has been kicked so many times but he says, ‘keep going, it’s only a flesh wound’.”

Cameron told MPs of a time he was in New York visiting the then mayor of that city, Michael Bloomberg. Cameron said no one recognised him until one man stopped him on the streets. Putting on an American accent, the PM said he was told: “Cameron, prime minister’s questions, we love your show.”

Veteran Tory cabinet minister Ken Clarke paid tribute to Cameron during the session. But the prime minister, who appointed Clarke his justice secretary in 2010, remembered one of his first run-ins with the former chancellor. “Not many people know this, but his first act as Chancellor of the Exchequer was to fire me as a special adviser,” he revealed to MPs.

Theresa May will be prime minister before the end of the day. And Cameron took the opportunity to point out to the Labour benches how they have yet to have a female leader. “When it comes to women prime ministers I am very pleased to say pretty soon it’s going to be 2-0,” he said. “And not a pink bus in sight,” he added in a reference to Labour’s infamous election campaign bus designed to promote women politicians. 

Cameron also could not resist a joke at the expense of Labour’s protracted attempted coup against Corbyn, given the speed at which the Tories have switched leaders. 

Jeremy Corbyn’s favourite PMQs trick is to read out letters from voters. But this week, his final week, Cameron had a letter too. From Judith. He told the Commons the letter was sent to him on September 15, 2015, the day after Corbyn was elected Labour leader.