A CALM and collected Jeremy Corbyn served the Tories a series of slapdowns on tax credit cuts and unaffordable housing during Prime Minister’s Questions yesterday.

Prime Minister David Cameron was left floundering by the questions sent to the new Labour leader this week by concerned members of the British public.

Tory MPs in the Commons laughed and sneered when Mr Corbyn started reading out a question from Kelly, an employed single mother of a disabled child.

She works full-time for £7.20 an hour, Mr Corbyn said.

He asked Mr Cameron how much he thought Kelly would be worse off when the cuts are implemented next April.

The Prime Minister skirted the question by claiming that she would benefit from the so-called national living wage, the rebranded minimum wage that is set to rise to just £9 per hour in five years’ time.

Mr Corbyn returned to the stand to say that Kelly would actually be £1,800 worse off per year.

The Tory PM’s reign had seen an extra 500,000 children living in poverty, with another 200,000 at risk, he added.

He accused the Tories of “taking away opportunities and limiting the life chances of these children.”

Mr Cameron peddled the worn-out Tory line that the “best route out of poverty is to help people get a job,” ignoring that Kelly is already in work.

Mr Corbyn retaliated: “The Prime Minister is doing his best and I admire that.

“His party and himself had put forth a Budget which cuts tax credits, gives tax breaks to the very wealthiest in our society, so inequality is getting worse, not better.”

Mr Corbyn then said that Mr Cameron would be “welcome to change his mind” about his decision.

At least 2,000 people emailed the Labour leader in three days about the tax credit cuts and at least 3,500 about the housing crisis.

Tory MPs laughed again as Mr Corbyn started to read out a question from Matthew, who shares a house with three other people and earns a decent wage but cannot afford one of the Tories’ expensive “starter homes.”

But after a withering look across the chamber, he added: “This might be funny to some members, but it won’t be funny to Matthew.”