Jeremy Corbyn flew off the handle during his response to the Chancellor’s budget and a Tory MP made a joke about his age as he spoke about cash for elderly care.
Labour MPs claimed on Twitter that an ‘ageist’ and ‘inappropriate’ joke was aimed at Mr Corbyn by a Tory MP and the Labour leader started pointing and shouting.
It came as the Opposition leader noted more than a million elderly people ‘aren’t receiving the care they need’.
Mr Corbyn, after hearing the remark, directed his anger at the Tory benches when he added: ‘Over £6 billion would have been cut from social care budgets by next March.
‘I hope the honourable member begins to understand what it’s like to wait for social care stuck in a hospital bed while other people are having to give up their work to care for them.’
Jeremy Corbyn lost his temper in his budget response when he was speaking about elderly care and a Tory MP made a joke about his age.
The Labour leader started pointing and shouting as an unnamed MP cracked a joek about him
Labour MPs could be heard shouting ‘shame on you’, while some Opposition backbenchers shouted ‘get out’ and pointed towards the exit.
Mr Corbyn said: ‘The uncaring, uncouth attitude of certain members opposite needs to be called out.’
In his response the Labour leader focussed on cuts to police officer numbers and rising levels of in-work poverty.
Deputy speaker Lindsay Hoyle had to call for order as tensions boiled over
He also criticised the Government for failing to take action to tackle credit card debt.
‘Debt is being racked up because the Government is weak on those who exploit people, such as rail companies hiking up fares above inflation year on year, and water companies and energy suppliers,’ said the Labour leader.
Mr Corbyn also criticised the Government’s measures on housing, saying very little was mentioned about the private rented sector – even though landlords were paid £10 billion in housing benefit.
‘With this Government delivering the worst rate of house building since the 1920s and 250,000 fewer council homes, any commitment would be welcome,’ he said.
‘But we’ve been here before. The Government promised 200,000 starter homes three years ago. Not a single one has yet been built in those three years.
‘We need a large scale publicly funded house building programme, not this Government’s accounting tricks and empty promises.’
Labour, Mr Corbyn said, backed the abolition of stamp duty for first time buyers because it was another Labour policy in its manifesto in June.
He said: ‘This Government continues preference for spin over substance, that means across this country the words Northern Powerhouse and Midlands Engine are now met with derision.’
Mr Hammond and Mrs May found a moment to laugh during Mr Corbyn’s response, which focussed on police officer numbers and rising levels of in-work poverty
Yorkshire and Humber got only one 10th of the transport investment per head given to London, he said, adding that Government figures showed that every region in the north of England had seen a fall in spending on services since 2012.
The Midlands, East and West, he said, were receiving less than 8% of total transport infrastructure investment compared with 50% going to London.
In the East and West Midlands, he added, one in four workers were paid less than the living wage.
He said: ‘Combined with counterproductive austerity this lack of investment has consequences, it’s sluggish growth and shrinking pay packets.’
Public investment, he said, had virtually halved and, under the current Government, Britain had the lowest rate of public investment in the G7.
He said: ‘But it’s now investing in driver less cars after months of road testing back seat driving in the Government.’
By moving from RPI to CPI indexation on business rates he said the Chancellor had adopted another Labour policy.
Mr Corbyn said businesses are delaying ‘crucial investment decisions’ because, if the Government doesn’t ‘get its act together soon, they will be taking relocation decisions’.
‘Crashing out with no deal and turning Britain into a tax haven would damage people’s jobs and living standards, serving only a wealthy few.’
He also accused the Government and Tories in the European Parliament of not clamping down on tax havens.
On the Grenfell Tower tragedy, Mr Corbyn said Mr Hammond had failed to fund the ‘£1 billion investment needed’ for sprinklers in all high rise buildings.
He said some councils had asked for, but were refused, financial help, while Parliament is about to be retrofitted with sprinklers.
‘The message is pretty clear: this Government cares more about what happens here than happens to people living in high rise homes, in effect saying they matter less.’
Concluding his speech, Mr Corbyn said: ‘We were promised with lots of hype a revolutionary Budget, the reality is nothing has changed.
‘People were looking for help from this Budget and they have been let down: let down by a Government that, like the economy they have presided over, is weak and unstable and in need of urgent change.
‘They call this a Budget fit for the future, the reality is this is a Government no longer fit for office.’