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Is Prime Minister's Questions a good way to scrutinise the executive?

Ruth Tarrant

10th December 2015

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PMQs is often criticised as being merely a "theatrical" performance that merely shows off oratory and wisecracking skills, rather than the effective source of scrutiny of the executive that it is meant to be.

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Ruth Tarrant

Ruth has been Subject Lead in Economics at tutor2u for many years after a career of teaching Economics, Business, Politics and Maths in a range of secondary schools. She is a highly experienced A level Economics Examiner, and also teaches undergraduate Economics on a very part-time basis at the University of Oxford. Ruth is passionate about making economics fun, engaging and accessible.

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