Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the spectator's daily politics podcast.

I'm Katie Balls and I'm joined by Isabel Hardman and James Forsyfe.

So when Theresa May stood up at Tory conference and announced that austerity would soon be over, it led most front pages.

But today at PMQ's the first since the recess, we were given a reminder of the problems

with their catchphrase. Isabel, what are those? Well, Jeremy Corbyn had a week to prepare a list of

those problems and what he did was he had his six questions all focused on different topics

that showed that actually public services are struggling a great deal and that they could

do with an end to austerity now and could the Prime Minister say when austerity is going to be over

for people with mental health problems for the police, for local government and so on. And he was

quite effective actually. His questions were quite long but they were focused and he would

retort to Theresa May's answer first by saying well actually no you talk about parity of esteem but

it was labour that ensured that a commitment to parity of esteem between mental and physical health was on

the front page of the Health and Social Care Act and then he'd move on to another topic and by contrast I thought Theresa May was quite

lacking in confidence today it's almost as though she hadn't had that much time or sort of

mental energy to prepare for PMQs because she's been so busy with Brexit Hell Week and James

Theresa May did in response to Jeremy Corbyn repeatedly asking her whether austerity was really over or would

ever be over under Tory government basically adds something to her catchphrase, didn't she?

Should I say austerity is over, but fiscal responsibility is not? This is not the most

catchiest rate. You can't see it on every poster in the country. But I think it's

that paragraph in the conference speech, number 10 point into his stuff, but it also contains

a pledge to keep debt falling as percentage of GDP. The problem with saying, when you, especially when you

talk to people who don't work in SW1, when you say austerity is over, people think that A of the

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