It was silence as he arrived.
Jeremy Corbyn vowed to end the “yah boo sucks” style of Prime Minister’s Questions before his first session holding David Cameron to account.
Either his party was falling in line and being disciplined or, well, he just didn’t inspire much enthusiasm.
Contrast that with the Conservative leader drawing a huge cheer from his backbenchers as he took his seat in the Commons. There was a kind of roar as the new Labour leader stood up, flanked by Angela Eagle and Tom Watson.
With around 40,000 suggestions from the public to choose from about what to ask at the despatch box, he was not short of material. He also spent most of his first question telling everyone that fact before asking about housing.
Dave was at pains to point out that he shared Jezza’s view that PMQs should be conducted in a “more adult way”.
As the Opposition leader read out the names of those providing the chosen questions Marie, Steven, Paul, Claire, Gail, Angela for the record the PM often repeated them back.
It did get a wee bit personal and almost heated when the question of tax credits was raised. There were heckles from the Labour benches.
“I thought this was the new question time,” quipped the Prime Minister. “It seems the message hasn’t got home.”
Andrew Turner MP immediately followed the exchange with a question about the difficulties the Isle of Wight zoo is having getting a tiger imported.
Perhaps he was just desperate for any sort of roar in the chamber.