Walking into the press gallery, I saw something I haven’t seen for ages. Labour MPs animated, laughing, roaring, unfrozen. David Cameron was making the light-hearted speech which follows opening of parliament, and making everyone laugh. “We welcome the climate change bill, and when it comes around next year we will welcome it again”. Labour MPs were allowing themselves to be entertained; Showing that it can be done. Sadly for them, Gordon Brown can’t seem to do it.
When we moved to the combat phase, Cameron was on great form speaking with immense confidence. Taking interventions, he was asked about the “black hole” in his plans – Brown’s favourite theme. “I was wondering how we would go before the whip’s read-out question”, he said. “There is only one black hole in British politics and it is the gap where the prime minister’s credibility used to be”.
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