Brown does a Hillary (again) – and fights back

An angrier Brown was in front of us today, holding handwritten notes for his exchanges with Cameron rather than anything given to him by No10. He would scribble furiously, and went on the offensive – asking Cameron whether he supports ID cards for foreign nationals. It seemed a bit daft at PMQs to hear the PM ask questions of the Opposition leader so often, but it won’t be repeated on TV and he needs to show the House he is on the attack. Cameron appeared to say yes, but it wasn’t clear. Those normally ashen Labour faces lit up.
 
Brown again brought up Cameron’s role “as the principal adviser to the Chancellor” (as if) on Black Wednesday. Cameron responded by listing things Brown believed in his 20s: wholesale renationalistion, etc. I don’t think it worked. There is no equivalence between being a Treasury bag carrier and backing loony policies, as brown did, at a time when sensible labour folk had moved on.