PMQs is in a rut. The exchanges between Cameron and Miliband now descend into the trading of insults even faster than they did before and both sides simply use PMQs as an opportunity to trot out stock lines.
Miliband was determined to use today’s exchanges to paint Cameron as a kiss-up, kick-down politician, trying to contrast his opposition to the mansion tax with his support for the so-called ‘bedroom tax’. (It is, though, worth remembering that only one of these policies is actually a tax.) Miliband fumed, ‘If you’ve got big money you’ve got a friend in the Prime Minister. If you don’t, he couldn’t care less.’
Cameron, for his part, was keen to mock Miliband at every opportunity. There were repeated disobliging references to Miliband’s clash with Myleene Klass on ITV’s The Agenda. Now, this might all cheer up the Tory troops but it is not an edifying sight.
Perhaps, the most interesting moment was when John Baron asked Cameron about a fund for nuclear testing victims.
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