James Forsyth James Forsyth

Cameron has a PMQs trump card – he won the election

The first PMQs after an election victory is a moment to savour for a Prime Minister. He knows that the result gives him a trump card he can play again and again.

So, it was unsurprising that Harriet Harman made little progress against Cameron. He treated it as a gentle net session, meeting each question with a slightly more aggressive and expansive answer. He did, though, seem slightly discombobulated by Ed Balls’ absence. Early on he made a joke about Balls’ defeat and then looked over to where Balls used to sit to drive the point home, but Balls – of course — wasn’t there.

The main event today, though, wasn’t Harman’s questions but the fact that the Westminster leader of the SNP Angus Robertson gets two questions, a product of them being the third party in the House. Robertson used his opportunity well. He asked two thoughtful and well-pitched questions about the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean.

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