Cameron was a mere warm-up man at PMQs today. With Osborne’s statement due at
12.30 the session felt like a friendly knock-up rather than the main fixture.
Ed Miliband rose to thunderous cheers from his backbenches and he tried to capitalise on their support by opening up an ancient Tory wound – heartless attitudes to unemployment. Spotting Cameron chinwagging with Osborne instead of listening, Miliband chided the PM for not paying attention. ‘Well, it’s a novel concept,’ said Dave smoothly ‘but in this government the prime minister and the chancellor speak to each other.’
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Ed’s problem was that the OBR has predicted rising employment for the next three years. Bad news for the opposition leader. So he dreamed up an imaginary gloomsday scenario where jobless totals soar and he tried to extract a few post-dated cheques from the PM.
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