Well, that was an easy Prime Minister’s Questions for David Cameron, wasn’t it? Sometimes the PM just turns up for work and knocks it out of the park. It helped, of course, that for once he had his own team cheering him along, with backbencher after backbencher leaping up to ask loyal questions. The whips will be toasting a win in their office this afternoon.
The Prime Minister had some very good retorts to Ed Miliband indeed. If Labour had a good week on welfare last week, the happy feelings will have evaporated today as Cameron managed to ridicule them not just on the detail of their spending pledges – while hinting that he’s not quite as open to movement on pensions spending as she might have hoped – but also on their attitude. He reminded the Chamber of Ed Balls’ comments last week: ‘Do I think the last Labour government was profligate, spent too much, had too much national debt – no I don’t think there’s any evidence for that’.
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