It was Monty Python without the jokes. The focus of PMQs today veered surreally between
crisis in north Africa and early swimming pool closures in Leeds. The session opened in Security Council mode with Ed Miliband politely asking the PM to brief us on the humanitarian disaster
evolving in Libya’s border-zone. Cameron went into his statesman-of-the-year routine and announced that HMS York had docked in Benghazi with medical supplies.
At such moments the imperial ghosts of the Commons seem momentarily reawakened. Ed Miliband sounds like some Victorian stooge asking the Foreign Secretary to reassure the nation that an uprising in a far-flung oriental possession is being energetically suppressed.
Having dealt with Libya, Ed Miliband moved to Bromley. He demanded to know why the Tory-governed council wants to close 13 of its 16 Sure Start centres.
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