If Roman Abramovich owned the Labour party, Ed Miliband would be toast by now. The
floundering opposition leader gave the sort of inept, predictable and ill-organised performance at PMQs that would get a manager sacked in the Premiership. It scarcely helps that Mr Miliband seems
to prepare for these sessions like a deluded psychic. He and his team of prophets at Labour HQ clearly believe they can foretell what the prime minster will say and how best to smash his answers to
pieces. Referring to the rise in unemployment, Mr Miliband began by attacking the PM for scrapping the Future Jobs Fund in March. He boasted, rather weirdly, that ‘under Labour, youth
unemployment never reached 1 million.’
Cameron explained in detail how the new Work Programme is much speedier and more efficient than the Future Jobs Fund, ‘which just put graduates into public sector employment.’
This landed Ed in difficulty.
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