When Ed Miliband began at PMQs by asking about Egypt, it looked like he was going to do six high-minded questions on foreign affairs and thus dodge the political attack the Tories had lined up for him. But that wasn’t Miliband’s plan, after a couple of questions on Egypt he shifted to education. I suspect that by the end of session, he wished he stuck to what’s going on in Tahrir Square. For Cameron took the return to domestic politics as an opportunity to relentlessly batter Labour over its links to Unite and Unite’s behaviour in Falkirk.
Cameron and Miliband went at each other with real needle. There was a level of personal animus between the two of them that you don’t normally see. Cameron accused Miliband of reading out ‘questions written by Len McCluskey of Unite.’ Miliband shot back that he’d take no lectures on ethics from the man who had brought Andy Coulson into government.
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