Miliband survives! That news should steady Labour nerves. For today at least. Their leader has the knack of turning near-certain defeat into absolutely-certain catastrophe, but he bumbled through PMQs this afternoon without suffering a serious setback.
He has so little ground from which to attack the government that he had to lead on a niche issue. Rail fares. He asked the prime minister why the operating companies have managed to hike prices by 11 per cent on the busiest routes.
Cameron: ‘Because of a power given to them by the last Labour government.’
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With that lethally terse response the PM sat down. To his credit, Miliband wasn’t rattled. But the exchanges that followed were about as illuminating as blind-man’s-bluff played in a pot-hole. ‘The Prime Minister is wrong’, said Miliband.
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