Lansley and Cameron in the firing line

The coalition’s decision to ‘pause’ its NHS reforms has left an open goal for its opponents, and they’ve been busy tapping the ball into this empty net this morning. At its conference up in Liverpool, the Royal College of Nursing has, predictably but embarrassingly, declared that it has no confidence in the health secretary.

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Pensioners have never had it so good

Back in London, Ed Miliband has been making hay while the sun shines attacking both the bill and the pause. His refrain at his press conference this morning was ‘the answer to a bad bill is not to slow it down but to junk it.’

Miliband’s performance this morning was striking for him speaking at a level of policy detail that party leaders normally eschew. He was happy discussing the intricacies of specific clauses of the bill. At one point, he remarked that “for the nerds among us the really interesting thing is”, before going on to discuss a point about competition laws.