Miliband chooses the wrong day to have a good PMQs

Ed Miliband has just managed to have a really good PMQs on a day when there is such a big story following the session that it will barely get reported.

The Labour leader focused on broken promises, and cleverly managed to force the Prime Minister to talk about immigration by asking about the failure of the net migration target. David Cameron had planned not to talk about immigration at all, but he then found himself doing just that in the Chamber.

Then the Labour leader moved on to the promised ‘no top-down reorganisation’ of the NHS. Then it got personal, with both men scrapping using party mess-ups as their weapons. Miliband told the Prime Minister he was behaving like David Mellor, while Cameron told the Labour leader he was going to look as awkward as he did when he ate a bacon sandwich, and that ‘We know that Mrs Brown’s Boys was a comedy, Mr Brown’s Boys was a tragedy!’

Miliband had a good pay-off with ‘when he says it, he doesn’t mean it’ and Labour attack dog Kevin Brennan also had a good quip that Cameron was ‘once, twice, three times a failure’.