Miliband grows to relish PMQs

Ed Miliband had a bit of swagger about him at PMQs today. In a sign of how the two leaders fortunes have reversed, it is now Miliband who appears to be relishing their exchanges. 

From the off, Cameron was in a peevish mood. Miliband secured a fairly comfortable points victory. His ‘Cabinet of comedians’ line was a definite hit and Nadine Dorries keeps presenting him with new material. But Cameron will be relieved that Miliband is landing any knock-out blow on him; there was nothing said today that will stick long in the memory.

Interestingly, the Tory whips had planted a question which allowed Cameron to open the session by saying how keen he was to get Lords reform through. The intended message to the Lib Dems was: look, we really are trying on this.  But Cameron rather let slip his true feelings on the subject when he couldn’t help but chuckle when Bernard Jenkin asked him which was more important to the recovery of the British economy, a solution to the Eurozone crisis or Lords reform.