PMQs: A rather grumpy, unedifying session

Talking about energy bills week in, week out might be good politics for both parties, but it sure does make for a grumpy PMQs session. David Cameron was still rather ratty this week, but he managed some better attacks on Miliband than he’s done in the past few weeks of the great energy debate. He tried to pin the blame for the current state of the energy market on Miliband, saying:

‘Who gave us the Big Six? Yes, when Labour first looked at this, there were almost 20, but because of his stewardship we’ve ended up with six players.’

He also accused the party of pushing for yet more price rises now, with the Lords vote that Robert Halfon wrote about for us yesterday. His best line was that Miliband was ‘hiding behind this economically illiterate policy because he can’t talk about the economy because it’s growing, he can’t talk about unemployment because it’s falling, he can’t talk about the deficit because it has come down, he’s got nothing else to say, he’s just a weak leader with no ideas’.