PMQs: Cameron canters home

David Cameron cantered home at PMQs today. Armed with both good employment numbers, praise from Obama and the IMF for the UK economy and the delay in publication to the Chilcot Report, he held off Miliband with ease. The Labour leader, so feisty last week, seemed oddly listless today, getting animated only when he accused Cameron of running scared of TV debates. Cameron, by contrast, seemed to be enjoying himself. He even found time to mock Miliband’s disastrous stint as a house guest in Doncaster, as chronicled in the Mail on Sunday at the weekend.

Perhaps, though, the most significant moment of the session came right at the end when Nigel Dodds, the deputy leader of the DUP, asked if Cameron would maintain defence spending at 2% of GDP if re-elected. It sounded very much like Dodds was laying down one of the conditions for DUP support in a hung parliament.