Today’s Prime Minister’s Questions was not a good one for David Cameron, but it could have been a great deal worse. With a U-turn on minimum pricing on the cards and open dissent in the Cabinet and on the backbenches, the PM arrived knowing he’d have his back up against the wall, even though Ed Miliband has struggled to make effective attacks on big issues in the last few weeks.
The Labour leader had some good jokes, too. His opening line – ‘in the light of his U-turn on alcohol pricing, can the PM tell us, is there anything he could organise in a brewery?’ – was particularly good, and set the tone for the rest of the exchanges. He also referred to Home Secretary Theresa May’s leadership ambitions and open disunity in the Tory party, which Cameron tried to deflect with a joke about being thrilled that the Labour leader and his frontbench were in place.
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