PMQs: David Cameron’s attack on Miliband’s U-turns

David Cameron and Ed Miliband arrived in the Chamber for Prime Minister's Questions this week each clutching a sheaf of notes about different topics. Miliband wanted to get angry about the Accident and Emergency row. Cameron wanted to tease Labour about its flip-flops on welfare policy. PMQs is supposed to be a spontaneous exchange where the leader of the Opposition prods and provokes the Prime Minister on issues of his choice, but today's performance was just that: a performance, and a scripted one at that.

Cameron managed to get his first line about Labour and benefits in before Ed Miliband had even asked a question, tagging it onto a response to Rushanara Ali. He said:

'The very first time the leader of the Opposition came to that despatch box he attacked me for taking child benefit away from higher earners and yet today we learn that it is now Labour's official policy to take child benefit away from higher earners.