Peter Hoskin

PMQs live blog | 10 February 2010

Stay tuned for live coverage from 1200.

1200: And we’re off, bang on time.  First question on Labour’s elderly care plans.  Brown delivers a load of platitudes about how the government is committed to better care.  Even adds that he hopes for cross-party backing.

1201: Cameron now.  He leads on elderly care plans too – and how they will be funded.  With a nod to a letter in today’s Times, he adds that people who will have to implement it thinks its disastrous.

1202: Brown’s on fiesty, if typically disingenous, form.  He says that he “knows how [Cameron] likes personality politics”.  His substantial point, though, is that the Tories supported the Bill in the Commons.

1205: Cameron effectively repeats the point with his second question.  Brown effectively repeats his answer, with added references to “U-turns”.

1206: Ah, here’s the poster now.  Brown says the Tories will have to “bring down” last night’s poster because it is wrong.

1206: Despite that, Cameron replies quite convincingly: “We simply want to know where the money is coming from”.

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