PMQs live blog | 12 January 2011

VERDICT: Woah. If you ever needed a PMQs to brush away the last morsels of festive cheer, then this was it. Every question and answer came laced with some sideswipe or other, and it made for a scrappy exchange between the two party leaders. Both struck blows against each other, but both were also guilty of errors and mis-steps. Miliband squandered an easy attack on bankers’ bonuses, even allowing Cameron to turn it back against Labour. While, for his part, the Prime Minister was so relentlessly personal that it came across as unstatesmanlike. I don’t think either one really emerged victorious, or well, to be honest. It was simply unedifiying stuff.

1230: And that’s the end of the first PMQs of 2011 – and what a heated one it was, too. My verdict shortly.

1226:
There you go. Cameron says that the union reforms implemented in the 1980s are “working well” – but he’s happy to “look at” some of ideas for curbing union militancy that the Mayor of London, among others, has proposed.