PMQs live blog | 16 March 2011

VERDICT: A more evenly-matched PMQs that we have been used to, with both leaders parrying and thrusting to some effect. Miliband’s chosen topic — the NHS — was a surprise, particularly given today’s unemployment figures and the persistent flurry of bad news from abroad. Yet it did open up a clear divide between him and Cameron. On one side, the Labour leader claiming that the the coalition is taking undue risks with a beloved health system. On the other, the PM painting Miliband as Brown Mark II, a roadblock to reform and change. Neither side really won, or lost, the argument today, but you can expect them to return to it in future. Much as you can expect the NO2AV campaign to return to that Ben Bradshaw quotation, so artfully highlighted by Bernard Jenkin, again and again and again.

1233:
And that’s it. My short verdict soon.

1229: A timely question the Tory MP Damian Collins, who asks whether Cameron agrees that nuclear power should be an important part of our energy make-up in future.