PMQs live blog | 27 October 2010

VERDICT: The housing benefit cuts inspired Ed Miliband’s chosen attack – and he deployed it quite effectively, with none of the unclarity that we saw last week. For the most part, though, Cameron stood firm – leaning on his favourite rhetorical stick, What Would Labour Do? – and his final flurry against Ed Miliband was enough, I think, to win him this encounter on points. But don’t expect this housing benefit issue to dissipate quickly. Bob Russell’s question was evidence enough of how tricky this could be for the coalition.

1232:
And that’s it. My quick verdict shortly.

1231: Bob Russell, a Lib Dem, says that housing benefit cuts are “not a laughing matter,” and urges the PM to reconsider the coalition’s position. Cameron agrees that this is a serious issue, and argues, as he that he did to MiliE, that a £20,000 cap will should not force people to be homeless.