Peter Hoskin

PMQs Live Blog | 28 October 2009

Stay tuned for live coverage from 1200.

1159: Still waiting for the main event.  You can watch it here, by the way.

1203: And we’re off.  Brown starts by paying tribute to British troops in Afghanistan, as well as aid workers killed in Kabul

1204: First question from Stephen Hepburn on whether pleural plaque victims will get compensation.

1205:
Here’s Cameron now.  As expected, he leads on Brown’s embarrassing U-turn of TA cuts; an issue the Tories have been pushing for the past couple of weeks.  Cameron asks hopw Brown could have thought about cutting training during wartime.

1206: Strange.  Brown responds by repeating his condolences – it’s basically a carbon copy of his opening statement.  Seems like he’s using it to defuse Cameron’s point.

1207: Brown’s response is that he’s taken another look at the numbers and decided that … yada, yada, yada.

1208: Cameron’s going for the jugular, saying that the Opposition forced the government’s hand. 

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