Stay tuned for coverage from 12:00. After a torrid month of self-inflicted wounds, this is a battle Cameron has to win.
12:01: And we’re off. Brown remembers the two soldiers killed in Afghanistan recently.
12:02: Question about £50,000 for the Prime Minister’s office. Brown says it’s the first he’s heard of it.
12:03: It’s Jacqui Smith with a plant about whose crime figures are less dodgy… I can’t yawn because she’s rather shrill.
12:04: Cameron opens with the revelations about Brown underfunding the Iraq war. Good start. Brown merely garbles on about year on year.
Cameron then lists the testimony against Brown’s defence. Brown can only respond with a joke about the Tories’s spending mistakes and highlights Tory cuts on Defence at the 2005 election.
Cameron says that Brown ignored the needs of soldiers until it became politcally expedient, and quotes a ream of Defence Chiefs who support him.
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