Peter Hoskin

PMQs live blog | 3 March 2010

Stay tuned for live coverage from 1200.

1201: And here we go.  Obviously, with Brown meeting Zuma, it’s the deputies today. Harman starts with condolences for the fallen.

1202: Incidentally, Cameron is being interviewed on TalkSport radio, if you want to listen to that.

1203: First question: why manufacturing has fallen under Labour. Harman says that this is the Tories “talking the country down”. Hm. Easier than actually answering the question, I suppose…

1204: This PMQs is already getting noisily partisan.  A second question brings some “do nothing Tories” innuendo from Harman.  Jeers and cheers all round.

1206: Hague now.  His first question is whether Brown was wrong to cut the helicopter budget.

1207: Harman responds with some platitudes about being “committed” to the armed forces.  Hague says he wasn’t questioning that, just whether a “mistake” was made with the helicopter budget.

1208: Harman stumbles and calls Hague the “foreign secretary”. 

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