Live coverage from 1200.
1201: And we’re off. The DUP’s Gregory Campbell asks what further assistance Brown can offer the devlved regions to help them during the recession. Brown: “We will continue to offer real help now”.
1203: Cameron kicks off: “A series of U-turns…”. Then asks whether these are “signs” that the “government is in terminally in decline”. Brown responds angrily, saying that Cameron doesn’t ask questions about the economy and reduces things to “personality”.
1205: Woah, this has become angry quickly. Cameron says that Brown doesn’t realise it is about him: “Your failure to reform public services; your failure to handle the deficit…” Brown reponds that the worst thing to do would be to “follow the Tories”.
1207: Cameron proceeds at a rat-a-tat pace. Now he’s reading extracts from Hazel Blears’ infamous YouTube article.
1208: Brown says that the biggest U-turn was Cameron reneging on his promise (and rightly so) to match the Government’s public spending.
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