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PMQs live blog

Harman v. Hague with Fraser Nelson from noon:

12:00 I’m still cross with William Hague for pitching up at that Lake Como villa at the Barclays Wealth shindig that was in the papers before he left. Utter idiocy. Sure, he arrived on its last day to accompany his wife who works there. But his political instincts should have told him to stay a million miles away, when the event got in the tabloids as a fat cat extravaganza. So his stand-up comedy at PMQs had best be good today.

12:05 Hague back again on Chapter 11, this time with FSB backing “would save thousands of jobs from going under”.

“Nor should he write our economy off” – Harman has obviously been briefed this line by No10 as a catch-all when Tories attack.

12:07 Moves on from insolvency to pensioners forced to buy annuity. Aye, the voting power of the grey electorate. This may be smarter territory if the annuities issue blows up. 

12:10 Actually, Harman is using Brown jargon – meaningless guff.

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