David Blackburn

PMQs Live Blog | 9 December 2009

Stay tuned for live coverage from 1200.

12:01: And we’re off with the butcher’s bill, remembering the 100th British servicemen to be killed in Afghanistan this year.

12:02: Robert Neal points out that Spain isn’t in the G20 and hasn’t been in recession as long as Britain – is the rain in Spain mainly in his brain.

Brown responds by saying that he invited the Spanish Prime Minister to the G20 meetings, so Spain was for all intents and purposes as member of the G20. He’s hasn’t wriggled out of that.

12:05: Here’s Cameron. He’s on Afghanistan – this is effectively our last chance, can we await for every element of the strategy to be in place?

Brown is clear that everything is inplace and the troops are properly supported and Brown gives a few Hummvie stats t oback him up.

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