PMQs: Miliband and Cameron attack on each other’s weaknesses, not the issues

Both Ed Miliband and David Cameron turned up to PMQs today wanting to expose the flaws in their opponent’s character.

First, Ed Miliband taunted the Prime Minister about Labour’s new private rented sector policy. Now that Labour is producing policies which seem to have purchase with voters, the Labour leader has what some might describe as the ‘intellectual self-confidence’ to kick off PMQs not just with a Labour policy rather than a government cock-up, but also predict that the government will eventually concede that Labour has a point. He said:

‘On our proposal for three-year tenancies in the private sector, can the Prime Minister tell us when he expects to make the inevitable journey from saying they represent dangerous Venezuelan-style thinking to saying they’re actually quite a good idea?’

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The Prime Minister replied that ‘if there is an opportunity to find longer-term tenancy agreements, to give greater stability, a proposal made at last year’s Conservative conference, then I’m sure we can work together.