PMQs: MPs scrutinise Labour instead of the government

David Cameron didn’t have a particularly good PMQs today. He struggled to make sense at some points, ending up telling the House that ‘two out of three people who want to become a nurse can’t become a nurse because of the bursary system’ and rambling about ‘two out of three Vickys’ being turned away from nursing courses, which left everyone wondering what the stats were for people not called Vicky.

The Prime Minister’s assertion about the bursary system costing so much that fewer nurses overall go into training may well be true, in the same way that saying ‘affordable housing quotas make housing less affordable’ can be true in policy terms. But if you are going to make a statement that sounds like you’re saying ‘the problem with gravity is it makes it very difficult for people to keep their feet on the ground’, you need to be able to offer a reasonable explanation for why you think that.