PMQs: Nick Clegg delivers a perfect Cameroon performance

Nick Clegg’s performance at PMQs reminded me of Field Marshall Bosquet’s verdict on the charge of the Light Brigade, ‘c’est magnifique, mais ce n’est pas la guerre’. After a week in which the Lib Dems have been busy trying to differentiate themselves from the Tories, Clegg turned up at PMQs and delivered an aggressive defence of everything that the government has done. Indeed, I’m struggling to think of anything that Clegg said from the despatch box today that Cameron would have disagreed with.

The session was also a reminder of the personal animosity between Clegg and the shadow Cabinet. Harriet Harman went for him over his party’s attitude to women, complete with reference to Clegg’s unfortunate GQ interview. Then, at the end of the session, Andy Burnham and Yvette Cooper lined up to give Clegg a kicking via points of order.

Clegg’s desire to return Labour’s partisan attacks with interest, he accused them of living in ‘cloud cuckoo land’ and claimed that a Labour backbencher’s question had been written by a trade union, were a reminder of just how much he detests them.