PMQs sketch: Miliband gives up on Songs of Dispraise and attacks Cameron on competence

Goodness, he’s enjoying himself. Ed Miliband is brimful of confidence these days and he handles himself like a master juggler at PMQs. He flicks out deft gags and acerbic asides while keeping the central question in the air. He’s having fun. And it’s a pleasure to watch.

Greatly helpful to him is the government’s pledge to deliver at least one major and one minor cock-up every week. Last Wednesday it was Cameron’s improvised announcement that energy companies must give customers the lowest tariff. Today he tried to explain this. ‘There were 400 different energy tariffs last year,’ the PM told the Commons. ‘That’s totally baffling.’

‘The only people baffled,’ said Miliband. ‘were his ministers last week.’ Cameron countered that Miliband had presided over contradictory policies when he served as Gordon Brown’s energy secretary. Miliband was ready for him. He claimed to have cut our bills by £110 when he was in power.