PMQs sketch: Miliband turned Cameron's flooding fraud into a faux pas

Earlier this week David Cameron threatened the Lib Dems with divorce. Today, two of their senior figures offered to kiss and make up. Sir Alan Beith and Sir Bob Russell, bearing their knighthoods like dented old battle-shields, made their overtures at PMQs. Each of these leathery old libertarians seems to have discovered his inner Tory.

Sir Alan went first. He invited Cameron to slap down rogue Anglicans who dare to criticise welfare reform.

‘There’s nothing moral about pouring more borrowed money into systems that trap people in poverty,’ he said.

Cameron accepted Sir Alan’s invitation for a waltz. Greeting him as ‘a ‘distinguished churchman himself’, the prime minister praised his stance and quoted George Carey, a former Archbishop of Canterbury, who also supports the benefit squeeze.