This was the last PMQs before the recess, and the Tory side of the House was in an end of term mood. When Harriet Harman stood up, the Tory benches enthusiastically beckoned her over — a reference to the anger in Labour circles at her openness to Tory plans to limit child tax credits to two children for new claimants.
But Harman turned in a decent performance in her penultimate PMQs outing. She asked Cameron about the Greek crisis and drew some rather loose-lipped talk from him about how if Greece left the Euro, the UK would be prepared to assist with humanitarian aid. I suspect this answer won’t have gone down too well in Brussels, but given some of the other things being said by European leaders at the moment I suspect it won’t cause as much irritation as it would have done a month ago.
Harman then moved on to the Budget where they sparred over the figures, in a relatively even exchange.
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