By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter Michael Howard wrote a good piece for yesterday's Times (£) in which he worried about the regulatory demands that the state is placing on the hospice movement. He was championing the same issue on this morning's Today programme. The ex-Tory leader was speaking as Chairman of Help the Hospices. […]
By Peter HoskinFollow Peter on Twitter Today’s session of PMQs began rather gently, even constructively. The subject that held sway was the military. Not only did David Cameron take time to wish our troops a Merry Christmas; not only did he announce that there will be medals for veterans of the Arctic convoy missions; but Ed […]
By Peter HoskinFollow Peter on Twitter First of all, today’s PMQs was an extremely rowdy and red-faced affair — even more so than usual. Questions had to be shouted over the din. Ed Miliband called David Cameron “the boy from the Bullingdon Club”, to cheers from his own side. Mr Cameron suggested that the Labour leader […]
By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter. Today's PMQs was lively, but was simply the warm-up act for the Autumn Statement that followed it. I will attempt not to detain you for long.
By Peter HoskinFollow Peter on Twitter Unsurprisingly, two subjects simmered to the fore in PMQs today: the Work Programme and tomorrow’s Leveson Report. The first of these occupied most of the exchange between David Cameron and Ed Miliband. The second emerged in backbench questions. So, let’s start with the leaders’ exchange, shall we? This promised to […]
By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter. PMQs returned this afternoon after the PPC and by-elections and a week of Nick Clegg filling in. The first third or so of the session this week was taken up by Ed Miliband and David Cameron agreeing with each other on Israel/Palestine's current conflict. The only moment of possible […]
By Peter HoskinFollow Peter on Twitter Drop Nick Clegg in front of the despatch box, and some remarkable transformations take place. The Labour benches start braying even more than usual. The Deputy Prime Minister gets angrier and angrier in return. And the Tory backbenches start to warm to this fellow who has it in for their […]
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By Peter HoskinFollow Peter on Twitter Europe, wind farms, Trident, boundaries — this Halloween edition of PMQs promised to be rather gruesome for David Cameron, and that’s how it seemed for the opening five minutes or so. The first question, from Andrew Stephenson, was about the EU Budget. And although it was one of those friendly […]
By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter. PMQs was predicted to be a lively affair today – and it was, but not necessarily for the reason anticipated. The Prime Minister's most probing questions came from the Leader of the Opposition, and not from his own backbenchers – who could have caused Mr Cameron some trouble on […]