Call of Duty EDM
While we're waiting for PMQs we thought we'd share this Early Day Motion with you... MPs - mostly Labour ones - upset about the latest edition of 'Call of Duty', with Home Affairs Commitee chair Keith...
View ArticleFirst question from Andrew Bingham
Pm starts by paying tribute to the fallen soldiers and to Alan Keen MP who died last week. Tory MP Andrew Bingham calls on PM to condemn next week's strikes. PM agrees, calling the strikes "the height...
View ArticleEd Miliband Q1
The Labour leader - who seems to have a cold - pays tributes to the fallen solidiers, plus Alan Keen MP. It's triggered a by-election in west London which Labour really can't afford to lose. His first...
View ArticleEd Miliband Q2
Ed Miliband says youth unemployment never hit 1 million under Labour. Now he wants to know how many jobs Cameron has created since June. PM: the Work Programme is helping 20,000 young people this year....
View ArticleEd Miliband Q3
...accuses the PM of lots of bluster and claims that youth unemployment has shot up since June despite the work programme. It's gone up from 80,000 to 130,000 in a quarter. He calls on the PM to use a...
View ArticleEd Miliband Q4 + the Ed Balls hand gesture.
Tories jeer further as Miliband accuses the PM of playing politics with young people's jobs. Miliband says the PM was warned that cutting too fast would make it harder to get the deficit down. PM says...
View ArticleEd Miliband Q5.
Miliband says Cameron has broken his promises on the economy and it all shows that the Autumn Statement should be a chance to change course. PM says there isn't a single other mainstream party in...
View ArticleEd Miliband Q6
It's the "out of touch" line to round off from Miliband. Unless the PM changes course, he will consign 1m young people to constant unemployment. PM finishes by saying that the IMF and the governor of...
View ArticleRichard Ottoway on Strike ballot turnouts.
Should there be a minimum threshold for strike action, given the big unions only had turnouts of about 30%' and only about 1 in 5 voted in favour? PM says its not surprising that Labour won't condemn...
View ArticleTory MP Simon Kirby
Given the government has frozen Council Tax again, why are the Green party in Brighton and Hove trying to put it up? PM says government money can go to council tax freezes, but it's up to councils how...
View ArticleMalcolm Wicks (lab) on Northern Rock
Says the Northern Rock saga is lamentable because over the years a mutual has become a bank, then a nationalised bank, and now sold off to Virgin Money, which apparently is "brash". PM says people...
View ArticleChris Bryant (Lab) on long-term unemployed.
Asks the PM whether every young person out of work after 6 months should be "guaranteed" a job, because long term unemployment is mentally scarring. PM agrees being jobless is bad for mental health,...
View Article@louisemensch on the strikes
The Tory MP asks if it's okay for parents to bring their kids to work on strike day. PM : where its safe to help people by bringing children to work, employers should do so.
View ArticleStewart Jackson on Thomas Cook
Should people keep booking their holidays with Thomas Cook? PM: he has asked for a report on the company. He does not agree that people should Thomas Cook it.
View ArticleCam: I am huge supporter and fan of the NHS
He's been accused of entering government to a healthy NHS, now being damaged. PM says mixed sex wards are down 90% since they came to power. (thery've been rising recently though)
View ArticleThat's it... Final score?
Again it wasn't great for Ed Miliband. What the TV cameras never show is Miliband after he's asked his questions. This week he sits there, watching the PM answer the rest of his questions and you can't...
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