Who won:

Though Ed Miliband didn’t win, David Cameron definitely lost it. It was a very dull PMQs dominated by tuition fees and mutual accusation of breaking manifesto pledges. David Cameron wasn’t really listening to the questions, and just attacked back rather than answering. He kept replying with the same line about Labour’s ‘organised hypocrisy’ for not supporting the government interpretation of the Browne review. He tried to underline the progressiveness of the new system, but – as Miliband rightly pointed out – Cameron himself is the only one still persuaded by that.

Miliband saved the game scoring a last minute point, when he retorted against the PM accusations of being a ‘student politician’. ‘Yes I was it – proudly admitted Ed – and was not hanging around with people throwing bread rolls and smashing up restaurants’. That was more direct and effective than any other attempt to describe the prime minister as unable to understand ordinary people’s concerns about higher education and social mobility.

Best backbencher:

Although not a backbencher, I still go for Emma Reynolds of Wolverhampton, who raised the question of her own constituency university’s future put at risk by budget cuts and higher fees. DC’s answer was that it is fair to ask student to contribute when they are successful, and ignored that probably Wolverhampton university won’t have any students in the future…

Best question, answer, comment or joke:

Certainly Labour MP Kerry McCarthy’s question about Morrissey banning Cameron liking him was one of the funniest moments, but I will pick instead Jack Dromey’s insinuation that Westminster may have been infiltrated by an imposter (referring of course to Nick Clegg, not the Lib Dem researcher arrested under the accusation of being a Russian spy). Dromey – like him or not – was sharp-witted and subtle, while DC’s reply about Dromey’s selection process and the suggestion that he should wear a skirt was coarse – no wonder old male conservative MPs were laughing at it!