An angry David Cameron looks a little like a small (yet sinister) dragon who has never developed the ability to breathe fire, but tries all the same – in front of all his friends. And then just gets angrier and angrier because everyone laughs at him.

And we saw plenty of angry Dave today. It would be amusing if it wasn’t so terrifying that this man runs our country.

Who won?

Ed opened with Liam Fox. He questioned how Cameron had ‘known nothing’ for 18 months and he referenced a ‘network’ of funders for Werrity who have close links to the Conservative Party. Ed asked for a categorical guarantee that no other minister has been engaging in such activity. Ed was trying to prevent Cameron distancing himself from Fox’s decisions – and it worked.

Cameron responded with no guarantee and instead reeled off instances of past scandals involving Labour MPs. If he is looking to start drawing up a tally, then surely this is a game best avoided because we could just start looking back at the Major government, and no one wants that. But, in all seriousness, it was incredibly poor from Cameron to respond to important questions about potential wrongdoing in his cabinet by simply saying ‘oh, but you’ve done bad stuff too’.

Ed had a rattled Cameron cornered, and won this opening round by saying that Cameron doesn’t ask questions of those around him, so that then he can say it is not his fault – and he deftly brought Coulson in to the example as well.

Ed’s second line of attack was the economy. He highlighted that RPI is the highest since the last Tory government. Cameron came straight back to point out that CPI, the more commonly used measure of inflation, was only the highest since 2008. More point scoring from Cameron, perhaps inevitable with both figures released alongside each other, but again a complete failure to address the question. Ed stated that we have the highest inflation of any country in the EU except for Estonia – and Cameron had nothing to say to that.

Ed then moved on to the Regional Growth Fund, one of the Tories’ policies de jour. He scored a direct hit when he highlighted that 22 press releases had been issued on the fund, but that only two businesses have actually been helped by it – whereas 16,000 have gone bankrupt. Cameron clearly was not on top of the issue, and he floundered.

This was a clear win for Ed.

Best question?

There were a number of good questions today. In particular, it was good to see a question from Anna Soubry, MP for Broxtowe, on domestic violence in light of the damning report on Nottinghamshire police issued yesterday. It is an issue which does not get enough of politicians’ time, and sadly David Cameron’s response did nothing to suggest it would get any more. There was a good question from Pat Glass on the fall in college enrolments after the withdrawal of EMA, and there was an important question from Steve Rotheram on the fight for justice for the families of Hillsborough victims.

There were also two questions on knife crime, and the Tories’ failure to see through on their promise to send those caught carrying knives to jail.  The questions focused on an article today by Brooke Kinsella which talked about how a large number of knife offences are committed by those under 18 – whereas the law proposed by Cameron is for over-18s only.

Funniest moment?

Has to be Ed Balls (and then a chorus of Labour MPs) telling Cameron to calm down after he had angrily slapped the dispatch box.

Olivia Bailey is chair of Labour Students