Sally Gimson Articles

It was the last prime minister’s questions of the year and there was no sign of festive cheer. David Cameron’s team had been using Christmas to think up cheap jibes. The best they could come up with is that it would be like ‘Silent Night’ for Labour members of...

Ed Miliband rather effectively made the argument at prime minister’s questions about why David Cameron should be kicked out of office. Cameron breaks his promises. By the standards Cameron set himself he has failed. He has not eliminated the deficit, raised living...

The best line of today’s prime minister’s questions came from Jamie Reed, Labour member of parliament for Copeland. ‘The first thing I think of when I see a white van is whether it is my father or brother driving it.’ It was a rebuke to the Tories opposite who had...

Ed Miliband showed the prime minister up as someone more interested in abuse than governing today. The Labour strategy was to go on the attack, defending the proposed mansion tax and condemning the bedroom tax. It was as if, for the first time in a while, Miliband...