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PMQs on Progress Articles

Battlelines drawn

The battlelines for the next election were more clearly drawn today than they have ever been. Labour’s key point is that, even if there is a recovery, only the rich will really benefit and most of Britain won’t feel it. This is why Ed Miliband asked again and again...

Knocking Cameron off his stride

When Miliband picks a subject now you realise that it is going to run for the rest of the week, and that Labour will be setting the agenda on it. It may not be yet translated into personal Miliband points but it shows an ability to be in touch that will get harder and...

Bully boy Cameron

It is difficult to be leader of the opposition at prime minister’s questions. You ask about the right things and you just get batted away with a string of meaningless facts and figures, which you know are only half-truths. Ed Miliband’s technique is to ask questions...

Floods and fires and sinking plans

It was a subdued prime minister's questions today. Not only had a serviceman, Captain Richard Holloway, been killed in Afghanistan just before Christmas, but only an hour or so earlier the death had been announced of the Labour member of parliament Paul Goggins...