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PMQs on Progress Articles

Christmas cards, turkeys and a tale of two countries

It was a somewhat lacklustre PMQs before the Christmas holidays. There were bad jokes about turkeys and Cameron's Christmas card list came in for some scrutiny, but there was not much cheer. It was a tale of two countries, one in which David Cameron and his MPs live...

‘Jobs for the girls’?

The shadow of women hung over prime minister’s questions more than normal. Usually the Tories manage to shut women out of the debate and subjects that might remotely touch on the opposite sex are rarely mentioned. Labour MP Stella Creasy (Walthamstow) was not going to...

Turning into a Tory

The main subject of debate at today’s prime minister’s questions, which was actually deputy prime minister’s questions as David Cameron is still in China, was whether Nick Clegg had turned into a Tory. Conservative Peter Bone (Wellingborough), the man who has...

PMQs fever

Death stalked prime minister’s questions today with serious illness and cancers the rather gloomy themes. Not that Ed Miliband asked about medical conditions once, though the entire Labour shadow frontbench was conspicuously wearing ribbons for World Aids Day this...