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PMQs on Progress Articles

A mud-wrestle of a PMQs

Sometimes the problem with Twitter is that you call it too soon. Ex-Labour MP Tony McNulty got in trouble at today’s prime minister’s questions by tweeting halfway through, ‘Public desperate for PM in waiting who speaks for them – not leader of opposition indulging in...

Setting the agenda

In recent weeks, Ed Miliband has been setting the agenda, focusing on key issues including the rising cost of energy bills, the urgent need for regulation on payday lenders and the crisis in A&E. Today he stuck with this theme and asked David Cameron a simple...

Energy v the economy

Both sides of the House seemed to be in a rowdy, boisterous mood at the beginning of PMQs; early on, the speaker told the prime minister’s PPS to restrain himself. Two issues dominated the session: economic growth and energy prices. Tory and Labour MPs stuck...

Whistling in the wind

David Cameron was looking pretty Billy Bunterish today at prime minister’s questions, with a curl which kept trying to escape on his forehead. It was not his question time today. He kind of knew it wouldn’t be, and was trying very hard not to be petulant....