The Prime Minister was plainly wounded by the suggestion that he does not know how to behave.
The Prime Minister repeatedly condemned the official Opposition for being “enemies of aspiration”.
Plus: Ivan Massow – a joke. Greenhalgh and Boff – no charisma. Tulip Siddiq and Stephen Kinnock – impressive. And: Ben Harris-Quinney (for it is he)
But there were the first signs of animosity between Labour and the SNP.
Labour enjoyed making him sound like a Tory. But unlike them, he grasps that there can be no return to a pre-austerity past.
The Commons came together in defence of the Union, but John Redwood wanted to know who speaks for England.
But Labour just don’t get it. Despite all the evidence in favour of marriage, they’d prefer that Government remained indifferent.
The Coalition should junk this Harman legacy legislation and make the positive case for a meritocratic vision of fairness.
The Opposition just broke a golden rule of communications and gave the Tories a helping hand.
While new women smiled on the Treasury Bench, scattered about the Chamber were ex-ministers who imagined they could afford to think for themselves.
The Deputy Prime Minister has a loud bark but a thin skin.
“NCCL was an organisation where any organisation could pay their affiliation and join it.”
Compare the state of the nation today to how things were when I first became a Treasury Minister and it’s clear how far we’ve come.