Peter Hoskin

PMQs live blog | 24 March 2010

Stay tuned for live coverage at 1200.  A Budget live blog will follow at 1230.

1201: And we’re off.  Brown starts with condolences for the fallen.  The first question from Mike Penning is a punchy one: when did the PM realise he “mislead” the Chilcot Inquiry?  Before or after?  Brown responds by pointing out that defence spending has risen in real terms over the last 12 years, if not every year.

1203: A planted question gives Brown to opportunity to list Labour’s “fairness measures”.  He says they would never have been put forward by George Osborne.

1204: Cameron starts by saying that he’d “like to clear up a few issues”.  Laughter from the Labour benches, for some reason.  He asks whether Brown would ask workers to “cross the picket line” outside the Treasury.

1205: Brown congratulates the Camerons on SamCam’s pregnancy.

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