Was that PMQs? It felt more like the monthly meeting of a particularly soporific knitting circle. The last fixture before Christmas is usually full of mayhem and mischief but Gordon Brown is abroad this week taking his smirk on a tour of the east, so the understudies replaced the regular opponents. In the past Harriet Harman vs William Hague has been an electrifying bout but a sparsely populated house seemed to anticipate disappointment.
Hattie has got the feel for it by now. And Hague? He seems to have lost the feel for it. Or perhaps he deliberately underperformed so as not to overshadow his leader. His tactics were stunningly predictable. His half-hearted call for an inquiry into the Iraq war was easily dealt with. Sure, but not till the troops come home. Then he moved to the very point Dave laboured last week, the lending problems faced by small businesses.
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