Brown survives PMQs

Gordon Brown came out of that exchange better than I thought he would. He stayed calm and was actually doing very well until he tried blame the Tories, arguing that the Tory manifesto would have cut HMRC’s budget, and that gave David Cameron the opening the needed o deliver the scathing soundbite that will be replayed on the evening news. Then Cameron hit his stride, saying that Brown wants “to control everything but can’t run anything.” Overall, though, Brown will be relieved at how the exchange went—it could have been so much worse.