Welcome to this week’s Coffee House PMQs live blog. What to expect? Well, as always, there’s plenty for the party leaders to say on the economy – particularly in light of Cameron’s speech yesterday, and the news today that the economy may have shrunk by 1 percent in the 3 months to November. I’d be fairly surprised if welfare reform doesn’t feature as well.
1205: Here’s Gordon. Alison Seabeck starts: “Businesses and small businesses have welcomed the measures introduced during the downturn…” A question which lets Brown say “We will take action, [they Tories] would do nothing.”
1207: Cameron now. Returns to the theme of a few weeks ago: has the bailout freed up credit for small businesses? Brown slips up. He means to say: “We’ve not only saved the banks” but says “We’ve not only saved the world” instead. Much laughter from the Tory benches.
1209: Snappy retort from Cameron: “Well, it’s now on the record. He’s so busy thinking about saving the world, that he’s forgotten about small businesses in this country.” The
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