Welcome to Coffee House’s live blog of PMQs today. As always, things will kick off at 1200, so stay tuned from then.
1204: Here’s the Dear Leader. After condolences, he gives a welcome to President Obama: “The stress that President Obama places on action…” First question from Douglas Carswell, and it’s an important one: “Why is the PM whipping his MPs when it comes to revealing details of MPs’ expenses.” Brown claims that the Government wants to introduce more transparency – or trans-pair-ancy, as he puts it.
1207: Brown: Holocaust Memorial Day will be commemorated by a debate in the House next Thursday.
1208: Cameron’s up now. Echoes Brown’s good wishes for Obama. Then leads on today’s grim economic stats. “Does the PM recognise that the public and the markets have no confidence in his measures…” Surprise, surprise; Brown mentions Obama in his response, saying that he’s following the British fiscal stimulus plan. Brown: “Obama didn’t say: ‘My fellow Americans, let’s do nothing.
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