David Blackburn

PMQs Live Blog | 25 November 2009

Stay tuned for live coverage from 1200.

12:03: Here we go. Brown gets things underway with the weekly Butcher’s Bill and remembrance of those killed or otherwise affected by the floods in Cumbria.

12:06: And here comes Cameron – he follows Brown’s thanksgiving lead. Cameron asks how quickly temporary bridges across the Derwent in Cumbria can be constructed. Brown doesn’t know as yet as he and the Secretary of State await an engineers report. Brown adds that all costs will be met by the Department of Environment.

Cameron wants eveything that can be done for those affected be done. Brown rambles and says he will do everything he can and lists a host of new tractor stats about electricity and landlords. All very welcome information for those affected

12:10: Cameron wants to know if Hizb ut-Tahrir, a particularly horrendous Islamic extremist group, have recieved any public money? Oh dear, correspondance between Ed Balls and one of his ministers proves that Hizb ut-Tahrir have founded a school. Profoundly embarrassing for Brown and the government. Brown is shifting around. You can tell how desperate he is – here’s the line about the vast majority of Muslims in this country are law abiding peaceful people and that Cameron should wait for the report and the evidence. Cameron seems to have the evidence already.

The government doesn’t have a grip on Islamic extremism is Cameron’s line and he wins.

12:17: Nick Clegg – Iraq, the Lib Dems favourite dated bugbear. Clegg wants the Chilcot inquiry’s findings to be published in full except for those issues pertaining to national security. This is interesting, Clegg’s got a piece of paper from the government to the inquiry stating 9 separate criteria under which findings can be supressed, not all of them, Clegg claims, seem terribly serious.

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