It never happened. That’s what happened at PMQs today. Westminster fans tuned in expecting to see the ugly moment when MPs would start accusing each other of playing politics with dead babies.
Instead it was a live baby – Prince George – who got all the attention. David Cameron wished ‘a happy and healthy life’ to the royal rug-rat. Then up stood Ed Miliband. The Tories cheered and jeered at him with ironic savagery. Clearly, he was about to be rinsed in the Westminster car-wash. He glared at the government benches wearing his favourite expression of indignant grandeur. If only it made him look like a leader rather than like a stoned postman who’s turned up to work on a bank holiday.
His questions were all softies. He asked about Syrian refugees, about the G20, about the talks in Geneva. In reply David Cameron wielded a pillow instead of a machete. (Had they arranged the love-in beforehand?).
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