Was this the day Ed Miliband lost the election?
Only two PMQs remain before polling day and the Labour leader used all six questions to ask David Cameron one thing: when might he ask him more questions? Nothing on policy. Nothing on convictions. Just questions about questions.
He meant questions outside the House, of course. On telly. That’s the difference, according to Labour. A televised head-to-head debate is nothing like parliament.
Except that PMQs is a televised head-to-head debate.
To quiz the PM about quizzing the PM is hardly the tactic of a confident popular leader about to sweep to power.
But Miliband had made a calculation. Previously, Cameron had offered unequivocally to take on the Labour leader at any time. Now he’s changed his mind. So Miliband can portray Cameron as a scaredy-cat.
At a cost, though. And he paid that in full today.
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