Pumped-up Cameron takes pummelling on immigration 

David Cameron put in a confident, passionate performance tonight in his Question Time grilling. At one point the Prime Minister broke into a forceful rant about Winston Churchill deciding to carry on fighting the war, arguing that Britain shouldn’t quit now, either. It was clearly planned, in fact Cameron rather have the impression that someone in a remote control tower had flicked a switch and turned him into Passionate Orator Mode, a mode so unstoppable that he kept talking over David Dimbleby until he had finished his little speech. It was like a more pumped-up version of the ‘that’s what pumps me up’ speech of the General Election.

This might have been satisfying for the Prime Minister to deliver, and for his confirmed supporters to watch. But Cameron should not be satisfied with the way the programme went overall, because so much of it focused on immigration and Turkey’s accession to the EU.