PMQs As It Happened - 2 November 2011

PMQs Live: All The Colour From The House Of Commons

Once again it was a fairly desultory PMQs for both David Cameron and Ed Miliband, with the Twitterati seeming to feel as though Milband just about edged it on the economy.

David Cameron's weak link seems to be that many of the initiatives he's introduced to support small businesses have yet to bear fruit, and Ed Miliband seems keen to portray the PM as someone who's on the side of the bankers and the City directors rather than ordinary workers.

Commentators described this week's PMQs as "parochial" because there was barely any mention of the Eurozone crisis which threatens to demolish both the Greek government and the deal achieved last weekend to bail the country out.

But later today we might find out if there's been a deal over public sector pensions - which has been rumbling on for months and could lead to the largest co-ordinated union strike action in years later this month. Shortly after PMQs the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander, announced a revised offer to the unions. The mood music behind the scenes is that the unions can now take it or leave it.

The highlight was perhaps when the PM, unprompted, spoke out in support of the Archbishop of Canterbury, who's called for a Robin Hood tax on the City. David Cameron didn't say he agreed with that idea, but he did say that Dr Rowan Williams was speaking for people who felt a sense of injustice.

Here are the highlights from this week's PMQS:

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