Parliamentary Sketch: Prime Minister’s Question time, Wednesday April 2 2008
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
The murmuring is upbeat and expectant. It is like walking into a classroom to discover that your maths teacher is off sick, and the replacement they’ve brought in specialises in musical comedy. It shouldn’t feel like that - of course, it should be the serious business of parliamentary debate - but judging by the buoyant noises that greet this afternoon’s stand-ins, it does.
The Labour deputy leader, (the correct and appropriate position for this task) Harriet Harman, who wasn’t really having a good week already - was, it was announced at the last minute, facing recognised middle-weight debating champion, the shadow foreign secretary, William “Bruiser” Hague.