Cameron rails against Brown at PMQs about him being disrespectful to armed forces senior ranks. Five days on, he still hasn’t been to the MoD website, where there is everything he needs to demolish the PM’s Chilcot evidence.

Brown is asked a PMQ by Norman Baker about disgraceful rises in rail fares. He answers by saying trains are more modern and more likely to be on time than ever.

On the BBC’s Daily Politics, Jacquie Smith is asked why UK troops get 80 helicopters per 5000 troops while US GIs get 120. Well she replies, together that makes 200 per 10,000.

24 hours into the news that Lord Paul is precisely the same sort of shadowy, sleazy nondom as Lord Ashcroft, not a single Tory has attacked him.

12 hours after revelations about Mandelson’s incompetent management of the DBIS, no Conservative voice is to be heard denouncing him.

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