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A rather uneventful PMQs this week. Ed Miliband chose to split his questions, with the first set focusing on Liam Fox and his dodgy ‘advisor’ Adam Werritty, before moving on to attack the prime minister on the economy.

Miliband questioned Mr Cameron on how many businesses had benefitted from the regional development fund announced by the government 16 months previous. An answer was not forth coming from the prime minister so Miliband said that despite twenty press releases about the regional development fund only two companies had actually benefitted. The leader of the opposition said that with last weeks unemployment figures rising to the highest it has been since the last Tory government and yesterday’s inflation figures also rising to their highest since the previous Conservative administration it was time for Mr Cameron to change course on the economy but all we have is a ‘prime minister who is hopelessly out of touch’.

Cameron immediately got on the offensive and criticised the opposition leader for talking down the economy when and repeated the Tory line that the coalition government are clearing up the mess left behind by Labour. He also questioned that his opposite number does not have a plan of his own to deal with the economy. When the prime minister was defending the coalition government’s economic plan, the Shadow Chancellor, Ed Balls, continually drew a flat line with his hand before telling Mr Cameron to calm down.