Ed Miliband’s first PMQs: how did he do?

Good debut by Ed Miliband, raising the tempo and volume more than I expected. A slightly vicar-ish quality when he started, piano, then he got more strident raising the volume as he went on.

David Cameron pressed the “he’s the trade unions’ man” button and said he’s “not red, it’s Brown.”
When Ed Miliband said on Child Benefit “I’m not defending the rich” (he went on to say I’m defending deputy head teachers and police inspectors) he was saying something it would’ve been hard for Gordon Brown to say.

Ed Miliband got Nick Clegg laughing along with others at his joke about how the PM might’ve preferred the threatened BBC strike to go ahead during his Conference to obscure the Child Benefit announcement.

David Cameron confirmed in a later answer that all the criteria governing the Winter Fuel Allowance will survive the Spending Review.