One has to have some sympathy for David Cameron. It cannot be pleasant to hear Christine Legarde, the head of the International Monetary Fund, tell Chancellor George Osborne that it is time for the government to introduce an economic Plan B at the very moment that the prime minister himself is telling the leaders of the eurozone to put their house in order. Although Ms Lagarde said some positive things about what the government has done so far she was quite clear that more is now needed. It is remarkable that there is no Plan B in place.
Mr Cameron was in tetchy mood at Prime Minister's Questions yesterday and the Speaker John Bercow rightly rebuked him for calling the Shadow Chancellor, Ed Balls, a muttering idiot. A while back he described Mr Balls as the most annoying person in modern policies so it is apparent he has got under the prime minister's skin.
What happened to the honourable gentleman opposite as a preliminary to a withering put-down? Even when it came to apologising yesterday to Labour MP Dennis Skinner for an earlier sharp response to a question from him, the prime minister should have done better then call him an ornament to the House of Commons. David Cameron is not a natural parliamentarian and that may one day count against him when he needs to master the House.
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