PMQs as it happened - November 2, 2011

Once again it was a very disjointed PMQs for both David Cameron and Ed Miliband, apparently Twitterati to feel as if Milband almost surpassed the economy.

David Cameron's weak link seems to be that many of the initiatives introduced to support small businesses have yet to bear fruit, and Ed Miliband, seems willing to portray the PM as someone who is on the side of the bankers and the directors of the city rather than ordinary workers.

Commentators describe this week's PMQs as "local" because there was barely any mention of the Eurozone crisis that threatens to destroy both the Greek government and the deal reached last week to rescue the country.

But today we know if there is an agreement on public sector pensions - who has been deaf for months and could lead to more coordinated union strike in the final years of this month. PMQs Shortly after the First Secretary of the Treasury, Danny Alexander, announced a new offer to the unions. The background music behind the scenes is that unions can now take it or leave it.

The highlight was probably when the PM, naturally, spoke in support of the Archbishop of Canterbury, called a Robin Hood tax in the city. David Cameron said he agreed with that idea, but said that Dr Rowan Williams was speaking of people who felt a sense of injustice.