PMQs today

Rather busy at the moment so just two points:

1) From the BBC summary:
"Mr Cameron asked if the chancellor's policies on inheritance tax and non-domiciles had been in the draft pre-Budget report written before the Conservative Party conference.

Mr Brown replied: "I think if he looks back to the summer at interviews given by the chancellor, he talked about these very issues. And I may say, we have raised the exemption on inheritance tax on ten occasions since 1997. We have dealt with tax avoidance in relation to non-domicile and non-resident on many occasions since 1997. And we are going to continue to make the right decisions for the country.""


I think every interviewwer from now on, not that I expect Gordon Brown to be interviewed by anyone with any backbone for a long time, should ask him that question and keep asking it.



2) The BBC have missed out any coverage of the EU Scrutiny question, I will get a transcript up here later today, but in the meantime... David Cameron asked a question about the EU Scrutiny Commitee saying "we do not consider that references to abandoning a 'constitutional concept' or 'constitutional characteristics' are helpful and consider that they are even likely to be misleading in so far as they might suggest the Reform Treaty is of lesser significance than the Constitutional Treaty. We believe that the Government must offer evidence if it is to assert that the processes are significantly different." Gordon Brown claimed they didn't say that. This should be quite easy to check, I have taken the words from the Committees report which you can read here. Where is Gordon Brown getting his information from?

UPDATE:
Transcript from Hansard reads as follows:
"Mr. Cameron: Nobody believes him. The Labour-dominated European Scrutiny Committee says that the EU treaty is “substantially equivalent” to the constitution. It says that pretending otherwise is “misleading”. When Labour MPs say this, why should anyone believe the Prime Minister?

The Prime Minister: Because I have the report here and it makes a distinction between the treaty— [ Interruption. ] Oh yes— [ Interruption. ] Well, if people want a debate about the future, they should read the full report. It makes a distinction between the treaty itself and its effect on Britain with the protocols, the opt-ins, the exemptions, the emergency brake and the veto."