Has Dave worked out a way of dealing with Brown blanking him out?

One of the ways that Brown sought to dominate the media coverage after his first PMQs in July was to make an announcement in answer to a question – thus diverting media attention away from his performance and that of David Cameron.

So we saw the news on the casino re-think and cannabis come out in answers to friendly Labour MPs and there was fairly coverage of the weekly battled with the opposition leader.

In those days Gordon could do nothing wrong and everything was reported in glowing terms. Now his honeymoon is over and the media is much more sceptical about his every move.

Mike Smithson