PMQs: Ed Miliband urged to use good 'cheer lines'

From BBC News Online today [full article]:

Ed Miliband should use memorable "cheer lines" at prime minister's questions to ensure coverage on TV news bulletins, leaked advice to Labour's leader says.

A memo to Mr Miliband on what to do at the weekly session, seen by The Times, urges him to ask simple questions to make PM David Cameron look "evasive". It also stresses the importance of body language and enjoying the encounter.

Mr Cameron seized on it at Wednesday's session, saying his rival had "a plan for PMQs but no plan for the economy".

Mr Miliband faced the prime minister across the despatch box for the third time on Wednesday in an exchange dominated by the government's proposed reforms to housing benefit.

Read the whole BBC article - The Times' original publication of the leak is hidden behind their pay-for-access firewall - as an insight for Unit 2 into Prime Minister's Questions, parliamentary performance and the high profile of the Prime Minister as the focus of the executive branch of government.