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A selection of lines from parliamentary sketch-writers.

The debate was dominated by the prime minister's admission that he had made a mistake in his evidence to the Iraq inquiry and the BA/Unite dispute.

the PM's revulsion at having to 'fess up to the way "a small child eats gristly beef - with great difficulty and with much resentment":

""When he does get it wrong, he has to find a way of saying that it wasn't really wrong wrong, more sort of right wrong."

, noting that an admittance of any kind of error from the prime minister is a rare event indeed:

"Until yesterday any Gordo retractions at PMQs were, like the dodo, mythical. So this was a once-in-a-lifetime event, like a double rainbow and Halley's Comet rolled into one. He looked miserable."

by Mr Brown's somewhat subdued mood so close to the general election:

"Had he been a specimen at Crufts you would have concluded that this sausage dog had a dry nose.
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"Just a couple of weeks ago the lava flowed from Mr Brown, red and molten. Yesterday he was no more volcanic than a mole hill."

that John Bercow's chosen style as Speaker has thrown up the issue of who calls time on his own increasingly lengthy interventions:

"His interventions have become comically long. His statement yesterday made a three-course meal out of a cupcake."

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