PMQs snapshot: Tory comrades confused over jeering tactics When Mr Miliband read this out, Mr Cameron's MPs, or comrades, didn't seem to know how best to respond: normally they'd all jeer, but now they couldn't do so without looking as if they were simple droids, vacuously following the memo's orders. Yet by not jeering they'd in effect be admitting the Labour leader had scored a hit. Confusion hung over them, like a cloud. Mr Cameron, hastily adopting an expression of matey, water-off-a-duck's-back jocularity, bounced up to insist that among Tories, "comrades" was merely a facetious "term of endearment." Quick thinking there from the Supreme Leader. On the question of an independent investigation, Mr Cameron quoted from a letter he'd had from Sir Alex Allan. Essentially, Sir Alex seemed to be saying he saw no need at this stage to investigate Mr Hunt because he didn't think he could "usefully add to the facts" we already knew. If Sir Alex is at all interested in adding to the facts, might not he able to do so by, say, carrying out an investigation? Only a thought. While all this was going on, Mr Hunt sat on the front bench, looking for the most part fairly untroubled. That's the spirit, Comrade.