At Prime Minister's Questions, David Cameron welcomed the U-turn on TA cuts and challenged Gordon Brown over the economy.
After consistent questioning from Conservative MPs, Labour MPs and David Cameron himself at previous PMQs, Cameron welcomed "the Government’s complete U-turn on cutting £20 million from training in the Territorial Army".
"Can the Prime Minister tell us what on earth he was thinking of when he proposed to cut training of army reservists at a time when the country is at war?", he asked
Moving on to the economy, Cameron noted that Britain is now in the longest and deepest recession since records began and asked if the Prime Minister would "finally admit that he did not end boom and bust"?
He went on to point out that even before the recession, the UK "had one of the biggest budget deficits in the industralised world... we had a regulatory system which didn’t work... we had almost 5 million on out of work benefits... we had an unbalanced economy".
He concluded: "If he can’t be straight about how we got into this mess, why should anyone think he is the right person to lead us out of it?"