* GOOD news on economic growth spiking the guns of those saying the cuts have been too deep and too fast.

It has also confounded those who were predicting a double-dip recession.

We are now into the first year of the Darling Plan which, had Labour still been in office, would have made cuts not that far short of those now going through.

* David Cameron told MP Angela Eagle to “Calm down, dear,” the words of Michael Winner, which led to much huffing and puffing from the PC brigade opposite.

But Ms Eagle was being more than usually shouty at Prime Minister’s Questions.

The substantive point the PM was making came from Dr Howard Stoate, sometime MP and now a GP having lost his seat a year ago.

He is highly enthusiastic about the current health reforms, as are medics I talk to, confounding the opposition’s assertion that healthcare professionals oppose them.

* It was good to hear David Cameron call Andrew Lansley a magnificent Health Secretary at Prime Minister’s Questions.

There are few with a more comprehensive knowledge and understanding of the way the NHS works than Andrew, and I know how much he cares about health. The unfortunate truth is that Britain’s healthcare outcomes fall short of those in comparable countries. We cannot sit back and do nothing about it.

* I worry that only those who want a change to improve party political fortunes who have not thrived under the current system will be motivated to turn out – and that the AV change will sneak through as a result. All Conservative and the majority of Labour MPs say “No” to AV. Only Nick Clegg’s Lib Dems are united in wanting to fiddle with the voting system.