Dave dodged the opportunity to ask Google supremo Eric Schmidt about his company’s commendable methods of legally maximising their shareholders’ profits when the pair met yesterday. Surely tomorrow Ed will keep his own promise and grill Schmidt about Google’s tax bill, when he is a guest of honour and keynote speaker at their Big Tent tech conference in Hertfordshire.

Presumably he won’t be repeating Margaret Hodge’s line about how Google “do evil” to his generous hosts, however…