David Cameron: no sympathy for the devil, Raoul Moat

Part of the art of the modern premiership is finding a way to insert yourself into a running news story and showing you're in touch with public opinion, expressing the views that (you hope) most voters hold. Sometimes, this is taken to ludicrous extremes: remember Tony Blair getting involved in some soap-opera stunt?

So far, David Cameron hasn't done anything so silly though some would argue his embrace of football during the World Cup was a bit transparent – does anyone have the PM pegged as a real footie fan?

Anyway, PMQs gave Mr Cameron a fairly easy way to get into the Raoul Moat story, which still dominates tabloid news coverage. Unsurprisingly, the PM is not in accord with those who apparently want to pay tribute to a man who killed one man and shot two others, blinding one of them.

Mr Cameron: "Raoul Moat was a callous murderer. Full stop. I cannot understand how there can be any public sympathy for him. There should be sympathy for his victims."