George Osborne's attack on the chancellor's handling of the Northern Rock crisis seems not to have impressed his peers.
The collective view from the corridors of power is that it was the shadow chancellor and not Alistair Darling who came off worse following today's Commons statement.
The general consensus is that he simply "missed the target" and his response to the crisis has been "lightweight compared with Vince Cable".
The Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman, who became the star of PMQs when he was briefly acting party leader, was alone today in being able to tell the government "I told you so" on nationalisation.
