Yesterday (27 July 2014) Ed Miliband announced to the world his idea that the public should be given their own Prime Ministers Questions (PMQs) to bridge the gap between the public and Westminster, for full details of the proposal click here . I am very much in favour of bridging the gap between the public and Westminster but I am incredibly sceptical about whether allowing the public into Westminster to ask questions would actually achieve this or be necessary. The first reason for this is that in Britain we have a democratically elected government, with MPs who represent us in Parliament. Therefore, the existing PMQs should already be a channel for the public to get their MPs to voice local issues to the Prime Minister (PM). This would mean that a public PMQ would be duplicating the existing PMQs. Secondly, how would members of the public be selected to go to the public PMQs. With often fast moving issues, it would not necessarily be possible to apply in advance to ask ...