IT was, as Speaker Bercow noted, "a wall of noise".

But before we got to the ritual up yours, yahboo sucks, hand-to-hand combat, there was a brief moment of shared camaraderie between Red Ed and Blue Dave thanks to that surly Scot turned Great Briton Sir Andrew Murray.

After the PM congratulated Andy on becoming the first "British player" in 77 years to win Wimbledon, there were some quizzical looks from Labour's female frontbenchers.

It was left to Ed to point out how, in his praise for the Scots tennis champion, Andy's fantastic achievement had followed that of Virgina Wade's 36 years ago.

The crimson tide arrived early as Ed asked how much hedge funds had given the Tories. Dave, veins throbbing in his forehead, blasted that every Conservative donation was published but the real scandal was union vote-fixing in Falkirk. As the barracking continued, the PM said: "They're paid to shout and they're doing nothing about it."

Ed, noting how the Tory headboy had not answered his question – the answer was £25m – he asked if it was a coincidence the Chancellor gave those nice hedge funds a not insignificant £145m tax cut in the budget.

Not answering the question again – perhaps it should be renamed Prime Minister's Non-Answers – Dave declared top taxes were higher under this Government than the last Labour one. Seeking the high moral ground – always tricky – Dave said donations to Labour bought votes at conference, candidates and the leader .

The chief comrade, standing on his tip toes, sought to grab that high moral ground, declaring how the difference was that Labour was funded by donations of 6p a week from ordinary people against a party funded by a few millionaires at the top.

After the Speaker intervened yet again, Dave said the reality was £8m from Unite, £4m from GMB and £4m from Unison. "They bought the policies, they bought the candidates and they bought the leader."

In a final hurrah, Ed challenged Dave to cap donations at £5000 a year but the PM said this would imply the public funding parties and he did not want a trade union scandal meaning "every taxpayer in the country paying for Labour", saying trade unions owned Labour "lock, stock and block vote".

But the Labour leader was not done and responded by accusing the PM of "ducking reform" and blasted, to Labour cheers, that the Tories were "owned by a few millionaires at the top of society".

After last week's drubbing, Ed had found redemption on party funding but after a heated rally that would have done Andy Murray proud it was time for everyone to retire to a darkened room with a cool drink.