DAVID Cameron yesterday made fun of Gordon Brown's evidence to the Leveson Inquiry.

The former prime minister raised eyebrows at Westminster when he suggested he had not told his former special advisers Charlie Whelan or Damian McBride to brief anonymously against people, dismissing the notion as "tittle-tattle".

During cross-examination, Mr Brown made clear that if they had engaged in such briefing "it would be without my knowledge and without my sanction".

In February 2010, Alistair Darling, the former Labour chancellor, famously recalled how, after he had described the financial crisis as the worst in 60 years, that the "forces of hell were unleashed against him".

At Prime Minister's Questions yesterday, Mr Cameron referred to "an extraordinary moment" during the Leveson Inquiry.

Quoting Mr Brown, the PM said: "'The one thing I can say definitely is that no one in my position would have instructed briefing against a senior minister.'"

At this point, Conservative benches erupted in laughter.

Later, when asked if the Prime Minister was accusing Mr Brown of lying under oath, an aide replied that he was simply making a point while his official spokeswoman, when asked why Mr Cameron had poked fun at the ex-PM, said: "I don't believe he did."