Bath scrum-half Michael Classens was sin-binned for a cynical offence at the breakdown and Banhan followed him five minutes later for tackling Murphy without the ball.
In 1994, proposals to construct two incinerators in his hometown of Lucca led to him focusing his efforts on the issue of tackling the growing problem of waste.
One reason for his slippage is that the prime minister has spent much of the past few months trying to wangle legislation that would get him out of his many legal difficulties rather than tackling the effects of the recession.
But that said, Mr Miliband did go some way to tackling one of the questions that have been hanging above his head: could voters imagine him as prime minister?