PMQs review: Sunak and Starmer need to grow up
Government scrutiny is being lost in the attempt to score rhetorical points.
ByGovernment scrutiny is being lost in the attempt to score rhetorical points.
ByIn attacking the Prime Minister on pensions and National Insurance, the Labour leader missed the open goal.
ByHer attempt to focus on the Conservatives’ U-turn on banning no-fault evictions was no match for the gift of political…
ByMeg Hillier, chair of the Public Accounts Committee: Britain isn’t corrupt, it’s incompetent.
ByThe Prime Minister cannot flush his predecessor away – and Labour is taking advantage.
ByKeir Starmer pins the Prime Minister into hopeless contortions over Conservative scandals.
ByThreats against parliamentarians are an indictment of parts of the pro-Palestine movement – but the democratic process must be preserved.
ByAllowing the lordly Foreign Secretary to enter the House would set a risky precedent for democratic accountability.
ByJames Bagge, a former high sheriff of Norfolk, is contemplating standing against the ex-PM.
ByOnline sleuths will inevitably accuse the wrong people. Better to name the subjects of investigations.
ByPoliticians can now have fully fledged political careers that still end about 25 years before they’re due to retire. What…
ByThe committee’s report on “interference” by MPs is an assertion of strength by an institution under attack.
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ByTo win over the country, the Prime Minister has to risk upsetting his party.
ByAn unrepresentative membership has shifted the party’s centre firmly to the nationalistic and authoritarian right.
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ByWhy the Tories were routed in rural England.
ByThe former PM’s response to the Privileges Committee report on partygate is an insult to the public and parliament.
ByWith the country displaying a strong anti-Tory mood, neither Keir Starmer nor Ed Davey is ruling out an electoral pact…
ByOur new Carolingian age is taking us back to the 17th century.
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