Rishi Sunak’s first PMQs exposes his political vulnerabilities
The Prime Minister struggled to defend the reappointment of Suella Braverman and his boast that he took public money out…
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Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) is a constitutional convention whereby the prime minister answers questions from opposition MPs, held every Wednesday at noon while parliament is sitting. The practice of the prime minister taking questions at fixed times of the week was introduced by Harold Macmillan in 1961, on the recommendation of the House of Commons’ Procedure Committee, though the format has changed several times since then.
Liz Truss survived PMQs, but all she has done is buy herself time
The ashen faces of Conservative MPs today suggest they know it's a matter of when she goes, not if.
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Liz Truss U-turns and fudges through her second PMQs
The Prime Minister has only two options: impose deep spending cuts, or ditch the mini-Budget.
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The coming autumn crisis
The new government faces a national emergency. If it responds accordingly, the Conservatives could yet remain in power.
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PMQs today: Liz Truss’s ideological dividing lines could be a gift to Labour
The Prime Minister’s performance was confident but her opposition to a windfall tax puts her in dangerous territory.
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Keir Starmer prepares to take on Liz Truss
The Labour leader will do battle over policy differences, not personality.
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PMQs: Boris Johnson warns that he’ll be back
At his final PMQs, Johnson made clear that he is as hungry for power as ever.
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PMQs today: Starmer takes aim at Sunak
Boris Johnson was a mere bystander as the Labour leader targeted the Tory candidates’ tax affairs.
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What Dominic Raab missed about Angela Rayner at Glyndebourne
Conservative class warfare is out of date.
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PMQs today: Boris Johnson is clinging on
It was confirmation, if anyone needed it, that the Prime Minister will not resign.
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PMQs: Dominic Raab and Angela Rayner leave a stale taste
The two deputies offered nothing to inspire as they dragged up embarrassing quotations from their opponent’s past.
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PMQs today: Starmer turns the strikes to his advantage
The Labour leader is using industrial action as a chance to frame the Tories as the party of the rich.
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PMQs: Keir Starmer dodges the Rwanda trap
The Labour leader avoided a row over deportations and doubled down on the issue likely to dominate the next general…
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PMQs: Is Keir Starmer wise or weak?
The Labour leader is rarely ever judged to have skewered Boris Johnson, in part because he rarely tries.
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PMQs: Keir Starmer reminds Boris Johnson that Sue Gray isn’t his only problem
While partygate dominates, the Labour leader used his six questions to pile pressure on the Prime Minister over the cost-of-living…
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What we learned from the last PMQs before the local elections
Party leaders made their pitches to voters before polling day next week, but the cloud of sexism hangs over Westminster.
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What we learned from PMQs
The Brexit playbook is back.
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What we learned from this week’s PMQs
Keir Starmer pressured Boris Johnson on the cost-of-living crisis as partisan politics returned.
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What we learned from PMQs: Keir Starmer isn’t asking the tough questions
Many in parliament appear to have resigned themselves to Ukraine’s fall rather than demanding Britain do more to prevent it.
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Theresa May’s Commons attack on Boris Johnson shows revenge in politics is a sweet vindication
The offences against decency that Boris Johnson commits stain the body politic. The Tory party must now act.
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