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Prime Minister's Questions isn't funny, isn't clever and nobody is laughing, writes Andrew Marr

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18.12.2025

By Andrew Marr

When I was a small boy and getting a bit above myself - it did happen - my mother would fix me with a stern look and say: "It isn't clever. It isn't funny. And nobody is laughing."

Well, I feel the same way these days about Prime Minister's Questions.

Today was the last session of the year at Westminster and, if your taste is for panto with no costumes, a charisma free cast and jokes from the place where cut-price crackers go to die, you'd have loved it.

To be fair there was one half decent joke, from Keir Starmer of all people, who suggested to Reform MPs that the next time they were approached by men from the east bearing gifts, they might consider reporting the........

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