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Few politicians have looked more pleased with a joke than Oliver Dowden did with his first offering at Prime Minister’s Questions today. He was...
The Commons has just voted on the latest ping of the Safety of Rwanda Bill pong, after peers sent back just one amendment, which would prevent Rwanda...
The most damning bit of the lurid Mark Menzies case is that the Conservatives had been aware of the allegations for three months before they story...
David Lammy has taken many political shapes in his long career. He’s one of the few members of the Shadow Cabinet who can remember life in a Labour...
Today’s Prime Minister’s Questions was a classic knockabout between Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer clearly written by their respective attack units....
It’s easy to laugh at Liz Truss bringing out a book, much harder to ask whether there are points she makes that Westminster can actually learn from....
In the past few minutes, the Tobacco and Vapes Bill has passed its second reading by 383 votes to 67, with at least six Conservative ministers voting...
In the past few minutes, the Tobacco and Vapes Bill has passed its second reading by 383 votes to 67, with at least six Conservative ministers voting...
It’s easy to laugh at Liz Truss bringing out a book, much harder to ask whether there are points she makes that Westminster can actually learn from....
MPs once again rejected all the changes made by peers to the Safety of Rwanda Bill last night, with the ping-pong continuing this afternoon. There...
Rishi Sunak wants this weekend’s attempt by Iran to attack Israel to mark a de-escalation in the region. He told MPs this afternoon that he would be...
Whatever happens at the next election, one thing is guaranteed. There are going to be a lot of new MPs in Parliament. So far, 100 have said they are...
Angela Rayner has this evening announced that she would quit if convicted of breaking electoral law, saying: ‘If I committed a criminal offence, I...
Rishi Sunak has many unpleasant fights with his party waiting for him when MPs return to Westminster next week. The Rwanda bill, the European...
Why did he do it? Why would anyone be so stupid? That’s the question everyone started asking as soon as William Wragg revealed he had been part of a...
The Downing Street grid for this week – the Government’s media plan of the initiatives it wants to focus the public’s attention on – is...
In the NHS’s long lifetime, people have consistently made the same two assumptions. The first is that the health service could at any minute...
Normally when a select committee hearing or interview is described as ‘wide-ranging’, it’s because a lot was said, but none of it of much note....
If the ‘Waspi women’ (women against state pension inequality) were hoping that last week’s ombudsman report into the maladministration of the...
What difference is the revelation that China was behind two cyber attacks – on the Electoral Commission and UK parliamentarians – really going to...
When Rishi Sunak told his MPs to unite behind him last week, many were left scratching their heads. Both the subject and object of the sentence...
The latest incarnation of Rishi Sunak – national insurance-abolishing Rishi, in case you hadn’t kept pace – is a real gift to Labour. Keir...
Political leaders often signal what they are about by defining themselves against their parties on key issues. David Cameron pursued equal marriage a...
Rishi Sunak will have been grateful to have got through Prime Minister’s Questions today with little criticism – at least from his own side. The...
Rachel Reeves has a busy day: the shadow chancellor is giving her big speech tonight, where she is expected to outline the broad brush of her economic...
Downing Street has warned that peers will show a lack of ‘compassion’ if they do not pass the Rwanda Bill unamended. At this morning’s lobby...
A curious attack from Labour in the Commons this afternoon: shadow work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall used her slot at the regular departmental...
Of all the mad things that the Conservative Party has done over the past few years, surely switching leader again just months before an election would...
An ugly Prime Minister’s Questions today which will probably make the Tories wish they didn’t have to call an election for at least five years –...
Is the government’s expansion of free childcare actually going to work? The early years sector says not. They have warned that parents of two year...
Theresa May was not a good prime minister. There’s no way around it. She believes in public service and hard work, but she didn’t achieve her own...
Is there really any point to the NHS app monitoring people’s step count? This is the latest announcement from Health Secretary Victoria Atkins, who...
Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury in the 1960s and early 1970s, would start his day by banging his head against his desk three times while...
Keir Starmer’s response to the Budget was delayed a little because the SNP forced a division on the immediate measures announced by the Chancellor....
If Jeremy Hunt’s Budget was the final flourish before a May election, it’s going to be a very low-key campaign indeed. The Chancellor did announce...
Prime Minister’s Questions today was a weighty affair, with Keir Starmer focusing on the murder of Sarah Everard following the Angiolini Report into...
This Budget is probably Jeremy Hunt’s last fiscal event before the election, and the Chancellor will want to at least set a fair wind for the...
Budgets are as much about the political theatre as they are about the pounds. Jeremy Hunt isn’t the greatest showman in Parliament, but he is...
Liz Kendall gave a speech this morning in which she promised to ‘build a better future’ for young people, with better mental health support and...
Today’s Prime Minister’s Questions was less about Rishi Sunak and more about the Tories around him. Keir Starmer opened his attack by describing...
‘I’ve been sacked for doing my job. I think I’ve been sacked for doing what the law asks of me and I’ve breached, I’ve fallen down over a...
Will Lindsay Hoyle really last as Speaker? Today he managed to enrage the SNP once again by refusing the party’s application for an emergency...
Liz Truss still seems as busy as during the (brief) time she held power. Scarcely a day goes by without a Truss-related headline, with a book on the...
What was the most striking thing about Rishi Sunak’s appearance at the National Farmers Union conference this week? It wasn’t that this was the...
Lindsay Hoyle’s justification for tearing up convention on the Gaza vote was that he had become worried for MPs’ safety and was trying to give...
The Commons has gone into meltdown this evening over the Speaker’s handling of the Gaza ceasefire motion, with the Speaker expressing ‘regret’...
One person dominated Prime Minister’s Questions, and it wasn’t Rishi Sunak or Keir Starmer. It was Kemi Badenoch, who appears to be going deeper...
The government has now tabled its own amendment to the SNP motion calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. This change to the text calls for ‘negotiations...