Show of strength by Reform MPs at PMQs turns into a cameo appearance.
A well-timed jibe by the prime minister at Nigel Farage’s side-hustle seemed to provoke the party leader into staging a mass walkout 🤣
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Reeves slips into yoga voice to try to soothe fears over costs of Trump’s war.
The chancellor was meant to set out her contingency plans but it was an announcement without any announcements in it.
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Starmer’s liaison committee jaunt was largely soporific – just as he’d wanted.
Every PM hopes to emerge having said nothing that makes the news, and with Iran centre-stage Keir played a blinder.
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What a greattar #JohnCrace
'She went on to say that Labour were useless because they hadn’t given enough thought to how they were going to fix the mess the Tories had left after 14 years in office.'
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Kemi Badenoch channels her fantasies as she launches the Tories’ local election campaign
This wasn’t just a mean-spirited version of Britain, it was also positively deranged
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Memory loss strikes down Starmer and Badenoch at an infuriating #PMQs
PM and Tory leader enter maddening death spiral of dodging respective questions on Peter Mandelson and war in Middle East
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"Nige and Honest Bob. Honest Bob and Nige. Reform’s answer to the Chuckle Brothers. Robert Jenrick is just about the only other member of Reform that Nige will be seen dead with now"
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Starmer speech on Iran leaves Reform UK and the Tories playing catch-up
The PM’s decision not to sign up the UK to the Middle East conflict reflects the public mood better than Badenoch and Farage’s former gung-ho support
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Why the hell did Starmer pick Mandelson? The latest mug on the media round had no idea
Nick Thomas-Symonds unravelled under barrage of questions – as PM instead bored some mothers and babies in Belfast.
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So Badenoch, Farage and Blair think the Iran war is a great idea? Hmm …
Kemi may be all in favour, but at least economic realpolitik is forcing her to take a slightly different tack
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Digested week: it’s been a rough year – so thank you to our politicians for giving me plenty to write about
I’ve lost count of the number of sketches I wrote from the chemo ward as Jill went through the hell of cancer treatment.
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'Kemi is wrong about everything. Which is almost an achievement in itself
The Tory leader’s appearance on the Today programme was sheer madness – and comedy gold'
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Badenoch gives a borderline disgraceful performance at #PMQs on Iran.
At times like this you have to thank your lucky stars that the opposition leader is not in Downing Street.
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After failing to win the peace prize, Trump turns his focus to Nobel prize for war
As for Keir Starmer, even when he tries to make a reasonably sound judgment he somehow ends up losing both sides of the argument.
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Spencer’s victory speech an object lesson in grace while Reform’s man rages.
Matt Goodwin claimed cheating in Gorton and Denton, Angeliki Stogia fled, Keir was tin-eared and Kemi brought the comedy.
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The Your Party committee election was chaos. Why break the habit of a lifetime?
As the results livestream was delayed, voters lamented: ‘Is it too much to ask for competence as well as democracy
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Great Kemi revival stalls as student loans debate turns into deranged tirade
PMQs was going reasonably well for Tory leader until she began to find her own argument too worthy and started hurling insults instead
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Farage kicks things off before 30 minutes of hate – and has the final word.
Reform’s ‘shadow home secretary’, Zia Yusuf, launches tirade of misery that sounded more hardline and deranged as it went.
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The Real Keir comes out fighting and turns the tables on deluded Kemi.
The Tory leader thinks she has masterminded the PM’s series of crises. You could put her on a fairground ride and she would still think she was in control of where she was going.
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Revisionism the order of Labour’s day as the wagons circle around Starmer.
The same cabinet ministers who failed to speak up for the PM in the morning were soon offering their undying support.
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Labour forced into humble pie address over Mandelson disclosures.
Quiet air of desperation on government benches as Peter Mandelson’s links with Jeffrey Epstein consume the Commons.
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Mandy wonders where it all went wrong as Labour throws him to the wolves
Mandelson tried to explain as everyone from Harriet Harman to Robert Jenrick lined up to condemn him
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No more get out clauses, no more routes back to power. Finally, Peter Mandelson is on his own
Labour’s Prince of Darkness has always been reckless and greedy. The only question now is how his reckoning took so long
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Badenoch shoots herself in the foot on the Tories’ long march to the right
Not content with haemorrhaging MPs to Reform, Kemi decides to drive others into the arms of the Lib Dems.
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Reform’s Matt Goodwin is sure he’s the right man for Gorton and Denton. He just doesn’t know why…
Introduced by an unsupervised Lee Anderson, the byelection candidate was out of his depth immediately
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That noise? The sound of the barrel getting scraped. Only last summer, Reform insiders were briefing the rightwing media that the party would never welcome Suella Braverman into its ranks. Too much baggage. Too out of control
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To the extent that sense can be made of Trump's words & actions, #JohnCrace makes sense. See words, along with picture of #vulva and #TinyHands.
Along comes Trump and our emperors have no clothes
There’s no shame in not knowing what he’ll say next: neither does he. But that didn’t stop many claiming to make sense of it.
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Kemi fails to resist the cheap shot as she backs Trump on Chagos Islands
Tory leader tries to score points by siding with out-of-control president hellbent on destroying Nato and Europe
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