Lloyd Evans 
PMQs sketch: ‘What a penetrating insight into the affairs of state’
A mood of giggles and mischief descended on PMQs today. David Cameron is in America – attempting to cure insomniacs by explaining Tory Euro-scepticism to them – and his role… Continue reading
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PMQs sketch: Miliband’s NHS torment
Back to business at PMQs. Our ailing NHS, and its many-headed crises, were today’s key battle-ground. We hear of sick people being parked in ever tinier and more humiliating confinements:… Continue reading
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PMQs sketch: Everyone talks about nothing, while no-one listens
Let’s have a breather. It seemed like a truce had been tacitly declared between the party leaders at today’s PMQs. Instead of going on the offensive, Cameron and Miliband turned… Continue reading
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PMQs sketch: Nothing changes, yet everything is different
There comes a moment in a PM’s journey when he crests the ridge and starts on the downhill leg. David Cameron made that unhappy transition today. PMQs began with a… Continue reading
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PMQs sketch: Miliband packs a punch, and Cameron punches back
Whooo that was nasty. Today’s was the most vicious PMQs of the last twelve months. Easily. Ed Miliband started by quoting the case of a Londoner called ‘John’ who was… Continue reading
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PMQs sketch: Miliband has ‘one of those days’
What a strange PMQs. The house seemed half empty. The tug of elsewhere dominated proceedings. Richard Drax asked the prime minister if ‘prospective members of parliament’ should ever speak in… Continue reading
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From the archive: What Do They Want? Victory for Saddam
Ten years ago today, Lloyd Evans joined the anti-Iraq war march in London. Evans had an open mind about the war, until he joined the peace movement and met Bianca… Continue reading
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PMQs sketch: In which Cameron both chooses and answers the questions.
Whoosh! Crasshh! Ploophm! Crummppp! The personal attacks came pounding in on David Cameron today. Ed Miliband asked about declining living standards and set about portraying the prime minister as an… Continue reading
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PMQs sketch: Ed Miliband vs David Cameron on the ‘bedroom tax’
It was cynical. It was shameless. It was low-down politics in every way. But Miliband’s stunt at PMQs very nearly worked. His theme was the reform of housing benefit that… Continue reading
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PMQs sketch: Dave prepares the Fortnums hamper for his food bank visit
It was the croc that didn’t snap, the firework that failed to fly, the jeroboam that refused to go pop. Last week, David Cameron’s speech on Europe was supposed to… Continue reading
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PMQs sketch: David Cameron, saviour of Europe
David Cameron’s entrance to the Commons at noon was cheered so ecstatically by his backbenchers that broadcasters decided to run the footage again, straight after PMQs. The Tory cheers redoubled… Continue reading
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Sketch: Cameron’s EU climax
This was no tantric anti-climax. This was a seismic moment in British politics. David Cameron breezed into a London press conference this morning and proceeded to reshape Europe. The wooden… Continue reading
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Sketch: Obama’s inauguration
It was like Narnia at today’s inauguration. Half a million Obama fans gathered in Washington to shiver as their leader was sworn in for the second time. (Or the fourth,… Continue reading
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PMQs sketch: Cameron and Miliband’s merry slanders
It was written in the faces at PMQs today. Ed Miliband seemed relaxed and happy as he exploited Tory splits ahead of Cameron’s Euro-address on Friday. The PM looked irritable… Continue reading
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Sketch: Gordon Brown resurfaces
Gordon Brown lumbered back into parliament this evening to speak in an adjournment debate at 7.10 pm. Even before dinner he managed to look both over-fed and a bit exhausted.… Continue reading
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PMQs sketch: Labour unleashes Operation Starving Kiddie
Seemed a good idea at the time. Ed Miliband decided that the progress report published by the Coalition is a ‘secret audit’. At today’s PMQs he accused Cameron of sneaking… Continue reading
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PMQs sketch: Labour stage a relentless attack on Cameron
A fascinating PMQs. Labour staged one of the most carefully orchestrated attacks on David Cameron they’ve ever mounted. It was relentless. Ed Miliband kicked off by asking the PM about… Continue reading
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PMQs sketch: Ed Miliband, the political vulture
PMQs today revealed just how dependent Ed Miliband is on Britain’s future performance. The public finances have shaped his entire career. In government, he watched Gordon Brown screw the economy.… Continue reading
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Autumn Statement sketch: Sub-arctic Chancellor warms up the Commons
From our sub-arctic chancellor this was a rip-roaring performance. Using all the arts perfected by Gordon Brown, he dazzled the house with his Autumn Statement. A chancellor should never be… Continue reading
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Leveson press conference sketch: the supreme authority of the Lord
The conference platform was surrounded by screens tinted a deep and easeful blue. At just after 1.30 pm, Lord Leveson ambled forth, sporting a white shirt, a grey suit and… Continue reading
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