Theresa May makes it an unhappy birthday for Dennis Skinner
The S-bomb landed on PMQs this afternoon. Suffragettes. Exactly a century and a day has passed since parliament granted women…
David Lammy’s shambolic PMQs appearance should worry Corbyn
Theresa May is in China so the Westminster bunfight has been replaced by dull politics. Journalists hate dull politics. But…
Does Jeremy Corbyn think the Tories are to blame for human mortality?
Boris Johnson came up early in PMQs. The Cabinet’s new ‘shadow chancellor’ has called for extra money – five billion…
Hopeless Jeremy Corbyn manages to out-feeble Theresa May yet again
Carillion. It doesn’t help that the name resembles a kiddie’s word, like gazillion, suggesting an astronomical sum of cash. The sudden…
Cuts, queues and death dominate PMQs
Cuts, queues and death. These motifs dominated the New Year instalment of PMQs. At the end of the last episode, shortly…
The SNP is a coven of hysterical exhibitionists
Have you noticed the temperature? It’s got weirdly balmy all of a sudden. And the forecasters are predicting a spell…
Jeremy Corbyn reveals his inner Blairite
Simple result at PMQs. Mrs May won without trying. Mr Corbyn lost in the same way. Even at his most…
Jeremy Corbyn scores six own-goals in a row at PMQs
Ah the joys of political marriages. Theresa May’s pact with the DUP bolstered her at PMQs today, and she delivered…
How did Damian Green ever reach the Cabinet?
The PM is in the middle-east on her ‘strong and stable leadership’ tour. Replacing her at PMQs stood Damian Green,…
Funeral Phil has a sense of comedy that goes unnoticed
Odd-looking chap, the chancellor. Give him a moustache and a top hat and he could be Neville Chamberlain. Or a…
Jeremy Corbyn’s post-election glow appears to have faded
Angela Eagle, as befits her oxymoronic name, looks like a cherub and attacks like a raptor. Today her outfit was…
PMQs Sketch: Sex scandals and private jets
Bit of a rum PMQs. The evolving sexual scandals cast a pall over proceedings. Up first, Dennis Skinner, who revealed…
It’s time to bin Bercow
Jeremy Corbyn wanted to repeat last week’s victory on Universal Credit. He landed no serious blows but he made the…
John Bercow’s ego trip lets May off the hook at PMQs
PMQs began with an announcement. The life president of the John Bercow fan-club rose from the Speaker’s chair to welcome…
Theresa May has yet another bad day at the office
Theresa May needed to play a blinder today. But she left herself looking heartless and complacent. Jeremy Corbyn attacked her…
PMQs Sketch: Policy pay, child poverty, and Brexit
The news was bad at PMQs today. Gosh, it was terrible. Layla Moran started by announcing that Brexit would jeopardise…
PMQs Sketch: Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn are back in control
Mrs May was back to her former self today. Cool, brusque, snappy and effective. Electoral disaster has served her well.…
Ukip’s interim leader on Nigel Farage, Brexit and his party’s death spiral
‘Some wine? How about a beer? Shall we settle into a good old pub?’ I make these suggestions to Ukip’s…
Theresa May’s bickering Cabinet united to ambush Corbyn at PMQs
Tories are worried. The holiday season is here. And the last time their leader took a break – in Snowdonia…
Emily Thornberry outshines Damian Green – and Corbyn – at PMQs
Mrs May couldn’t make PMQs today. She was lunching with royalty up at the Palace. The happy atmosphere of the…
Theresa May is slowly steadying the Tory ship
It was better from Theresa May today. She was combative, prickly and forceful at PMQs. The ship is moving on…
Theresa May diverts Grenfell blame onto Tony Blair
It was the first PMQs since Mrs May crawled triumphantly back into Downing Street after her humiliating victory in the…
Jeremy Corbyn survives his trial-by-sofa
It started with a fib. Jeremy Corbyn endured a trial-by-sofa on BBC One last night and he was asked if…
Theresa and Philip bored the nation with their strong and stable relationship
How was last night’s TV squirm-athon? The sacrificial victims handled it pretty well, at first. Theresa May and her unknown…
Parliament’s departing greybeards enjoy one final waffle at PMQs
There was astonishment at the start of PMQs as Michael Fabricant’s wig flew up into the air. Fortunately its owner…
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