Can MPs call each other liars now?
Theresa May, our stand-in prime minster, was hit by a surprisingly effective ambush at PMQs. Jeremy Corbyn led on Britain’s…
John Bercow’s authority has now collapsed
The title ‘Father of the House’ tends to give the bearer a chronic problem with wind. The present holder, Ken…
Tory leadership debate: who won Emily Maitlis’ Brexit show trial?
Five hopefuls in a shallow arc of bar-stools. Last night, the BBC summoned the Tory candidates for a Brexit show…
Boris Johnson had an easy ride at his campaign launch
Boris Johnson made his pitch to become PM at a spirited mini-rally in central London. He began with a swipe…
Rebecca Long-Bailey has exposed Labour’s climate-change muddle
A festival of inertia at PMQs today. A party without a leader, a Government without a purpose and a Parliament…
PMQs: May and Corbyn sound like a sketch about a deaf shopkeeper
Tories who still support Theresa May are as rare as bumblebees in Antarctica. Her backbenchers were too polite to mention…
Jeremy Corbyn’s hypocritical appetite for bad news
It’s that time of year. The Sunday Times Rich-List is out. To most of us it’s a negligible frivolity. To…
Theresa May tries out a new Brexit delay excuse
PMQs began with Janet Daby calling for a mass-cull of the working-class. The Labour MP relayed the experience of an industrious…
Theresa May flounders horribly at PMQs
Best mates on Brexit, deadly foes on everything else. The highly suspicious search for a Lab/Con Brexit accord was suspended…
Why are our MPs fawning over Greta Thunberg?
Never mind sabotaging Brexit. The sight of MPs clamouring to be photographed alongside Greta Thunberg yesterday dealt yet another harmful…
Theresa May’s destiny is in Donald Tusk’s hands now
Is this the end? The tragedy is that she no longer knows. The Prime Minister’s destiny is in the hands…
The Brexit lovebirds: Jeremy Corbyn and Theresa May
Together at last. Jeremy Corbyn and Theresa May are to meet, a deux, this afternoon to find a compromise on…
Have we seen the last of the Maybot?
An astonishing PMQs. Theresa May no longer looks like a sheeted ghost. She’s quit the sick-bay and acquired a veneer…
‘Weak, weak, weak’ – May battered from both sides at PMQs
The Brexit kerfuffle has been so much fun that she wants three more months of it. That was the PM’s…
Is Philip Hammond to blame for the knife-crime epidemic?
The Chancellor, Philip Hammond, breezed into the Commons to deliver a languid and greatly abridged Spring Statement. He had the…
Corbyn fails to identify the culprit of the knife-crime epidemic
Jeremy Corbyn’s task can rarely have been easier at PMQs. The knife-crime epidemic has filled our morgues with the bodies…
Has the Independent Group ‘revolution’ fallen flat already?
Ten days since the start of the Great February Revolution (as historians are unlikely to call it) and the breakaway…
The Independent Group is doomed to follow in the SDP’s footsteps
It’s Day Three of the great insurrection against the tired, stale old politics. Only this morning, a fresh impetus was…
Why can’t Ian Blackford admit the truth about a no-deal Brexit?
It’s all over, folks. This is absolutely the last time you’ll ever see Theresa May live in concert. Until the…
Why did Jeremy Hunt have such a long face at PMQs?
Bit of a different day at PMQs. There wasn’t a peep from Remain Corner where Anna Soubry, Nicky Morgan and…
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