Who’s to blame for Labour’s green U-turn?
Who to blame for the demise of Labour’s £28 billion annual green investment pledge? According to Keir Starmer, it’s the…
Nicola Sturgeon’s torrid time at the Covid Inquiry
Nicola Sturgeon’s afternoon at the Covid Inquiry was pretty brutal. She was subjected to a difficult round of questioning on…
Starmer and Sunak argue about a man called Phil
Keir Starmer opened PMQs by describing ‘the plight of the Member for Mid Norfolk’, whose mortgage had gone up by…
The Lords’ debate exposed the holes in the Tories’ Rwanda Bill
What sort of trouble is the Rwanda deportation legislation going to get into in the Lords? It passed its second…
Do the Tories really ‘have a plan’?
Tory ministers are now well rehearsed in the latest slogan that Rishi Sunak wants to take into the election. Today’s…
NHS consultants have created another headache for the Tories
The government has just lost one of its bargaining chips in the long-running junior doctors’ strikes: hospital consultants have narrowly…
Sunak dodges Tory revolt on council cash crisis
Rishi Sunak sidestepped another Tory rebellion this afternoon with the announcement of an extra £500 million in funding for councils…
When will Starmer and Sunak get with the times at PMQs?
‘Another week with no ideas. Absolutely no ideas for this country and absolutely no plans.’ Either Rishi Sunak or Keir…
Simon Clarke isn’t the only Tory MP unhappy with Sunak
Simon Clarke’s detonation last night didn’t come as a huge surprise. The Tory whips had already pre-briefed a group of…
Starmer and Sunak agree for now on Red Sea attacks
What happens if the latest round of strikes against the Houthis don’t deter them? That was the big question as…
Why the Tories should think twice about pre-election tax cuts
Are Jeremy Hunt and Rishi Sunak asking the right question as they approach the spring Budget? For the Chancellor and…
Does Sunak have a relatability problem?
Rishi Sunak has been caught on camera apparently walking away from a woman who has just started telling him about…
Only 11 Tories vote against Rwanda Bill
As expected, the Commons has backed the Safety of Rwanda Bill at third reading by 320 votes to 276. Just…
Sunak and Starmer can’t help but trade identical insults
Another week, another Prime Minister’s Questions featuring the two party leaders trading exactly the same insult: you don’t believe in…
Tory rebels defy No. 10 over the Rwanda Bill
It’s always a mistake for Downing Street to pretend it knows backbenchers’ minds better than they do It turns out…
Houthi attacks are nothing to do with Gaza, says Sunak
Rishi Sunak has updated MPs on the strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen, just as a missile reportedly from the…
We don’t need targets to know the NHS is failing
How has the NHS missed most of its key targets for the past seven years? Some parts of the UK-wide…
Are the Tories cooling on their support for Israel?
The language in the government and parliament over Israel has changed a lot this week. Ministers are no longer mounting…
Starmer chooses not to probe Sunak on Post Office
Keir Starmer clearly judged that while the Post Office scandal is the hot topic today, voters will be thinking about…
Sunak to ‘swiftly’ exonerate Post Office scandal victims
Rishi Sunak used the start of Prime Minister’s Questions today to announce that the government will be introducing legislation to…
The Post Office scandal was too boring for politicians to fix
The government is now ‘under pressure’ over the Post Office Horizon IT scandal. The pressure comes in the form of…
Sunak plays it safe with election announcement
Rishi Sunak is – not unusually – playing it safe by saying his ‘working assumption’ is that the election will…
Sunak gets tetchy during Rwanda and Israel grilling
If Rishi Sunak still doesn’t recognise the description of himself as ‘tetchy’, then he could do worse than to watch…
Sunak’s strange Covid Inquiry appearance
Rishi Sunak had a strange pandemic. He spent a lot of it in government meetings, the details of which he…
Was Sunak oblivious to No. 10’s Covid dysfunction?
Rishi Sunak has already provided a statement of evidence to the Covid Inquiry, but this morning’s hearing spent more time…
