PMQs
Kemi let Starmer off the hook again
Labour thinks it can win on immigration. Their new strategy was road-tested today at PMQs as backbencher Olivia Bailey opened…
Kemi Badenoch must get better at PMQs
Third time lucky for Kemi Badenoch. The Tory leader’s first two attempts to crush Keir Starmer at PMQs failed. Today…
Badenoch’s substitute fails to land on Rayner at PMQs
Angela Rayner was so keen to get out of the traps with her criticism of the last Conservative government at…
Rishi Sunak says farewell to Keir Starmer
When Rishi Sunak was Prime Minister, he and Keir Starmer had some of the most repetitive and uninformative sessions at…
Keir Starmer is full of bilge
Who runs Britain’s foreign policy? Not the government, that’s clear. At PMQs, Sir Keir Starmer got a monumental roasting from…
Keir Starmer needs to answer the question
Neither Keir Starmer nor Rishi Sunak were very good at Prime Minister’s Questions today. Though Starmer didn’t get his own…
Rishi Sunak’s nightmare PMQs
Wow. For Rishi fans, that was one to forget. The Tory leader lacked his usual fluency and focus at PMQs…
PMQs proved that we have too many politicians
PMQs drove up a cul-de-sac today. Sir Keir’s team of researchers have discovered a crime blackspot where ten houses have…
PMQs was a blue-on-blue bloodbath
Knife crime beset PMQs. It was a horrific blue-on-blue bloodbath as Tory backstabbers queued up to play the role of Brutus…
PMQs will only encourage further rebellion
At one point in today’s Prime Minister’s Questions, the Speaker called MPs to order and told them: ‘We’ve got to…
Why we shouldn't ban Russia Today
Nadine Dorries, the Culture Secretary, has written to Ofcom urging it to keep the situation with Russia Today ‘very carefully…
PMQs: Boris doubles down on Jimmy Savile claims
Today’s PMQs suggests that some of the immediate heat has gone the partygate crisis, if only temporarily. Sir Keir Starmer…
A rather pointless PMQs lets Boris off the hook
Given the extraordinarily low expectations, Prime Minister’s Questions went reasonably well for Boris Johnson today. That is partly because it…
Unbowed Boris has put his Tory rivals in their places
Boris was resurgent at PMQs today. He sprinkled scorn, merriment and mischief in all directions. He even boasted that last…
PMQs: Boris's nadir
The bombshell at bay. That’s how Boris looked at today’s PMQs. Deflated, cornered, winded and lifeless. Gone were the chuckles…
Boris throws his staff under the bus
What possible lines of defence could the Prime Minister come up with after the leaking of footage showing his Downing…
Sir Keir was defeated by his own strategy at PMQs
The great thing about being trashed in the polls is that the tiniest improvement looks like a triumphant comeback. At…
Have Boris and Starmer worked out each other's weaknesses?
Sir Keir Starmer is continuing to use his Prime Minister’s Questions to build a narrative about the government’s lack of…
Boris's 'Captain Hindsight' attack backfires
Boris Johnson may be able to explain his U-turn on imposing a second national lockdown on England in policy terms,…
Life inside Jeremy Corbyn’s crazy party
What life is like inside the Labour party right now
Charles Moore’s Notes: Cameron should bring back twice-weekly PMQs
David Cameron is taking a bit of trouble to unite his parliamentary party. Having built a coalition outside it last…
How the Westminster hawk became an endangered species
There is a slight whiff of the summer of 1914 to Westminster at the moment. The garden party season is…
