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By the end of this year, Britain will have had (at least) seven prime ministers in the past decade – and more than 700 recommendations on how to...
Keir Starmer came to PMQs wearing that look of post-resignation relief that we’ve grown all too used to seeing on a prime minister’s face over the...
Now that Labour MPs seem confident that Andy Burnham is the only possible answer to whatever question their party has been asking over the past few...
Keir Starmer looked visibly emotional as he walked up to the lectern in Downing Street this morning. The Prime Minister then held it together for the...
There was a telling moment in Andy Burnham’s second bid to be Labour leader where he was put firmly in place by his own wife. The pair had sat down...
Claire Coutinho emerged as the Tory frontbencher taking deputy prime minister’s questions today, with the shadow energy secretary focusing on oil...
Voters in Makerfield haven’t even gone to the polling stations, but already the Labour leadership contest is well into a detailed exposition of what...
‘Corridor care’ should be an oxymoron, but is instead such a feature of the NHS now that nearly 3,000 people a day found themselves being treated...
Prime Minister’s Questions today was ostensibly about the Defence Investment Plan – or its absence. But Kemi Badenoch was really using the DIP in...
Keir Starmer is using this morning’s cabinet meeting to underline the message he has been sending to more junior ministers over the past few days:...
Where could the government possibly find the money to fund its defence investment plan (DIP)? That question has been the major factor behind the...
Andy Burnham finally confirmed last night that he is indeed standing for the Labour leadership – just in case anyone was confused about what the...
We have now reached the stage of political debate around Henry Nowak’s murder where politicians are talking more about tone policing than they are...
Kemi Badenoch clearly decided that it would be difficult to call for calm around the Henry Nowak case, and then to spend Prime Minister’s Questions...
The latest tranche of files about Lord Peter Mandelson’s appointment as ambassador to Washington contains some big surprises. Who would have...
It’s refreshing that social care has become a topic over which the putative Labour leadership contenders are prepared to scrap, given how neglected...
As well as making noises about wealth taxes that sound suspiciously similar to the kind of thing Andy Burnham would normally say, Wes Streeting has...
What is Wes Streeting up to? For years – decades, in fact – the answer to that question was always, “He wants to be prime minister”. The...
Keir Starmer probably found it vaguely comforting that today’s Prime Minister’s Questions at least gave the impression that he is still making...
Like the rest of the King’s Speech, Keir Starmer’s address on the government’s legislative agenda had been prepared long before the turmoil in...
All three of the resignation letters from ministers who have quit government in the past couple of hours will be painful for Keir Starmer, but Jess...
Keir Starmer’s big survival speech could nevler be big enough to save him as Prime Minister. Whether he ends up getting the push now or later in the...
The final Prime Minister’s Questions of a parliamentary session is often quite a demob-happy affair with a pantomime atmosphere. Today’s, though,...
For something that’s apparently only a ‘desperate political stunt’, Keir Starmer is taking the looming vote on whether to refer him to the...
It will come as no surprise that Keir Starmer appears to have heard a very different evidence session from Sir Olly Robbins to the one everyone else...
Sir Olly Robbins has only been giving evidence to the foreign affairs committee for 20 minutes, and already he has made clear that he is not going to...
What a funny pair Lee Anderson and Zarah Sultana are: so vehemently opposed to one another’s politics and yet so similar in the way they operate,...
Keir Starmer gave six responses to questions about Lord Robertson’s defence spending comments today, none of which addressed the criticism properly....
Is Prime Minister’s Questions past it? We frequently ask this question in Westminster when the Wednesday lunchtime ding-dong between the two party...
George Robertson’s critique of the government’s reluctance to commit to proper defence spending is deeply politically inconvenient for Keir...
Why is Wes Streeting launching a report that argues the NHS doesn’t need to change its funding model? The Health Secretary gave a speech this...
Mental health provision is totally inadequate in this country: we already know that. But you can only really understand quite how badly broken it is...
One of the key rites of passage for all modern prime ministers is losing their temper a little during an exchange with Bernard Jenkin at the liaison...
The Covid inquiry has published the third of its ten (ten!) modules today, this time focused on how the healthcare systems of the UK coped with the...
Keir Starmer had an appalling performance at Prime Minister’s Questions today. It was summarised very well later in the session by Conservative MP...
Prime Minister’s Questions today saw a leader under repeated attack for a ‘screeching U-turn’ and their suitability to be Prime Minister called...
Kemi Badenoch used Prime Minister’s Questions to accuse the government of being flat-footed in its response to the war in the Middle East. The Tory...
NHS maternity services are in crisis: everyone knows that. In fact, everyone has known a lot more than that for at least a decade. There have been so...
Kemi Badenoch was on savage form at Prime Minister’s Questions. The leader of the opposition has generally improved her performance in this session,...
This afternoon’s Commons debate on Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was unusual for all kinds of reasons. It was not just that the Speaker had decided...
Today’s unemployment figures aren’t just a reminder of the mess the government has made of the jobs market with its national insurance hikes. They...
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