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Sir Keir Starmer made (or, to be strictly correct, learn off his notes) a comic story about Nigel Farage being away on vacation; there used to be, then again, a extra obvious absence from the chamber all over PMQs.  Where used to be the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves? Her commonplace place …

It’s already turn into the Westminster ‘Whodunnit?’ of the 12 months. Who used to be in the back of the leaking of the explosive ‘Angegate’ memo that has uncovered the fracturing harmony of the Cabinet, and blown a gaping hollow in Rachel Reeves’s faltering financial technique? The malign missive – …

By QUENTIN LETTS FOR THE DAILY MAIL Published: 17:27 EDT, 20 May 2025 | Updated: 20:46 EDT, 20 May 2025 Noisy, crowing laughter from Labour (and Lib Dems) combined with shouts of ‘shut up!’ and groans of ‘oh no, here we go!’ when Conservatives and Scots Nats puzzled Sir Keir …

By QUENTIN LETTS FOR THE DAILY MAIL Published: 23:06 EDT, 19 May 2025 | Updated: 23:38 EDT, 19 May 2025 Standing between two Brussels grand-fromages, Sir Keir Starmer may have been an escapee returned to the gaolers. To make it much more galling, the scene used to be on supposedly …

I’m sufficiently old to bear in mind when the Eurovision Song Contest was once an annual little bit of amusing. We’d all collect around the TV to have a pleasant snort at how cringeworthy different international locations’ tune was once and the way thrilling it was once when the likes …

Death, it kind of feels, is a are living matter in Westminster. On the only hand now we have Kim Leadbeater’s ill-thought-out and chaotic Assisted Dying Bill; at the different Stella Creasy’s latest try to reform abortion regulations in order that girls like Nicola Packer, who took tablets whilst 26 …

When Charles III got here to the throne in September 2022, some commentators warned he would search to ‘meddle’ and ‘cross constitutional red lines’. These critics had failed to grasp that when 73 years of preparation, he had a a long way sharper grab of the brand new constraints on …

A triumphalist speech via Lincolnshire’s new Reform Party mayor to her cheering supporters waving Union flags made headlines throughout Britain. At town corridor of the county’s as soon as thriving Grimsby fishing port, Dame Andrea Jenkyns pledged to take on mass unlawful immigration via throwing asylum seekers out of accommodations …