Kemi Badenoch is enjoying herself
Kemi Badenoch had plenty to work with at Prime Minister’s Questions today. She opened with the departure of the head…
Badenoch’s PMQs attack ran out of steam
Kemi Badenoch had two chances to attack the government today: first at Prime Minister’s Questions, and then again in response…
Starmer did even worse than Badenoch at PMQs
Neither Kemi Badenoch nor Keir Starmer performed very well at Prime Minister’s Questions: both fluffed their lines early on. Badenoch…
Only Wes Streeting came out well from PMQs
Who won PMQs this week? Not Kemi Badenoch, nor Keir Starmer for that matter. In fact, the real winner wasn’t…
David Lammy can’t blame the Tories for the latest prison release debacle
Today’s Prime Minister’s Questions – taken by Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy – had a sting in the tail. The…
Why Starmer is back to attacking the Tories at PMQs
Once again, the key takeaway from today’s Prime Minister’s Questions is what Keir Starmer didn’t say, rather than what he…
Keir Starmer failed to put a lid on the China spy story at PMQs
Keir Starmer did not go into Prime Minister’s Questions with the intention of resolving the row over the collapse of…
What does Reeves want from businesses?
Is Labour serious about welfare reform? It hasn’t given that impression over the past year, given the flagship welfare reform…
Badenoch has learned from her PMQs mistakes
Kemi Badenoch learned from her mistakes at last week’s Prime Minister’s Questions, and devoted all six of her questions to…
Keir Starmer comes to Angela Rayner’s defence at PMQs
Kemi Badenoch and Keir Starmer clearly didn’t spend their summer breaks working on their performances at Prime Minister’s Questions. Today’s…
What’s the point of Starmer’s reshuffle?
Will Keir Starmer’s mini-reshuffle of ministers and key aides solve the Prime Minister’s problems? The Prime Minister has moved Darren…
The woman I’m not – Nicola Sturgeon
Scotland’s former first minister spends most of her memoir telling us how different she is from her public image
Keir Starmer is taking Boris Johnson’s approach to PMQs
Keir Starmer joked at Prime Minister’s Questions today that Tory MPs seemed to be on recess already. But he wasn’t…
Badenoch got what she wanted at PMQs
If he were measuring his success at Prime Minister’s Questions purely by avoiding making any senior colleagues cry, Keir Starmer…
Landscape designer Tom Stuart-Smith on mistakes, sand and weeds
If you’re looking for an early example of Tom Stuart-Smith’s work, you’d have to go to a car park to…
So much is still unanswered about NHS reform
Given we have known for a good while that Labour thinks the way to save the health service is to…
Starmer throws his Chancellor under the bus
Keir Starmer was utterly brutal at today’s Prime Minister’s Questions, though towards his own Chancellor, rather than the opposition. He…
Martha’s Rule should be a model for changing the NHS
What do we really need to change about the NHS? Later this week we will finally get the NHS plan…
Labour MPs are still sceptical of the Welfare Bill
Liz Kendall tried to use her Commons statement on the government’s U-turn on some of the disability benefit cuts to…
The NHS isn’t being honest about the maternity crisis
Wes Streeting has announced yet another inquiry into NHS maternity safety: this time a national investigation which the Health Secretary…
Labour whip resigns over disability benefit cuts
This evening, the Labour MP Vicky Foxcroft has resigned as a government whip over the disability benefit cuts. In a…
Rayner’s PMQs clash shows why Reform is doing so well
Kemi Badenoch will have been irritated to miss today’s Prime Minister’s Questions, given it denied her the opportunity to accuse…
Will Labour actually act on the Casey grooming gang report?
Has the government really U-turned on grooming gangs? Six months after resisting a national inquiry into the crimes committed against…
Starmer agrees to grooming gangs inquiry
This evening, Keir Starmer has announced he does want a national inquiry on grooming gangs after all. The Prime Minister…
Starmer returns to his favourite PMQs subject: Liz Truss
‘Mr Speaker, he loves talking about Liz Truss – why? Because he wants to hide from his economic record.’ Kemi…
