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…
Kemi’s best PMQs yet
Kemi Badenoch was on good, brutal form at Prime Minister’s Questions today. Keir Starmer had tried to spike her guns…
Starmer was in no mood to joke at PMQs
Keir Starmer had a much more awkward Prime Minister’s Questions than he is accustomed to. This was largely because Kemi…
Neither Starmer nor Badenoch got what they wanted from PMQs
Keir Starmer wanted to spend Prime Minister’s Questions talking about the UK’s trade deal with India, while Kemi Badenoch –…
Keir Starmer can’t explain his changing views on gender
Keir Starmer was well aware that Kemi Badenoch would probably use Prime Minister’s Questions today to run a victory lap…
Starmer and Badenoch played a childish blame game at PMQs
Keir Starmer had a special point to make at the very outset of Prime Minister’s Questions about the threat of…
Rachel Reeves’s non-Budget is very bad news
Rachel Reeves framed her Spring Statement around the insistence that Labour’s Plan for Change was already working, which meant that…
Keir tells Kemi that a phone ban in schools is ‘completely unnecessary’
Any session of Prime Minister’s Questions that takes place before a fiscal event is merely a warm-up act that everyone…
Badenoch caught Starmer out at PMQs
Keir Starmer didn’t have to defend his welfare cuts until later in the session at today’s Prime Minister’s Questions, because…
Will Labour MPs stomach Liz Kendall’s benefits crackdown?
To underline that there was government agreement on the welfare cuts and reforms she was announcing, Liz Kendall had Keir…
Do Labour know what they want from welfare reform?
Liz Kendall and her ministerial colleagues were forced to offer an hour’s worth of holding statements about the government’s welfare…
What is the point of abolishing NHS England?
What does Wes Streeting think the government will achieve by abolishing NHS England? The Health Secretary gave a statement to…
Is Kemi Badenoch finally getting the hang of PMQs?
Kemi Badenoch made some changes to her strategy at Prime Minister’s Questions today and had a much better time of…
Starmer avoids criticising Trump at PMQs
Keir Starmer has clearly decided that the only way to disagree with Donald Trump and his administration without angering the…
Starmer: Zelensky is a ‘hero’
Keir Starmer was careful in his Commons statement about Ukraine to distance himself from what happened in the Oval Office…
Starmer has his work cut out bringing peace to Ukraine
Keir Starmer today attempted to make the debate about Ukraine’s future one primarily held by Ukraine and European countries. This…
Trump presser could not have gone better for Starmer
Keir Starmer could not have dreamed of a better press conference with Donald Trump. Much of its success was not…
Badenoch accuses Starmer of ‘patronising’ her
It is getting rather repetitive writing that Kemi Badenoch had an uncomfortable Prime Minister’s Questions, so how about this: today’s…
Tory backbenchers are outshining Kemi Badenoch at PMQs
Prime Minister’s Questions is rapidly becoming a challenge for Kemi Badenoch to come up with a topic that the Tories…
Why has Labour dropped so many NHS targets?
Does the Labour government still care about mental health? Recently, it dropped its NHS targets for mental health, along with…
Where Kemi Badenoch keeps going wrong at PMQs
Kemi Badenoch may well have been right in the points that she made at Prime Minister’s Questions, but she managed…
Rachel Reeves tries to reverse Labour’s economic gloom
As expected, Rachel Reeves used her big – and long – growth speech this morning to back the expansion of…
The NHS isn’t solely to blame for its failure to reform
Can the NHS reform itself? MPs on the powerful Public Accounts Committee (PAC) say it doesn’t know how to. It…
Ministers are clearly concerned about school reform row
You could tell from this afternoon’s Education Questions in the Commons that ministers are worried about the row over their…
