Polanski pontificates on Israel (again)
Good old Zack Polanski spent the night before the local elections pontificating once again on – you guessed it –…
Starmer’s TikTok backfires (again)
Sir Keir Starmer’s desperation to get down with the kids hit new lows in the run up to the local…
Kemi savages David Gauke’s knightood
Happy polling day one and all. While the political parties knock up doors, the Financial Times has brought some merriment…
Burnham’s Green flirtation angers Labour MP
Andy Burnham has once again sent Labour’s Blairite backbenches into a storm. The wannabe Prime Minister has a knack for…
Polanski grovels over Golders Green (again)
With a day to go before voters head to the polls, Zack Polanski is determined to go out with a…
Polanski squirms on Red Cross claims
Zack Polanski is no stranger to reinventing himself. He’s been an actor, a hypnotherapist capable of enlarging breasts, a nightclub…
Starmer to 2024 intake: back me or else
With two days to go before voters take to the ballot box, leadership manoeuvring, that perennial Westminster pastime, has slipped…
Watch: Kemi Badenoch lays into pro-Palestine heckler
A key component of Kemi Badenoch’s pitch to the country is that ‘you will always know where you stand with…
Polanski grovels for Met criticism
Oh dear. Just when you thought the Greens could sink no lower on crime and justice, along came Zack Polanski…
Miliband’s red tape bonfire backfires
Back in February, Steerpike’s old friend Ed Miliband vowed to liberate Britain’s nuclear industry from the stranglehold of bureaucracy. Red…
Kemi’s Conservative council confusion
Many in SW1 have remarked that Kemi Badenoch has come on quite a bit since her early PMQs’ appearances. The…
Is Streeting ready to be PM?
With a week to go before voters take to the polls, the race for victory is heating up. But it…
The long march of the Ukippers
Wakey wakey! Whoooo remembers the United Kingdom Independence Party? Steerpike has fond memories of Ukip, Nigel Farage’s previous-but-one political vehicle…
Lineker’s curious silence on Golders Green attack
As a darling of the progressive commentariat, Gary Lineker is not usually one to let injustice pass unremarked. The former…
Watch: Labour MP told to resign by Jewish constituents
It has been a pretty grim day in Golders Green. Two Jewish men have been stabbed, with the Metropolitan Police formally…
Which party leader is on the road the most?
As local elections loom ever closer, Britain’s intrepid party leaders have taken to the road to pitch themselves far and…
Katie Lam rules out joining Reform
After Robert Jenrick’s (not entirely) shocking defection to Reform in January, Westminster’s eyes swiftly turned towards one of the Tory…
Watch: Morgan McSweeney’s mea culpa
It’s a blockbuster day in parliament today. To kick things off, we had Philip Barton up pleading ignorance; to close…
Ex-mandarin eviscerates PM’s claims on Mandy appointment
Whooooo remembers Sir Philip Barton? The lifelong diplomat spent an inglorious four and a half years in charge of the…
Hereditaries gear up for last hurrah
So. Farewell then to the last hereditary peers. Today marks the last day in parliament for most of the small…
Soft left to ‘soft launch’ programme
It’s that time of year again. Spring is sprung and that means another bad set of local elections for an…
Labour MP: PM going is ‘when not if’
Up until now, the subject of the Prime Minister’s political survival has been an awkward question for any Labour MP.…
Watch: Pat McFadden flounders on Robbins
Oh dear. For many years, there has been an iron rule of Labour broadcasting: when you’re in a jam, call…
Watch: Robbins drops Doyle bombshell
Oh dear. It seems that Keir Starmer’s strategy has, er, backfired once again. Having spent yesterday afternoon declaring to all…
Watch: Lee Anderson kicked out of the Commons for calling Starmer a liar
Keir Starmer has not being having a good time of it in the Commons. Once again, the PM has been…
