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…
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…
