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…
This was Badenoch’s best PMQs yet
Kemi Badenoch had her best Prime Minister’s Questions yet today. She alighted on a topic that Keir Starmer really struggled…
Cooper announces Southport public inquiry
Yvette Cooper has this evening announced that the government will be setting up a public inquiry looking for ‘answers’ on…
Starmer saved his favourite attack until the end at PMQs
Kemi Badenoch continued with her theme of ‘why can you trust anything the Prime Minister says’ at Prime Minister’s Questions…
Is Westminster forgetting about the grooming gangs already?
Remember grooming gangs? Last week’s big story has amazingly already been superseded by other political rows, but they came up…
The Natural History Museum’s new Evolution Garden is inspired
The Natural History Museum is one of the most beautiful buildings in London, but its gardens have long been a…
Reform and Tories accused of weaponising grooming gangs scandal
Unsurprisingly, the Conservative attempt to amend/kill off the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill failed tonight, with MPs voting 364 to…
Kemi Badenoch must ask better questions
Keir Starmer has not seemed in control of the grooming gangs story since it broke, but at Prime Minister’s Questions,…
Sarah Champion and the grooming gang attention span problem
There are now two debates underway about grooming gangs and how the government should investigate them further. The first is…
Wes Streeting’s ‘care plans’ are old news
There is much that is good in today’s NHS elective recovery announcement: changes to incentives for trusts so that they…
Grooming gang row overshadows Keir Starmer’s NHS speech
Keir Starmer spent a significant time this morning arguing that the last thing we need is another review and report…
What’s the point of a social care review?
Whack! That’s the sound of social care reform once again being hit into the long grass. Thud! Another hit sends…
Kemi Badenoch failed to pin down Starmer at PMQs – again
Kemi Badenoch has become fixated on accusing Keir Starmer of not telling the truth at Prime Minister’s Questions, to the…
The finger-pointing over Yang Tengbo begins
The threatened Commons drama of an MP using parliamentary privilege to name the alleged Chinese spy was dampened rather after…
