Jeremy Corbyn turned up for Prime Ministers Questions in a puke green suit – which was just as well. Just when you thought it could not get any worse it got even worse than you thought it could get.…
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Imagine, if you can, Robert Peston’s older brother; the same strangulated syntax, the same windmilling arms. Step forward David Lidington, MP for Aylesbury, Leader of the House of Commons and, for – one lunchtime only – the PM in PMQs.…
Did you know that the Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the present First Lord of the Treasury, is actually called Terry? Not Theresa as in Theresa May but Terry as in Venables or Thomas or indeed Major-Ball.…
Out on the Thames Captain Jack Sparrow, disguised as Bob Geldof, was duking it out with Nigel Farage, disguised as Nigel Farage. Inside the Commons, Downing Street Dave was doing the same with Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian National…
It is only when you write Ed Miliband into the equation that you can start making sense of Jeremy Corbyn and Prime Ministers Questions. Regular readers will remember how Ed mastered the one step forward-several steps back, approach to PMQs…
It must have been a good speech because Jeremy was clapping his hands off. Then again it had been his speech, so he should know. There is always something slightly disconcerting about someone who applauds himself – unless you are…
Just when you thought Prime Ministers Questions could get no worse for the Labour Party – it got better. Just when you thought Jeremy Corbyn was as good as it gets – he took the day off. Just when you…
Michael Gove came as a set of curtains, the Lord Great Chamberlain came as Ronnie O’Sullivan and Speaker Bercow came as an antimacassar. The leader of the people’s party put the revolution on hold for the morning and came along…
Had he been anyone else, anywhere else, some kindly person might have taken him by the elbow and helped him back to his seat. But as he was Leader of the Labour Party and it was the House of Commons…
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