There is nothing like a by-election to breathe life into a moribund political party — unless it’s two by-elections. So for a few brief moments at lunchtime today, the kiss — or at least the peck of life — was applied to the corpse of the…
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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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You could tell there was trouble afoot by the appearance of the Health Secretary within slapping distance of Theresa May. The fear on his face gave the game away – it was tethered Jeremy Hunt time in the House of…
Earlier there had been some shouting about the situation in Syria and disquiet over the funding gap in social care. But that was as nothing when the longest Prime Ministers Questions in history made MP’s late for another Christmas lunch.…
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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.…
It was when Jeremy got his IMF’s mixed up with his IFS’s at PMQ’s that everyone LOL’d. Well not quite everyone since the Labour front bench developed a sudden interest in the chamber’s Pugin ceiling. But that was a good…
It was when a bloke called Robert somebody from Witney got up and started rabbiting on about high streets that you realised just how much the world has changed. The last bloke from Witney who rabbeted on at Prime Ministers…
The trouble with jokes at Prime Ministers Questions is that they tend to be sitting opposite you. Thus the introduction of Baldrick into proceedings today could only cause further confusion. It had all begun as indifferently as usual, with MPs…
It was Boris, the blonde-haired Billy Bunter of the cabinet, who gave the game away. Not that he did anything, but that was the point, he didn’t, and nor did anyone else. Welcome to Prime Ministers Questions on Wednesday October…
Read the PostTheresa May – The Mistress of equal indifference.