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…
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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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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.
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.…
Bumptious is the sort of word you carry in your back pocket hoping to find a sentence to stick it in. Just when you think you never will, up steps David Cameron, Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.…
Tory MP Michael Fabricant said it all yesterday when he used – as he later described it – “ an eight letter word beginning with ‘b’ and ending in ‘cks’.“ Mr Fabricant, for those who don’t know, is the MP…
It was all going so well until somebody mentioned David Cameron’s mam: suddenly it was high noon for handbags. Until then it had been the normally irrelevant Wednesday outing for Prime Ministers Questions. With Europe as the issue of the…
Had a hammock been slung from the ceiling of the chamber, David Cameron could have properly relaxed during Prime Ministers Questions. As it was he had to get by snuggling down on the front bench as he patiently waited for…
There may be times when it is possible to feel sorry for Dave of Downing Street. His party half hate him, Fleet Street half hate him and the Labour Party will whole hate him – when it gets over hating…