It was the biggest budget U-turn since the last biggest budget U-turn. It wasn’t Pastygate — it was Hammondgate. All the Captain had to do was place the ball firmly in the back of the net — and the keeper had gone for an…
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It was the Tom sized hole next to Jeremy Corbyn which finally confirmed that he and his deputy have had another big falling out. This was a useful row since it cleared space for at least half a dozen women…
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…
Imagine, if you can, a cod wearing a string of small snooker balls gasping for air and you have the Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland at five past twelve today. It was meant to be Prime Ministers…
This space had been reserved to record the evisceration of Theresa May by Jeremy Corbyn over Donald Trump’s ban on Muslims. It’s still available. It was to have been the Labour leader’s finest hour but it wasn’t even his ok…
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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Those who are humble will inherit the earth, said the pastor, Not while I’m in charge, said the 45th President of the United States And so began the reign of Donald J. Trump.As he started to speak, it started…
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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