PMQs: Sunak cornered on all sides over NHS strikes
Keir Starmer accused the PM of having “curled up in a ball and gone into hibernation” as a winter crisis…
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Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) is a constitutional convention whereby the prime minister answers questions from opposition MPs, held every Wednesday at noon while parliament is sitting. The practice of the prime minister taking questions at fixed times of the week was introduced by Harold Macmillan in 1961, on the recommendation of the House of Commons’ Procedure Committee, though the format has changed several times since then.
PMQs: Keir Starmer’s strategy is working
In today’s Conservative Party, MPs feel free to pick and choose which government policies to support. That makes Rishi Sunak…
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PMQs: Rishi Sunak on the ropes over tax breaks for private schools
Keir Starmer forced the Prime Minister to defend the charitable status of schools such as Winchester College, which charges £45,000…
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PMQs: The SNP’s defiant Ian Blackford takes centre stage
“The very idea that the United Kingdom is a voluntary union of nations is now dead and buried,” cried the…
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PMQs: Dominic Raab on the ropes
In a battle of the deputies, Angela Rayner struggled to capitalise on bullying claims against the Deputy Prime Minister.
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PMQs: the Gavin Williamson scandal makes Rishi Sunak look weak
The Prime Minister’s lacklustre performance in the Common today will not quell disquiet on the Tory backbenches.
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PMQs: Sunak will need more than tired lines about Brexit and Corbyn to land a blow on Labour
The Prime Minister may want to reopen old wounds, but the opposition is very clearly under different management.
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Rishi Sunak’s first PMQs exposes his political vulnerabilities
The Prime Minister struggled to defend the reappointment of Suella Braverman and his boast that he took public money out…
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Liz Truss survived PMQs, but all she has done is buy herself time
The ashen faces of Conservative MPs today suggest they know it's a matter of when she goes, not if.
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Liz Truss U-turns and fudges through her second PMQs
The Prime Minister has only two options: impose deep spending cuts, or ditch the mini-Budget.
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The coming autumn crisis
The new government faces a national emergency. If it responds accordingly, the Conservatives could yet remain in power.
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PMQs today: Liz Truss’s ideological dividing lines could be a gift to Labour
The Prime Minister’s performance was confident but her opposition to a windfall tax puts her in dangerous territory.
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Keir Starmer prepares to take on Liz Truss
The Labour leader will do battle over policy differences, not personality.
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PMQs: Boris Johnson warns that he’ll be back
At his final PMQs, Johnson made clear that he is as hungry for power as ever.
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PMQs today: Starmer takes aim at Sunak
Boris Johnson was a mere bystander as the Labour leader targeted the Tory candidates’ tax affairs.
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What Dominic Raab missed about Angela Rayner at Glyndebourne
Conservative class warfare is out of date.
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PMQs today: Boris Johnson is clinging on
It was confirmation, if anyone needed it, that the Prime Minister will not resign.
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PMQs: Dominic Raab and Angela Rayner leave a stale taste
The two deputies offered nothing to inspire as they dragged up embarrassing quotations from their opponent’s past.
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PMQs today: Starmer turns the strikes to his advantage
The Labour leader is using industrial action as a chance to frame the Tories as the party of the rich.
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PMQs: Keir Starmer dodges the Rwanda trap
The Labour leader avoided a row over deportations and doubled down on the issue likely to dominate the next general…
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