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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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 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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PMQs: Is Keir Starmer wise or weak?
The Labour leader is rarely ever judged to have skewered Boris Johnson, in part because he rarely tries.
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PMQs: Keir Starmer reminds Boris Johnson that Sue Gray isn’t his only problem
While partygate dominates, the Labour leader used his six questions to pile pressure on the Prime Minister over the cost-of-living…
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What we learned from the last PMQs before the local elections
Party leaders made their pitches to voters before polling day next week, but the cloud of sexism hangs over Westminster.
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What we learned from PMQs
The Brexit playbook is back.
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What we learned from this week’s PMQs
Keir Starmer pressured Boris Johnson on the cost-of-living crisis as partisan politics returned.
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What we learned from PMQs: Keir Starmer isn’t asking the tough questions
Many in parliament appear to have resigned themselves to Ukraine’s fall rather than demanding Britain do more to prevent it.
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Theresa May’s Commons attack on Boris Johnson shows revenge in politics is a sweet vindication
The offences against decency that Boris Johnson commits stain the body politic. The Tory party must now act.
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What we learned from this week’s PMQs
The convention preventing MPs from accusing each other of lying is proving unfit for the Boris Johnson era.
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What we learned from this week’s PMQs
Despite the launch of a police investigation, Boris Johnson has abandoned his tone of contrition.
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Is this the end for Boris Johnson?
Three ways Boris Johnson’s premiership could end – and three scenarios that could see him cling on.
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Dishy Rishi ditches PM with dash to Devonshire countryside
Go to the most politically consequential PMQs of Boris Johnson’s premiership? No, thank you. Our nature-loving Chancellor travelled 225 miles to…
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