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Even 1980s game shows prove too cutting-edge for baffled peers
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Westminster’s WhatsApp addiction must end
Without accurate records, our politics is becoming less transparent – and less accountable.
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Whiplash on the Labour benches
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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The “Boriswave” problem
Why higher immigration is at the heart of the crisis facing Kemi Badenoch.
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What makes the toolmaker’s son tick?
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Labour is paying for its lack of a growth plan
Ministers wrongly believed that ending the Tory psychodrama would be enough to boost the economy.
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Battle of the charity single jingles
Your daily dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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MPs vote for assisted dying after an emotional debate
This was not parliament as usual.
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The Twelve Woes of Labour
Your daily dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Will parliament pass the assisted dying bill?
The closer we get to Friday’s vote, the more uncertain it all feels.
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Wanted: one Fleet Street hack
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Inside Kemi Badenoch’s shadow cabinet
The Tory leader bids to appease the party’s warring factions.
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The black-hole blame game
Were Labour's tax rises planned all along, or did the Tories force its hand?
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Labour’s economic tightrope
Having raised taxes and spending, Labour must now deliver improved services.
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Keir Starmer needs to stop prioritising trips abroad
While making international connections is important, the Prime Minister has voters at home to answer to.
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Robert Jenrick: shapeshifter or ideologue?
Critics think he is a populist willing to say anything, allies defend him as a principled reformer.
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From MP to pigs’ pee: how ejected Tories are faring on the jobs market
Your weekly dose of gossip from Westminster.
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Keir Starmer must tell a better story
The Prime Minister needs to offer hope as well as gloom.
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The gruelling campaign is over. Now we have a country to sort
Also this week: Nigel Farage to be bogged down by bins and neighbour disputes, and the Euros bringing about familial…
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