8 h. ago QUENTIN LETTS: As MPs break up for Christmas, the chumps (and a few champs) in my end

Citizens, it is safe to emerge from your shelters. The Westminster maniacs broke up yesterday. End-of-term prize-giving sees the following chumps recognised for their efforts in 2025:

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33 h. ago QUENTIN LETTS: Asked how he'd spend his final Christmas in No. 10, nasal knight Keir blinked... and pouted

Labour backbencher Antonia Bance, who represents the (quite possibly deaf) people of Tipton and Wednesbury, was louder than a Concorde in the Commons.

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3 d. ago Keir leaves your eyelids sticky with desire for sleep... the tedium of tone, an overwhelming greyness. What a stodge! QUENTIN LETTS AT WESTMINSTER

What happened to the aphrodisiac of power? In the orbit of a male PM even the most heterosexual chap used to feel a tingle, not exactly of lust - but of interest.

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3 d. ago Keir leaves your eyelids sticky with desire for sleep... the tedium of tone, an overwhelming greyness. What a stodge! QUENTIN LETTS AT PMQs

What happened to the aphrodisiac of power? In the orbit of a male PM even the most heterosexual chap used to feel a tingle, not exactly of lust - but of interest.

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7 d. ago MPs and peers could sit over Christmas break to pass workers' rights overhaul after Starmer's latest humiliating defeat in the Lords

Furious peers voted down a last-minute change to the Employment Rights Bill that could open the door to unlimited unfair dismissal payouts.

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8 d. ago QUENTIN LETTS: Covid face masks were suffocating, dehumanising, manky and damp and turned us into a nation of furtive, beaten souls bullied by goose

Must we 'really, really' heed Mr Elkeles and the other functionaries and ninnies who quickly echoed his demand for masks?

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8 d. ago Kemi's lipstick glistened with merriment as the oblong potato in front of her honked and hummed: QUENTIN LETTS sees Badenoch grill Starmer at PMQs

Each week Kemi Badenoch leans a little further across the Commons despatch box at PMQs, edging closer to Sir Keir Starmer . Each week he pretends to be unbovvered.

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8 d. ago Six London Labour MPs break rank to back rejoining Customs Union after Brexit blow to Britain

They include Dame Meg Hillier, Diane Abbott, Fleur Anderson, Marsha De Cordova, Dawn Butler and Bell Ribeiro-Addy

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9 d. ago QUENTIN LETTS: Brother Torsten shimmered, beamed and lovingly stroked his girlishly smooth throat...

Treasury Questions and Torsten Bell was in da building! Little Torsten is that London think-tanker who used to pop up on BBC programmes as an allegedly non-partisan commentator.

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9 d. ago New Brexit headache for Keir Starmer as 13 Labour MPs break ranks to back the creation of a new EU

The stunt by the Lib Dems will now go to another debate and vote after their support - and that of the Deputy Speaker - allowed it to pass by a single vote.

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2 w. ago QUENTIN LETTS: The genius of Starmer... just put off any election you look like losing

Sir Keir Starmer's people have hit on a brilliant way of not losing elections: keep postponing them. This, admittedly, means a junior minister must face tricky questioning in the Commons.

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2 w. ago QUENTIN LETTS: Kemi's confidence has grown... she looks much happier than the grey spud opposite her

There was a salty moment as Sir Keir Starmer left PMQs. 'Never again!' he was told by Sir Lindsay Hoyle. 'I'm not having it, forget it,' continued the enraged Speaker.

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2 w. ago QUENTIN LETTS: Mr Lammy claimed the Victims' Commissioner backed his proposal. In fact, she died a few weeks ago. Eek...

For Downing Street technicians, another disappointing day. They had again fitted the hypersonic Lammy to their launch pad and topped its liquid oxygen levels.

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2 w. ago The RMS Starmer was going round in circles, some crew trying to scuttle the ship, while the chief purser locked herself in her cabin: QUENTIN LETTS

Here at the worm farm we had a day of wriggling. Westminster's slippery invertebrates writhed and waved their maggoty forms in the air as they vied for supremacy.

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2 w. ago QUENTIN LETTS: Lie, lie, lie, lie... the word kept echoing round the cavern of her brain

A bruised, stale, defensive Rachel Reeves cut a sad figure on Sunday-morning television. It was not easy to watch. A boxing referee might have stepped in to put the Chancellor out of her misery.

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3 w. ago QUENTIN LETTS: Jenrick fired quality harrumphs by the yard, but where was Lammy?

David Lammy, previously a champion of the jury system, declined to come to the Commons to explain the Government's plans to, ahem, scrap juries for all but 'the most serious cases'.

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3 w. ago The Donald was given a free pass by Labour MPs over Ukraine peace agreement. Why are they so wet? QUENTIN LETTS watches PMQs...

Reform sustained some damage in the Commons for its 'pro-Putin' stance. Sir Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch biffed hard at Nigel Farage 's party.

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3 w. ago After this shower of Establishment flummery, if I were Trump I'd ask for $15billion: QUENTIN LETTS watches BBC bosses being grilled

Samir Shah, under-attack chairman of the even-more-in-the-mire BBC , tiptoed into the Commons culture committee.

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3 w. ago After this shower of Establishment flummery, if I were Trump I'd ask for $15 billion: QUENTIN LETTS watches BBC bosses being grilled

Samir Shah, under-attack chairman of the even-more-in-the-mire BBC , tiptoed into the Commons culture committee.

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3 w. ago Churches were RIGHT to refuse to help women posing as needy mothers begging for formula who went viral. No one else will say it, says QUENTIN LETTS... but this is why

Welfare cuts are not immoral, churches are not cash-dispenser machines and Christians, unless they can feed 5,000 people from five loaves and two Galilee sardines, are not mass caterers.

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