10 h. 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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5 d. 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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6 d. 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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7 d. 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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8 d. 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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9 d. 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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1 week 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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2 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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2 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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2 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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2 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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2 w. ago QUENTIN LETTS: Moscow spies slumped at their monitors, sent into a coma by our oh

Russian spy ship Yantar, with a full complement of knobbly-headed Ivans, was spotted north of Scotland this week.

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2 w. ago QUENTIN LETTS: When Sir Keir enters a room a bank of windless mist descends

By his own standards the Prime Minister had a reasonable outing at PMQs. No bloopers. None of his opponents quite managed to harpoon him. Compared to recent weeks, almost a triumph.

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3 w. ago QUENTIN LETTS: While Mrs Badenoch was speaking, Sir Mel sucked on his lips and gazed in delight

Downing Street's grip on the agenda has unspooled so badly that yesterday we had two news conferences from Opposition parties reacting to a Budget that has not yet been delivered

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3 w. ago QUENTIN LETTS: How the Speaker was ambushed in a shadowy plot to move MPs out of Westminster for a 20

Westminster, which in medieval days was a mud-bound eyot called Thorney Island, has become the world's greatest symbol of parliamentary stability.

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3 w. ago QUENTIN LETTS: Ms Mahmood whacked out her plans. Behind her? Schism. Disgust. The Left was going nuts

At the despatch box stood Shabana Mahmood, a small, penetrating bundle of consonants and tight vowels as she whacked out her plans for the immigration system.

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3 w. ago QUENTIN LETTS: The minister was like my wife when she has a clear

Sometimes my wife announces a clear-out. She sweeps shelves free of clutter and promises that henceforth it will all be different.

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3 w. ago As Sir Keir told the Commons Labour are a 'united team', backbenchers stared, arms crossed, wondering: Can't we send him back and ask Ikea for a refund? writes QUENTIN LETTS

When thoroughly embogged, lie. Produce a whopper which will at least make people laugh. And so Sir Keir Starmer told a raucous PMQs that all was well in his Cabinet. 'This is a united team!'

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4 w. ago QUENTIN LETTS: Relating the fall of the BBC boss, Lisa Nandy could have been burying the family gerbil

After teatime, at an hour when most people at Broadcasting House were probably on their fifth jolt of neat gin, the Commons got round to discussing the BBC crisis.

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