16 h. ago QUENTIN LETTS from Westminster: At last, she speaks! So that's what gnomic Whitehall operative Sue Gray sounds like

QUENTIN LETTS: Lady Gray of Tottenham (Lab) is better known as Sue Gray, the gnomic Whitehall operative who torpedoed Boris Johnson with her report on his lockdown birthday cake.

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64 h. ago QUENTIN LETTS from Westminster: One great oddity of the Assisted Dying Bill is that the MP with an undertaker's manner is pro

QUENTIN LETTS: Yesterday saw the Bill's last committee stages, that part of the legislative process when a small group of MPs chews over details of a proposed law.

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3 d. ago QUENTIN LETTS from Westminster: In a different life, Heidi could have dreamed of call

QUENTIN LETTS: Despite jokes about the Chancellor being 'Rachel from customer complaints', the Transport Secretary, Heidi Alexander, is a stronger candidate for that role.

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2 w. ago QUENTIN LETTS from Westminster: Starmer looks less the startled bog

A PM active in international diplomacy may feel, on re-entering the Commons, that the national legislature is no longer sufficient for his grandeur.

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2 w. ago QUENTIN LETTS from Westminster: The new Jenrick has been on Ozempic and now boasts a Russian model's cheekbones. And he's driving Labour ministers crazy!

Mr Jenrick, runner-up in last year's Conservative leadership election, is now the shadow justice secretary and yesterday spent a profitable morning baiting his opposite number.

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2 w. ago QUENTIN LETTS from Westminster: Scary Bridget is good at only one thing

You can understand that the Kremlin might, at initial glance, mistake Ms Phillipson for a tough. 'Scary Bridget' does look and sound terrifying. Her upper lip curls like a piglet's tail.

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3 w. ago QUENTIN LETTS on PMQs: Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch clung to each other like two shipwreck survivors

QUENTIN LETTS: Water has stopped lapping against the bows. Westminster is becalmed. Thanks to Trump no one knows what to think, what to say, whom to attack.

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3 w. ago QUENTIN LETTS from Westminster: Jutting out his Buzz Lightyear jaw, Keir Starmer got louder cheers from the Tories than his own side

Twenty-two years ago some of us watched Tony Blair being cheered more by the Tories than by his own MPs as he lured us to war in Iraq .

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