5 h. 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 d. 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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5 d. 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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5 d. 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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6 d. 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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9 d. 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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1 week 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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1 week 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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1 week 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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1 week 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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1 week 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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2 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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2 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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2 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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2 w. ago Prisoner was mistakenly counted among those at large after early release

Over the weekend, it was reported that a total of four offenders had been released in error, with two released in June this year, and two in 2024.

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3 w. ago Two of four prisoners still at large were freed by mistake last year

Another two, who are understood to have been freed in error in June this year, also remain missing.

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3 w. ago QUENTIN LETTS: Lammy told MPs 'we will never forget' but he bleedin' forgot his poppy, didn't he?

A farce ensued for 15 minutes before a colleague managed to slap one on his right lapel when she thought no one was watching.

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3 w. ago Rachel Reeves was a wan prophet of perdition, honking like a faulty cyborg: QUENTIN LETTS

Few of us are at our best before breakfast but Rachel Reeves' early-morning speech was a horror show.

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3 w. ago QUENTIN LETTS: Reeves was a wan prophet of perdition honking like a malfunctioning cyborg

Few of us are at our best before breakfast but Rachel Reeves's early-morning speech was a horror show.

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3 w. ago QUENTIN LETTS: MPs used to treat Whitehall's panjandrums with awe. Now they snort at them with open ridicule

Sir Olly Robbins, the incumbent, described himself as 'Peter Mandelson's line manager'. If Peter ever uttered the term 'line manager' it would have been greased with irony.

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