5 h. 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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20 h. 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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5 d. ago As their PM was cheered, his Grudge Sisters sat in stony silence: QUENTIN LETTS

The most interesting thing at PMQs was to be found two rows behind Sir Keir Starmer . There, snug beside one another, smouldered Angela Rayner and Lucy Powell. The Sisters Grudge.

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7 d. ago QUENTIN LETTS: Deputy PM David Lammy laughed theatrically but he was seething, his voice now near castrato

In the Commons David Lammy, Deputy PM and Justice Secretary, was fighting to save his career after the Epping sex offender was accidentally released from prison.

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9 d. ago QUENTIN LETTS: Panicky Labour is now losing more votes to Zack Polanski's loony Left Greens than it is to naughty Nigel Farage

QUENTIN LETTS: Hallowe'en arrived early for Sir Keir Starmer last week when an opinion poll found the Greens to be level with Labour. Eek! No wonder the Prime Minister is looking so knackered.

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1 week ago QUENTIN LETTS: Big Ange twisted her head right then left, as guileless as Little Weed between the flower pots...

One hour after PMQs, Labour MPs herded back to the Commons for a 'personal statement' from Angela Rayner , property dealer and ex-deputy PM. First appearance since her tax scandal downfall.

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1 week ago QUENTIN LETTS: Brother Jenrick whacked Prince Andrew then proposed a burka ban. Polite society will be appalled

To complete his day, he attended a Commons debate on the Sentencing Bill in which his sidekick Kieran Mullan complained about Labour ditching plans to castrate pederasts.

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2 w. ago QUENTIN LETTS: Speaker Hoyle was still right unchoofed about t'China spy case

What will become of the House of Lords if Nigel Farage 's Reform does well at the next general election?

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2 w. ago QUENTIN LETTS: Want to know why Labour has no hope of stopping the small boats? Meet the windy dullard in charge of border security

Martin Hewitt appeared at a parliamentary committee yesterday.To his CBE and QPM there should perhaps be added the OPD, the Order of Prize Dribblers.

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2 w. ago QUENTIN LETTS: 'She's not a lawyer,' Starmer snapped at Kemi. In his book, there's no worse insult

Here is what I saw when Sir Keir Starmer, MP, KC, PM, rose to his hind legs to try to ambush Kemi Badenoch on the Jonathan Powell-'China spying' affair.

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2 w. ago QUENTIN LETTS: 'She's not a laywer,' Starmer snapped at Kemi in his book... there's no worse insult

Here is what I saw when Sir Keir Starmer, MP, KC, PM, rose to his hind legs to try to ambush Kemi Badenoch on the Jonathan Powell-'China spying' affair.

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2 w. ago QUENTIN LETTS: Only Starmer could utter a word like 'statespersonship' without irony...

Sir Keir Starmer, inflating himself like something rubbery and faintly spermicidal, told Kemi Badenoch she was not a 'serious statesperson'.

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3 w. ago QUENTIN LETTS: Kemi picked Jarvis's argument clean like a Chinatown waiter deboning crispy duck

On autumn evenings you can still believe Westminster to be the Thames eyot the Saxons called 'Thorney Island'. Mists descend. The air tastes of leaf-mould.

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3 w. ago QUENTIN LETTS: As Bobby J held the wig, one almost expected it to bite him back, like Rod Hull's Emu

After stern words about the 'anti-British' attorney general Lord Hermer, Mr Jenrick turned to the audience and said, 'now you might be wondering what I have in this box'.

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4 w. ago QUENTIN LETTS: Sir Mel, fresh as a porpoise, gave a splendid speech. Alas, few were there to hear it

Dawn brought news from the office of Sir Melvyn Stride, Shadow Chancellor: 'Ten Things You Didn't Know About Mel.'

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4 w. ago QUENTIN LETTS: The sight of Maggie's old outfits at Tory conference is creepy. It's time for the party to end its obsession with her if it is to have any chance of a revival

Before the Conservatives win any election they will need to chime with 21st-century Britain and its voters. To use a German word, they will need to find the zeitgeist, writes Quentin Letts.

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4 w. ago QUENTIN LETTS: Kemi Badenoch stood there, small, still, musing in that smoky voice... not shouting like a larky fake

Arriving ath the Tory Party conference, writes QUENTIN LETTS, it could have been day one of a county cricket match (division two).

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