2 h. ago QUENTIN LETTS: The nasal knight kept saying he wouldn't yield. All right, all right, we got it... he had a new word!

Sir Keir Starmer wanted to sound resolute. Man of iron, that sort of thing. 'I know,' said some bright spark in No 10. 'Why don't we use the verb "yield"?' Everyone agreed that this was a capital idea.

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48 h. ago QUENTIN LETTS: There was a drained despair to the PM. Was he regretting past sucking up to Trump?

Sir Keir Starmer scrapped a Monday morning jaunt to Yorkshire and summoned an emergency news conference in Downing Street. Subject: Greenland, but really it was about Donald Trump.

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6 d. ago QUENTIN LETTS: With a glint in her eye, Kemi pounced on the Great Xerox Bungle and assassinated her ex

Kemi Badenoch recently acquired a chunky new leather handbag. At 11.06am we learned that it contained a Kalashnikov.

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7 d. ago QUENTIN LETTS: Starmer's Kama Sutra joke felt desperate, studenty, prattish and mouldy. He'd make a dreadful best man

The prime minister was being teased by Kemi Badenoch about his numerous U-turns. He did not like it. And so he flipped.

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8 d. ago QUENTIN LETTS: Not a single backbench MP backed the new spy base

Not a single backbencher supported the planned London spy base - sorry, I do apologise, I mean embassy. Even some of Labour's most assiduous greasers criticised the proposal.

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9 d. ago QUENTIN LETTS: Wearing enough rope to lasso a bullock, new defence chief talked bullet points not bullets

Our new Chief of Defence Staff was at the defence select committee. Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Knighton came sloping down the corridor beforehand.

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1 week ago QUENTIN LETTS: Why does Labour so hate pubs? Is it because people gather in such places to ask one another 'isn't Starmer a pillock?'

Roads minister Lilian Greenwood, removing the L plates from her bonnet, nosed into the fast lane. Our Lilian, conscientious but underpowered, was making a Commons statement on road safety

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2 w. ago Everyone's saying Miliband will be the next Chancellor. And by gosh, he's looking pleased with himself... QUENTIN LETTS watches PMQs

With le tout Westminster now tipping him to become our next Chancellor, Ed Miliband came dude-walking into the Commons for energy questions. Mr Miliband led with his teeth.

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2 w. ago QUENTIN LETTS: With so many of Labour's troops deserting him, the PM may need a few bodyguards of his own from Cuba

A fullish Commons finally discussed Venezuela. Kemi Badenoch was there, the Lib Dems' portly Sir Ed Davey was there; we even had both of Your Party's leaders, Comrades Corbyn and Sultana.

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2 w. ago Here are Quentin Letts' gloriously irreverent caricatures from the past year at Westminster. So can you guess his victims?

From that Budget disaster to Trump's swaggering on the world stage, 2025 was a year of new lows in politics.

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2 w. ago QUENTIN LETTS: British voters are fed up with mass immigration, 'two tier' policing and welfarism. They're moving to the Right in droves... so when will selfish Labour MPs wake up?

Early alarm calls at this time of year are brutal. Christmasis over, a new year has begun - and the mornings are black.

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