6 h. 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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34 h. 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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54 h. 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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3 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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7 d. 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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9 d. 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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1 week 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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1 week 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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1 week 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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3 w. ago Inside the astonishing return of Christianity in Britain... and how it's being driven by a young generation who are fed

Christmas carols evoke certain images: Choristers in ruffs, wise men from the orient and now, please, the often angry Right-winger Tommy Robinson, writes QUENTIN LETTS.

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4 w. ago QUENTIN LETTS: As MPs break up for Christmas, the chumps (and a few champs) in my end

Citizens, it is safe to emerge from your shelters. The Westminster maniacs broke up yesterday. End-of-term prize-giving sees the following chumps recognised for their efforts in 2025:

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4 w. ago QUENTIN LETTS: Asked how he'd spend his final Christmas in No. 10, nasal knight Keir blinked... and pouted

Labour backbencher Antonia Bance, who represents the (quite possibly deaf) people of Tipton and Wednesbury, was louder than a Concorde in the Commons.

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