The Chancellor sounded as if he was auditioning for a role in the Christmas panto.
The MP for Enfield Southgate helped to sink tax credit and Sunday Trading changes – and now has eye on the Government’s housing benefit plans for young people.
May faces such derisory opposition that her game is bound in time to lose its edge.
Charged with managing Whitehall, trouble-shooting, clocking Sturgeon, and preparing government for Brexit, his workload would make lesser mortals crumble.
The situation is volatile, but on balance it is more likely that Labour will hang on, and that Paul Nuttall will be the first victim of Thursday’s by-election.
Her refusal to gossip with journalists makes her serious.
Macmillan’s efforts succeeded because Churchill backed him fully. The Communities Secretary is not in the same happy position with May.
Parliamentary sovereignty has become fashionable among Europhiles who used to consider it barbaric.
He says that while Birmingham itself and Solihull are particularly buoyant, large parts of the region feel that they have missed out on growth.
Davis and Starmer said the EU referendum result must be respected, but Clarke upheld MPs’ right to defy it.
We never thought we would write the words “Bring back Ed Miliband”.
His critics have fallen for the Fact-Checking Fallacy: the illusion that in politics or journalism, accurate facts are all that matter.
But Corbyn at least managed to start better than he would have done a year ago.
The Culture, Media and Sport Committee Chairman says that the key is for IPSO to adopt a Leveson-compliant system of low-cost arbitration.