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Quentin Letts - Parliamentary sketchwriter

Quentin Letts, who joined the Daily Mail in the year 2000, first covered parliament as a sketchwriter when Margaret Thatcher was prime minister. Day after day, decade after decade, he has perched in the press gallery of the House of Commons and tried to catch a flavour of the Westminster scene and its changing cast. The political sketch, a genre peculiar to British newspapers, is a form of verbal cartoon that analyses the character of the elected wrigglers of the Commons and their ermine-collared counterparts in the House of Lords. He is not always complimentary about them - nor they about him!

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QUENTIN LETTS: The Colombian's interpreter at Ed Miliband's global energy shindig had a growly voice worthy of any Spaghetti Western bandido

24/04/25 10:24

Well that was a bit of a diplomatic floater. Ed Miliband's global energy shindig started yesterday at London's Lancaster House. The gilt-chandeliered room filled with climate-change illuminati and renewable-energy snoots from every corner of the civilised world. Self-congratulation suffused the air and it was all going swimmingly - they had just taken a delicious thrashing from a Barbadian lady who claimed her island was about to sink under the waves owing to global warming - when a chap from the Trump administration was handed the microphone....read

QUENTIN LETTS: Kemi produced a monocle-popper over Starmer's lack of 'balls'. I think I saw one of the clerks flinch
24/04/25 12:33
So, what was to happen after Kemi Badenoch said Sir Keir Starmer 'doesn't have the balls' to be honest about trans rights during the PMQs.
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Bridget looked likely to smash a pint glass in the nearest Hooray Henry's face - QUENTIN LETTS
23/04/25 12:16
The hot topic of the day was trans people, following the latest ruling by the Supreme Court. Sir Keir Starmer said he no longer believed blokes could be women. Make your mind up, sunshine.
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Treachery. Buck-passing. Dirty tricks. QUENTIN LETTS reveals why, as a daily observer of the Commons bear pit, I find the Easter story so timeless and compelling
20/04/25 01:00
This Easter Sunday, before pouncing on the chocolate eggs, let us imagine the scene in Jerusalem almost 2,000 years ago.
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QUENTIN LETTS: At every New Zero slight, Ed fumbled furtively with his lower lip... then left
12/04/25 11:42
Westminster Bills normally need months of scrutiny but this one whizzed through in roughly the time it takes to chill a Cotes de Gascogne. By the end of a captious day we certainly all needed a gargle.
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QUENTIN LETTS: The public seats were full, but soon visitors were slack-jawed statues, paralysed by boredom
08/04/25 08:25
With the world in Trumpian turmoil, an economy self-combusting and rats as big as centaurs cantering through Birmingham, the Commons liaison committee had 90 minutes to interrogate the PM.
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QUENTIN LETTS: The poohbahs were like aristocratic ladies confronted by the pong of fish
08/04/25 12:32
Bumpy sort of day for our political class. Stock markets were diving like guillemots and Net Zero sprang a leak - Labour was doing a reverse-ferret on electric car rules.
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Why we're being led by duds and dullards: From politics to big business, public life used to fizz with mavericks. This is what killed them off, reveals QUENTIN LETTS... as insiders tell me truth about Establishment's REAL objective
04/04/25 04:03
One hesitates to knee a man when he is down but Sir Justin Welby's farewell television interview last weekend was depressing. There is no kind way of saying this: he was unexceptionable.
QUENTIN LETTS: After Trump's tariffs, this was no time to dust down the gramophone and play Don't Let's Be Beastly To The Germans
04/04/25 12:21
We took a wallop from the USS Donald Trump; but as MPs emerged from shelters and the Speaker's secretary dispensed tin mugs of sugared tea, there was a consolation: the EU copped it worse.
QUENTIN LETTS: Reeves pranced in, her orbit tinkling with laughter. But on camera, she started sounding like a duck
02/04/25 07:08
With the economy smoking like a wonky Moskvitch, how was Rachel Reeves faring?Was she feeling under the cosh from Donald Trump's tariffs and the pratfall of her Budget?
QUENTIN LETTS: Once Robert Jenrick locks on to you, it's like seeing a Sidewinder missile chaser a Tiger Moth
01/04/25 10:42
QUENTIN LETTS: Shabana Mahmood's Tory shadow, Robert Jenrick, has had her in all sorts of difficulties over the Sentencing Council's 'two-tier justice' gambit.
QUENTIN LETTS: With all these summits, Sir Keir is becoming Westminster's answer to Sherpa Tenzing
31/03/25 10:28
QUENTIN LETTS: Summits were once rare events at which the leaders of the USSR and USA frostily shook hands.
My handsome, brave (and very jammy) older brother made life seem effortless. To him death was a bore, a fleeting phase. His final soothing words to me were: 'See you on the other side...': QUENTIN LETTS
29/03/25 01:46
Drizzle was falling on an English cathedral city as a 62-year-old contemplated his terminal cancer diagnosis.
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QUENTIN LETTS from Westminster: At last, she speaks! So that's what gnomic Whitehall operative Sue Gray sounds like
27/03/25 11:30
QUENTIN LETTS: Lady Gray of Tottenham (Lab) is better known as Sue Gray, the gnomic Whitehall operative who torpedoed Boris Johnson with her report on his lockdown birthday cake.
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QUENTIN LETTS: Wrists trembling, Reeves sounded shrivelled as she tried to blame 'the party opposite'...but everyone knows she has brought disaster on herself
26/03/25 04:07
The speech lasted 33 minutes, half the time of a real Budget. For all Labour's groans when Tories talked of 'an emergency Budget', this nonetheless felt like a big event.
QUENTIN LETTS from Westminster: One great oddity of the Assisted Dying Bill is that the MP with an undertaker's manner is pro-life!
25/03/25 11:46
QUENTIN LETTS: Yesterday saw the Bill's last committee stages, that part of the legislative process when a small group of MPs chews over details of a proposed law.
QUENTIN LETTS from Westminster: In a different life, Heidi could have dreamed of call-centre Oscars gold
24/03/25 11:47
QUENTIN LETTS: Despite jokes about the Chancellor being 'Rachel from customer complaints', the Transport Secretary, Heidi Alexander, is a stronger candidate for that role.
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Idleness is rotting Britain. The welfare budget is heading for £100BILLION. That's why it's our moral duty to slash benefits: QUENTIN LETTS
22/03/25 01:57
We could have done with Norman Tebbit in the Commons this week, if only for dramatic variety. MPs were discussing welfare cuts that turned out to be soggier than trailed.
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QUENTIN LETTS: Prof Powell was so tickled by her own remarks, she bared her gnashers like an Aintree winner
21/03/25 12:14
QUENTIN LETTS: A couple of days after Nasa 's stranded astronauts returned to Earth it fell to Lucy Powell, Leader of the Commons, to make an allusion to space travel.
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QUENTIN LETTS: Words are used like cheap marge in supermarket sandwiches. No one means what they say
20/03/25 12:42
QUENTIN LETTS: Sir Keir Starmer called Israel's latest attacks on Gaza 'truly shocking'. When Sir Keir says 'shocking', which he does quite often, he keeps his lips rigid like a ventriloquist.
QUENTIN LETTS: I didn't hear one word of concern for the poor devils whose taxes pay for these benefits
19/03/25 12:17
QUENTIN LETTS: Savings could have been several billions more but the Government crumbled with concessions. Tony Blair would not have caved in like that.
QUENTIN LETTS: Liz Kendall clutched her Marje Proops specs and did a bit of shouting at the Tories. But she was meant to be whackin' her OWN side!
17/03/25 10:00
Field Marshal Grigory Potemkin (d.1791) was the toyboy of Catherine the Great who allegedly tried to impress his empress by erecting house facades on the banks of the River Dnieper.
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QUENTIN LETTS on Keir Starmer's quango reform speech: As the blinky old sausage deserted his Centrist-Dad tax-and-spend liberalism, the fraudulence was magnificent... almost Trumpian
13/03/25 09:58
Downing Street chief of staff Morgan McSweeney arranged for the Prime Minister to deliver his speech at a Hull firm that makes disinfectant and condoms.
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QUENTIN LETTS from Westminster: Starmer looks less the startled bog-brush than he did before those Trump eruptions...
12/03/25 08:32
A PM active in international diplomacy may feel, on re-entering the Commons, that the national legislature is no longer sufficient for his grandeur.
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QUENTIN LETTS from Westminster: The new Jenrick has been on Ozempic and now boasts a Russian model's cheekbones. And he's driving Labour ministers crazy!
11/03/25 08:30
Mr Jenrick, runner-up in last year's Conservative leadership election, is now the shadow justice secretary and yesterday spent a profitable morning baiting his opposite number.
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QUENTIN LETTS from Westminster: Scary Bridget is good at only one thing - and that's class war-mongering
10/03/25 08:58
You can understand that the Kremlin might, at initial glance, mistake Ms Phillipson for a tough. 'Scary Bridget' does look and sound terrifying. Her upper lip curls like a piglet's tail.
QUENTIN LETTS: Like the Leyland Sherpa van in The Spy Who Loved Me, Jonathan Powell seems indestructible
06/03/25 10:13
QUENTIN LETTS: Parliament at its best: that's what Sir Keir Starmer keeps saying about Westminster's response to the Trump crisis.
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QUENTIN LETTS on PMQs: Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch clung to each other like two shipwreck survivors
05/03/25 08:31
QUENTIN LETTS: Water has stopped lapping against the bows. Westminster is becalmed. Thanks to Trump no one knows what to think, what to say, whom to attack.
QUENTIN LETTS: As chief stooge in this drama, JD Vance plays Smee to Trump's Captain Hook
04/03/25 09:37
At this rate we may need more smelling salts. Urgent signal to quartermasters: sal volatile stocks dangerously low, please resupply soonest.
QUENTIN LETTS from Westminster: Jutting out his Buzz Lightyear jaw, Keir Starmer got louder cheers from the Tories than his own side
03/03/25 10:00
Twenty-two years ago some of us watched Tony Blair being cheered more by the Tories than by his own MPs as he lured us to war in Iraq .
QUENTIN LETTS: The PM patted the presidential shoulder - child strokes lion at zoo - but Trump barely noticed
27/02/25 10:11
QUENTIN LETTS: Sir Keir initially looked terrified. Donald Trump, less chunky than of old but still a big unit, took possession of his small visitor with a six-second handshake.
QUENTIN LETTS: Kemi's good wishes for Starmer's US visit were the sort of thing you say to a 2nd XI gladiator off to face the Circus Maximus lions
26/02/25 05:44
Poor old Starmer was plainly dreading his trip to Washington to see Dr Strangelove and chums. He began PMQs by honking 'this afternoon, of course, I will travel to the US'.
QUENTIN LETTS: From Kinshasa to Bogota, bosses of Mercedes dealerships and the better sort of brothel were inconsolable!
25/02/25 10:52
The penny has dropped. Actually, make that 600billion pennies. Sir Keir Starmer came to the Commons before lunch to say he was chopping overseas aid almost in half.
M. Macron lifted a haw-he-haw Gallic eyebrow as Trump grimaced like a tortoise: QUENTIN LETTS watches the French President enter Donald's lair
24/02/25 09:18
There is no man better for flagornerie than the French president, Emmanuel Macron, who can make the most blatant exercise in sucking-up sound ornate and rather Louis Quatorze.
Artificial intelligence isn't half as clever as it thinks - as I proved by making it believe this gobsmackingly silly lie!: QUENTIN LETTS
17/02/25 01:36
We once talked of 'Reds under the bed' but it might soon be 'Commies in the keyboard'. There are claims that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is skewed to the Left.
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QUENTIN LETTS from Westminster: Stolichnayas all round in Moscow to cheers this drab specimen
13/02/25 08:19
QUENTIN LETTS: When Putin launched his 'special military operation' three years ago, the Commons swelled with MPs proclaiming blood-brother support for Ukraine.
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QUENTIN LETTS from PMQs: Kemi Badenoch makes the nasal knight sound like a broad-brush bluffer
12/02/25 09:36
QUENTIN LETTS: Prime Minister's Questions again saw a short, earnest young woman fling herself against a wall of industrial noise, licking her teeth, shaking her braids.
QUENTIN LETTS from Westminster: Kim Leadbeater jabbered through amendments like a compere at the Buzz Bingo up in Leeds
11/02/25 08:30
QUENTIN LETTS from Westminster: One doesn't like to say this too loudly but Kim Leadbeater's assisted dying Bill is not looking too good.
QUENTIN LETTS from Westminster: Fear of Lord Hermer the Bogey Man is rampant in Whitehall - and ministers are terrified
10/02/25 08:58
The mere thought of the Bogey man is paralysing. The same can be said of Lord Hermer KC, who is still Attorney General despite a tooth-loosening biff from fellow Labour peer Lord Glasman.
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Who triumphed when QUENTIN LETTS, the scourge of needless nanny-ism, took a spin in a computerised 'safety coach' car that's built to be bossy
08/02/25 10:25
Mr Toad poop-pooped his horn and rejoiced at motoring's wind-rushing liberty. So can the rest of us. In everyday life we face constraints: mortgages, in-laws, pesky employers and spouses.
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QUENTIN LETTS from Westminster: Ministers will only put up with looking like schmucks for defending Starmer's old chum for so long...
06/02/25 10:00
Lord Hermer is Attorney General, a position that normally attracts minimal interest.
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QUENTIN LETTS on PMQs: Sir Keir Starmer steamed into the Commons, buttocks like two halves of a walnut
05/02/25 08:15
QUENTIN LETTS: VEXATIONS, vexations. Sir Keir Starmer was scathingly peevish at PMQs. Labour backbenchers bawled with a belligerence unusual even for the Commons.
QUENTIN LETTS from Westminster: Ed Miliband sprayed his opponents with slobbery derision. He was gonna win - hell yeah!
04/02/25 09:12
QUENTIN LETTS: Ed Miliband surges on, heroically undented by disaster, the Bognor Birdman convinced he is going to fly.
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QUENTIN LETTS: Pity poor Leonie Mellinger, voice coach to Keir Starmer who is a bunged-up, hedgehog ball of frowns
03/02/25 08:43
We heard the fruits of her labours yesterday when Sir Keir gave a press conference at Nato. Poor Leonie. Can her professional reputation ever recover?
Quentin Letts from Westminster: Swathed in purple faux fur, this new Lib Dem MP could have wandered into the Commons from a Courmayeur chalet bar
31/01/25 01:14
Some people fear Artificial Intelligence. They fret about the lack of human touch, its robotic nature, the threat it may pose to our freedom.
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QUENTIN LETTS: As Channel 4's gripping drama Brian and Maggie concludes, a throwback to a time when politicians faced real TV grillings instead of being interviewed by their husbands like Yvette Cooper!
30/01/25 12:16
Though from different parties, they were both working-class challengers to the old order and they bonded.
QUENTIN LETTS: Rachel Reeves aimed that Claudia Winkleman fringe at the TV cameras and roared in a forced contralto for 45 minutes when delivering her growth speech
29/01/25 09:37
If the Chancellor hoped to give the impression of a shrewd steward of the public purse she had an odd way of going about it.
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QUENTIN LETTS from Westminster: As Sir Chris's two poached egg eyes gazed at us, all the misery of lockdown came rushing back
28/01/25 09:08
Repeatedly Sir Chris and other witnesses begged MPs to keep the law on assisted dying 'clear and simple'. He added: 'The more ambiguity, the more difficult it becomes for patients and families'.
QUENTIN LETTS from Westminster: You could've put a marshmallow on Ed Miliband's pointed finger and roasted it over a campfire
27/01/25 08:58
QUENTIN LETTS:Ed Miliband's fingers! Net Zero secretary Ed was at a select committee, fighting sinuously to squash Rachel Reeves 's let's-expand-Heathrow noises.
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QUENTIN LETTS: Five years after we left the EU, the Rejoiner elite is STILL trying to drag us back to Brussels. But Brexit HAS been a success - and here's why...
27/01/25 01:45
At 11pm on January 31, 2020, Big Ben's bongs played forth and a packed Parliament Square cheered as Britain officially left the European Union.
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QUENTIN LETTS at Westminster: The Attorney General 'conflict of interest row' becomes riper by the day. The more that ministers pooh-pooh it, the fiercer the pong
23/01/25 09:34
QUENTIN LETTS: Today the Tories were finally granted a Commons urgent question into the conduct of Attorney General Lord Hermer, who was Sir Keir Starmer's best friend at the bar.
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QUENTIN LETTS at Westminster: I nearly pulled out a hanky and gave a wave as HMS John Healey sailed off to war
22/01/25 11:46
QUENTIN LETTS: Breathless stuff. Defence Secretary John Healey dashed to the Commons to give a lunchtime statement about Russian spy ship Yantar.
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QUENTIN LETTS: Starmer's bid to be Father of the Nation fell flat amid a locust cloud of cliches. He was Hamlet as cast by human resources
21/01/25 05:14
QUENTIN LETTS: Put aside any ideology. On a subject such as this, one wanted him to find a princely tone. Sir Keir Starmer summoned the TV cameras to Downing Street.
QUENTIN LETTS: Poor Rushanara sensed the stare of her boss Big Ange drilling into her spine ...and looked like she might be sick
20/01/25 09:22
Feeling got-at by the Starmer Government? It could be worse. Imagine working as one of Angela Rayner's ministers.
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QUENTIN LETTS: Starmer's lurching from boob to mishap - but the minute there's a crisis he locks himself in the loo. After claiming to be as pure as a teetotal missionary, the Man With All The Wrong Answers is about to get his comeuppance...
19/01/25 11:57
These are bumpy days for Lords of the Bedchamber. They, in history, were a king's most intimate courtiers, their fortunes closely allied to those of the monarch they served.
QUENTIN LETTS from Westminster: Wearing more make-up than Julian Clary, Sir Ed talked tough on Trump!
17/01/25 01:35
He proposed to deny the incoming US president any white-tie dinner with the Royal Family.
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QUENTIN LETTS: The Attorney General has a delight in the sound of his own voice, his beachball face beaming with insincere unction
16/01/25 12:28
Meet Attorney General Lord Hermer KC, FOK. The second acronym, if you were wondering, stands for 'Friend of Keir'.
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QUENTIN LETTS from Westminster: The Tories talked of Shakespearean tragedy - but Rachel Reeves is an amazingly bad actor for a politician as she was quizzed over the markets meltdown
14/01/25 08:06
No longer mistress of all she surveys, no longer empress of the horizon, Rachel Reeves crouched on the Commons front bench with a knot of her closest supporters. Six fretful souls at a bus stop.
QUENTIN LETTS: Starmer, that dull old vegan sausage, waddled up to the lectern - and bored the Y-fronts off us all for 20 minutes
13/01/25 07:40
Every week it happens and every week the dull, old vegan sausage is blown off course by some news sensation.
QUENTIN LETTS: Nothing to see here, people. Alas, the minister's strangulated, panicky timbre - plus, perhaps, a slightly sweaty bulge to his eyeballs - suggested otherwise
09/01/25 04:36
Rachel Reeves declined to answer a mid-morning Commons discussion of the state of the economy. Whitehall aides possibly couldn't prise her fingers off the banister at the Treasury.
QUENTIN LETTS: Mrs Badenoch was asking serious questions about raw events. Ms Phillips was gurning like a solipsistic goon
08/01/25 06:12
After 15 minutes of taut tussles with the Prime Minister, Kemi Badenoch concluded her PMQs remarks by naming some of the towns where gangs 'systematically gang-raped children'.
QUENTIN LETTS from Westminster: Did Big Ange just compare her housing policy to the Titanic? Indeed she did!
07/01/25 08:50
Big Ange had sauntered up the corridor beforehand with a careless confidence while her permanent secretary, Sarah Healey, had already been there for some time.
QUENTIN LETTS: Sir Keir Starmer's vow not to deign to discuss Elon Musk lasted no longer than many New Year's resolutions
06/01/25 08:49
Sir Keir was so worked-up his teeth went horsey and he nearly snapped the pen he borrowed from an aide. When Patterdale terriers are in this mood it is better not to give them a glimpse of your postman's ankle.
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QUENTIN LETTS: Sadly Keir's joke about the Budget perking up the economy didn't get the long laugh it richly deserved
20/12/24 01:51
These sessions are notorious for being turgid waffle-fests yet Sir Keir sat before the U-shaped table with discernible excitement, writes QUENTIN LETTS.
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QUENTIN LETTS at PMQs: The only cabinet ministers who looked cheerful were Angela Rayner and Wes Streeting. Might they be fancying their chances?
18/12/24 10:25
QUENTIN LETTS breaks down the last PMQs of the year and asks if Angela Rayner and Wes Streeting fancy their chances for a shot at the Prime Minister
QUENTIN LETTS: Is Sir Keir Starmer about to face a massive rebellion in light of Labour's betrayal of WASPI women?
17/12/24 10:30
Are the wormlets starting to turn? Backbench Labour MPs, so rapturous since July, showed the first signs of independence.
QUENTIN LETTS from the Commons: Hostile foreign states stealing 'intellectual property' from Prince Andrew? Good one!
16/12/24 09:51
Walls have ears and if I say too much I'll have to slip you a radioactive wonton; but in the Commons the security minister, Dan Jarvis, discussed suspected Chinese security asset H6.
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QUENTIN LETTS: A policy that could wreck so many towns was delivered with a nurse's manner... sympathetic but firm
12/12/24 11:50
QUENTIN LETTS: Westminster was scandalised. A Tory frontbencher, Kevin Hollinrake, did something unforgivable: he spoke the obvious.
QUENTIN LETTS: Starmer, the startled lavatory brush, was twitching. Twinkle eyed Kemi makes him VERY cross
11/12/24 10:01
QUENTIN LETTS: My desk is by a window under Westminster's Elizabeth Tower, formerly Clock Tower. It overlooks Parliament Square, where tractors are currently blowing their horns.
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QUENTIN LETTS: The Commons fell silent as Richard Holden detailed birth defects which first cousin marriages could make more likely
10/12/24 08:56
QUENTIN LETTS: Iqbal Mohamed, an Independent MP, made eyeballs bulge a little by leaping to his hind legs and defending our right to hop into wedlock with a kinsman.
QUENTIN LETTS from the Commons: Churning on half a propeller, this was a bluff-athon from David Lammy when discussing Syria
09/12/24 08:56
The Foreign Secretary lumbered into the Commons and proceeded to claim that Syria was 'next door' to Libya. Close. They are only a thousand miles apart.
QUENTIN LETTS: From bashing meat-eating to air travel, Labour's hectoring killjoys are dragging Britain to peak nanny statism. And I know the deceitful desires behind it
08/12/24 12:59
In recent weeks there has been a rat-a-tat-tat of official denunciations: of meat-eating, milk-drinking, nicotine usage, adverts for yogurts, air travel, internal combustion engines and gas boilers.
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Seven PILLARS, six MILESTONES, five MISSIONS, three FOUNDATIONS - but not ONE firm target to cut migration. Our sketch writer QUENTIN LETTS endures Starmer's bingo hall parade of buzzwords and political nerdspeak
05/12/24 10:16
QUENTIN LETTS: Pinewood film studios have, over the decades, seen their share of box-office flops and glass-jawed boobies who thought they were God's gift.
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QUENTIN LETTS: Starmer's blunder over Boris showed that, under pressure, he cracks like a walnut
04/12/24 10:15
QUENTIN LETTS: Kemi Badenoch, leading the interrogation: 'What was that further information?'
QUENTIN LETTS: Reeves was negativity in a plum suit... as if she'd had too much cod liver oil
03/12/24 09:39
QUENTIN LETTS: Alas, it does not seem to be happening. Her Budget whacked growth and jobs. Retail figures are bad, car-makers are on the skids and the housing market has lockjaw.
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QUENTIN LETTS on Commons Chagos Islands question: Tories rushed in, ready for another calamity from Keir's hit factory
02/12/24 08:33
Defence minister Luke Pollard began his speech with only six Labour MPs on parade. Just three of them wished to contribute.
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After a doleful day to see the assisted dying bill pass its second reading... Kim Leadbeater was weirdly chirpy, gabbling... with shades of Jimmy Clitheroe, writes QUENTIN LETTS
29/11/24 11:55
A doleful day ended with this inexperienced Commons voting, 330 to 275, for assisted dying.It would be the State providing that assistance.
QUENTIN LETTS: How the late Queen heard hot gossip from a flunkey about Boris's brush with death
28/11/24 10:58
Vested interests were doing their thing - vesting away - in a Lords debate about the politicisation of Whitehall.
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QUENTIN LETTS at PMQs: Sir Keir became peevish with Kemi, his right eyebrow shooting skywards like a leaping salmon
27/11/24 09:45
PMQs was lively. The political tide is racing, the sea's swell is rising and Labour's new matelots are starting to look a little aquamarine around the gills.
QUENTIN LETTS: Creaky Liz Kendall sounded like a Hollywood vamp when unveiling her plan to tackle worklessness. Close your eyes and it could've been Zsa Zsa Gabor
26/11/24 09:00
Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall has the trickiest job in the Starmer Cabinet: trying to buoy employment while Rachel Reeves and Ed Miliband brew their job-squandering nostrums.
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