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Video: Bercow deftly owns Hammond – and entire govt
Chancellor Philip ‘Hapless’ Hammond received a surgical – and very funny – put-down from Speaker John Bercow in the House of Commons today after setting himself up perfectly for it, […]
Breaking: Tory 1922 chair Brady asks for meeting with May
Tory 1922 Committee chair Graham Brady has asked Theresa May for a meeting tomorrow, when she is back from her tour of EU leaders. He is expected to tell her […]
Lavery debunks cynical attempts to steer Labour into no-confidence vote
An unholy alliance of centrist Labour, Tory, LibDem and SNP figures has attempted to manoeuvre or force the Labour leadership into calling a vote of no confidence in spite of […]
Video: as May collapses, Newsnight gives Tories/centrists free reign to attack… Corbyn
The BBC’s unconstitutional bias appears to become more naked almost daily. On a day of ignominy and disarray for the government, with Theresa May unilaterally running away from a vote […]
Man arrested after jumping Parliament barriers
A man has been tackled and arrested by police officers after leaping security barriers at the Houses of Parliament, reportedly shouting ‘I’m coming for you politicians’. Nobody was injured in […]
Audio/comment: Downing St in chaos and swamped by O2 claim calls (!) as PM team flees
Comment The chaos infecting Theresa May’s non-government seems to have spread to Downing Street’s systems. The SKWAWKBOX’s attempts to call the Downing Street duty political press officer this evening met […]
Video: drama as Corbyn wins debate on govt cowardice and contempt
Just before 9pm this evening, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn won an emergency debate on the Tory government’s cowardice and contempt for Parliament, parliamentary procedure and our democracy. In a ‘you […]
May runs away from Brexit vote
Reports are starting to filter out that Theresa May has cancelled tomorrow’s key vote on her desperate Brexit withdrawal deal. The BBC has said reports are unconfirmed, but Bloomberg has […]
A tweet from Theresa May about #CashForSmears scandal. If only.
Last February, Tory MP and then-vice chair Ben Bradley had to put out a humiliating tweet to atone for a clearly libellous comment about Labour Jeremy Corbyn, after Corbyn’s lawyers […]
Excl: Labour to table Urgent Question re Tory public funds for smears
As a result of a written parliamentary question put by Labour MP Chris Williamson, the news broke this weekend that the government used public money to pay a private company of former […]