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Priti Patel sat motionless under fire as Boris Johnson flapped: HENRY DEEDES sees the Home Secretary endure a Labour barrage By Henry Deedes for the Daily Mail Published: 22:02 GMT, 4 March 2020 | Updated: 22:02 GMT, 4 March 2020 Jeremy Corbyn’s yellowing fangs were practically slobbering when he rocked up at PMQs yesterday. On … Read more
An icy morning and an early summons to Downing Street. The Prime Minister wished to lay out his plans to take on the coronavirus outbreak. There had been suggestions lately that Boris Johnson was not giving the escalating crisis due attention. Worse, that he was lying ‘doggo’, hoping it would all blow over. Time, then, … Read more
HENRY DEEDES: Michael Gove did one of his ‘there’s nothing to see here’ turns as he threw a blanket over the fire of the Priti Patel ‘bullying’ claims By Henry Deedes for the Daily Mail Published: 22:51 GMT, 2 March 2020 | Updated: 23:49 GMT, 2 March 2020 For 45 minutes yesterday afternoon Jeremy Corbyn … Read more
Michael Gove was charged with updating the House on the Government’s Brexit strategy yesterday. Of course he was. For years the Govester has been the Government’s man for big occasions. The closer, the ‘death’ bowler entrusted with the crucial last overs. Need to rally the troops? Send for Gove! Under the previous lot this was … Read more
Well, it was no knockout blow but it was certainly a decent jab to the sweetbreads. Sajid Javid’s resignation speech to the Commons yesterday may have lacked Sir Geoffrey Howe’s verbal pyrotechnics against Margaret Thatcher, but it will have rattled a few Downing Street teacups all the same. Modest, witty, stylishly courteous, the ex-chancellor’s ten-minute … Read more
Whenever John McDonnell addresses the Commons, weird things happen in Westminster. The entire parliamentary estate is gripped by unexplained phenomena. Dark nimbus clouds suddenly form over Big Ben. Birds stop tweeting. Flowers along New Palace Yard begin to wilt. Over on Parliament Square, excitable puppies abruptly cease their wagging and curl into defensive balls. It … Read more
Watching Priti Patel, it is impossible not to discern that she’s a bit of a prickly cactus. Her manner is cold, her visage somewhat pinched, while her resting expression tends towards, yes, I’m sorry, a smirk. When pressed on a matter, her lower jaw has a habit of jutting out confrontationally towards the person she … Read more