QUENTIN LETTS from Westminster: Ed Miliband sprayed his opponents with slobbery derision. He was gonna win

4 days, 17 hours ago

QUENTIN LETTS: Wrists trembling, Reeves sounded shrivelled as she tried to blame 'the party opposite'...but everyone knows she has brought disaster on herself

How vulnerable this once-confident Chancellor looked. ‘The party opposite.the party opposite.’ She claimed, implausibly, that her plans were working. ‘The party opposite.the party opposite.’ Yet the country knows she has brought disaster on herself. Young Oliver Ryan, still suspended from Labour for ‘bringing the party into disrepute’ – if that is possible with political parties – was the most ardent …

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3 weeks, 4 days ago

QUENTIN LETTS on PMQs: Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch clung to each other like two shipwreck survivors

Daily Mail

Water has stopped lapping against the bows. At PMQs Sir Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch clung to each other like shipwreck survivors. Labour MPs may have cheered Sir Keir’s arrival in the chamber just before midday, for they have an inchoate sense that he is creating a diplomatic personality for himself and that that may be an electoral asset; yet …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

QUENTIN LETTS on PMQs: Sir Keir Starmer steamed into the Commons, buttocks like two halves of a walnut

Daily Mail

Sir Keir Starmer was scathingly peevish at PMQs. She meant three London human-rights lawyers: Sir Keir, his attorney general Lord ‘Hapless’ Hermer and their friend Philippe Sands KC, who has represented Mauritius. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaks at the despatch box at Prime Minister's Questions Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch said the Chagos deal was ‘an immoral surrender' Referring …

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2 months, 1 week ago

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 A

Daily Mail

These are bumpy days for Lords of the Bedchamber. His lordship is Sir Keir’s oldest chum at the bar and, like Philippe Sands, gave thousands of pounds in political donations to achieve a Starmer government. In her first Budget, Sir Keir’s Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, succeeded only in tilting the economy back towards higher interest payments for working people’s mortgages. Meanwhile …

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3 months, 1 week ago

QUENTIN LETTS: Sadly Keir's joke about the Budget perking up the economy didn't get the long laugh it richly deserved

Daily Mail

His poll ratings are diving like a guillemot and the economy has stalled at the traffic lights but Sir Keir Starmer could not have been more delighted with himself. For Starmer KC, it seems, life’s ambition was to sit opposite the prosaic boobies of the liaison committee and be quizzed on the grinding minutiae of his government’s ‘delivery’. Prime Minister …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

QUENTIN LETTS: Starmer, the startled lavatory brush, was twitching. Twinkle eyed Kemi makes him VERY cross

Daily Mail

This column is brought to you from a deranged tunnel of noise. Yesterday she focused on immigration, and Sir Keir and Labour MPs adopted scoffing expressions. The witless Downie adopted an innocent expression but the Speaker was having none of it and told him, with rare asperity: ‘If you haven’t got the guts to stand up the comment, you shouldn’t …

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

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

Daily Mail

When we talk of finger-wagging politicians it is generally in the figurative sense. Where the prophet Moses had his staff and Sir Simon Rattle his maestro’s baton, Energy Secretary Mr Miliband has that forefinger. Where the prophet Moses had his staff and Sir Simon Rattle his maestro’s baton, Energy Secretary Ed Miliband has that forefinger, writes QUENTIN LETTS After the …

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

QUENTIN LETTS: Starmer's blunder over Boris showed that, under pressure, he cracks like a walnut

Daily Mail

We may need Monsieur Poirot. On a day the Prime Minister descended to panicky slander, MPs were told that former transport secretary Louise Haigh vanished only after ‘further information came forward’ about her bad behaviour. On a day the Prime Minister descended to panicky slander, MPs were told that former transport secretary Louise Haigh vanished only after ‘further information came …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

QUENTIN LETTS: The president of Azerbaijan called fossil fuels a 'gift from God'. Ed Miliband nearly swallowed his teeth

Daily Mail

Recent days have seen something of a batting collapse for the Left. Since Rachel Reeves's Budget Day duck we have seen Donald Trump elected in the US, the German government collapse and West Country farmers load muck-spreaders for a march on London. The same Mr Aliyev is a business contact of Sir Tony Blair and has been in power since …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

QUENTIN LETTS: Ankle-biter Priti may upset Ferrero Rocher pyramids in embassy land

Daily Mail

Kemi Badenoch announced her shadow cabinet on the day of the US presidential election. Dame Priti Patel as shadow foreign secretary was a friskier proposition and may upset Ferrero Rocher pyramids in embassy land. Dame Priti Patel as shadow foreign secretary was a friskier proposition she is one of life’s ankle-biters and it will be interesting to see her at …

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5 months ago

QUENTIN LETTS: Starmer pinched together the tips of his chipolata fingers like a chef describing the perfect ravioli

Daily Mail

Birmingham's Rep theatre, which has seen its share of duds over the years, was the venue for a pre-Budget speech by Sir Keir Starmer. Pictured: Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer meeting Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves at Downing Street ahead of the Government's first budget on Wednesday Much of the speech was about 'working people' and how he – …

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5 months, 2 weeks ago

QUENTIN LETTS: Keir opened the sewer gates and whoosh... Out flooded his rehearsed anti-Tory rant

Daily Mail

Labour MPs had been primed. Sir Keir and his wife Victoria previously attended a Taylor Swift concert at Wembley on 21 June, during the singer's first run of shows at the stadium this summer Sir Keir had a ten-minute chat with Ms Swift and her mother backstage after accepting four free tickets to her sellout Eras tour in August, it …

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5 months, 2 weeks ago

QUENTIN LETTS: We had disbelief! Infamy! Jowls wobbled, eyeballs bulged as if it were the constipation Olympics

Daily Mail

Moments after touching tributes to Alex Salmond the Commons heard an urgent question about sleaze in Downing Street. Free tickets to concerts by the same artiste were palmed to various ministers, including our leading moraliser Sir Keir Starmer. Free tickets to concerts by the same artiste were palmed to various ministers, including our leading moraliser Sir Keir Starmer Government backbenchers, …

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9 months, 3 weeks ago

QUENTIN LETTS: It was another moribund election day, then - wham! - Nigel gave our boring, patronising politicos a big boot up the bahookie

Daily Mail

Another moribund day was drifting by, our political class talking to itself. Nigel Farage announces that he is the new leader of Reform - and the party's candidate for Clacton - in Glaziers Hall in London A nation yawned. At 4pm Nigel Farage's froggy smile bounced into the ballroom of the Glaziers Hall in London and the election caught light. …

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10 months, 1 week ago

QUENTIN LETTS: Not even Noah sailing past waving from the deck of his ark would have put the PM off his stride!

Daily Mail

As Soho strip-joint gents used to say, ‘and they’re off!’ Amid a teatime downpour Rishi Sunak came splashing out of No 10 to announce he was going to the country on July 4. Rishi Sunak got a drenching as he delivered a seven-minute outdoor speech Weren’t Rishi’s trousers tight enough already without being shrunk further? Mr Sunak said the inflation …

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10 months, 4 weeks ago

QUENTIN LETTS: The General was actually squeaking with indignation... but Dave returned fire

Daily Mail

Lord Cameron, international schmoozer, intimate of executive jet lounges, looked in on Parliament for an hour or so. His lordship was enjoying a grand tour through Outer Mongolia and 'the Stans' in a £42million Embraer Lineage when his young honey of an aide rose from her white-leather seat and said 'don't forget the Lords International Relations and Defence committee next …

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1 year, 2 months ago

QUENTIN LETTS: Beaming Rishi Sunak's teeth shone like LED car headlights as he held 'town hall' style event in Accrington

Daily Mail

Accrington Stanley FC, tenth in League Two, were at home. He bounced in wearing a blazingly white shirt and the tightest trousers seen since Aled Jones sang treble. He bounced in wearing a blazingly white shirt and the tightest trousers seen since Aled Jones sang treble,' writed Quentin Letts 'Hands free, his gesticulations went turbo. His voice crinkled at the …

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2 years, 9 months ago

What ever happened to the notorious ‘Ed Stone’?

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5 years, 3 months ago

Ed Miliband has transformed since 2015 – he should lead Labour again

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6 years, 3 months ago

QUENTIN LETTS: He yelled with such force I had to hold on to my spectacles

Daily Mail

Geoffrey Cox, Attorney General, was making a rare appearance to defend Theresa May's Brexit proposal, WRITES QUENTIN LETTS William Shakespeare's little-known King Geoffrey IV, Part I was given its world premiere in the Commons yesterday. He may not have succeeded but he delivered his lines with a fortissimo basso theatricality ultra Wolfit, supra Sinden, and in decibel levels beyond even …

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6 years, 4 months ago

QUENTIN LETTS watches the PM swipe off claims her Brexit deal is in trouble

Daily Mail

Theresa May’s aeroplane was at the airport, waiting to whisk her weary bones to Argentina for the G20 summit, but first the Prime Minister had the Westminster equivalent of a trip to the fang bandit: 90 minutes at the liaison committee to discuss her imperilled Brexit deal. When anyone suggested she had no hope of pushing the deal through the …

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6 years, 6 months ago

QUENTIN LETTS on the Labour leader's response to May's Russia statement

Daily Mail

Aghast silence fell on the Commons as the Prime Minister detailed the movements of two suspected Russian military assassins who loped down to Salisbury in March. The House stilled as Theresa May made a Statement laying bare the itinerary of ‘Alexander Petrov’ and ‘Ruslan Boshirov’, names our police believe to be aliases. Jeremy Corbyn, pictured, was a classless piece of …

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6 years, 8 months ago

QUENTIN LETTS watches on as May's increasingly powerful fixer gives evidence alongside Dominic Raab

Daily Mail

Coups d’etat used to be conducted by Latin-American generalissimos with dark glasses and scrambled egg – huevos revueltos – on their army tunics. Mr Robbins runs Theresa May’s Europe unit at 10 Downing Street. Mr Robbins, meekly: ‘I don’t think so.’ He claimed Mrs May’s ‘engagement with colleagues was constant’. He has been given powers that arguably usurp those of …

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7 years, 9 months ago

Quentin Letts on the start of the Brexit negotiations

Daily Mail

Another inexorable step to freedom, mes braves: the Brexit talks with Brussels started properly yesterday and at the end of a day which began with presents and included a slap-up lunch, the two chief negotiators held a reasonably civilised press conference. David Davis is welcomed by Michel Barnier as Brexit negotiations got underway in earnest yesterday At the end of …

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9 years, 3 months ago

David Cameron, Ed Miliband or Natalie Bennett: Who made the worst political gaffe in 2015?

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10 years ago

TV debates: Ed Miliband takes most plaudits after David Cameron fails to find answers on food banks and zero-hours contracts

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10 years ago

Ed Miliband's Jeremy Paxman interview saw him come over all Mr Muscle

Daily Mail

Blimey, he gave David Cameron and Ed Miliband a hard time last night. Jeremy Paxman is interviewing Mr Cameron and Mr Miliband as part of the first TV event of the election campaign Ah yes, food banks. Mr Cameron was give a hard time by Jeremy Paxman but emerged relatively unscathed from his questions with the audience Both Cameron and, …

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10 years ago

Nervous of interviews, Miliband has staked everything on the television debates

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10 years ago

Ed Miliband asked if he regrets stabbing brother David in the back?

Daily Mail

Revealed he would not call the police if he caught his sons with cannabis He was also questioned about rent prices, trust and being seen as weird Ed Miliband has been challenged on live TV over whether he regrets 'stabbing his brother in the back' to win the Labour leadership. Taking part in BBC Three's Free Speech programme, audience member …

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10 years, 1 month ago

Looking for trouble? Ed Miliband's love of a good scrap

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10 years, 1 month ago

'Take that, Fink!': Why Ed Miliband's first political victory in ages makes me feel uncharacteristically hopeful and aggressive

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10 years, 1 month ago

QUENTIN LETTS: This sketch was written under the restrictions of the Mugabe - sorry, the Miliband regime

Daily Mail

This sketch is compiled under the reporting restrictions of the Mugabe regime – sorry, the Miliband regime. Well, folks, here we aren’t in Newham, east London, where Labour’s education spokesman Tristram Hunt visited a primary school to plug his announcement about compulsory sex education for tiddlers. Scroll down for video Tristram Hunt, during a visit to Little Ilford School in …

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10 years, 4 months ago

Labour supporters do not believe Ed Miliband is fit to be PM, poll shows

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10 years, 8 months ago

Miliband's drawing attention to his own flaws is madness, says LORD BELL, former PR guru to Lady Thatcher

Daily Mail

Ronald Reagan, the US President known as the ‘Great Communicator’ because of his instinctive ability to connect with the American public, once wrote that ‘if you’re explaining, you’re losing’. Laughing off his public image: Labour leader Ed Miliband has tried to play down the importance of image, but was handed cartoons mocking his image by the BBC's Andrew Marr Instead, …

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10 years, 10 months ago

Is this the moment Ed realised that the man who sold him this bacon sandwich is voting Tory? Labour leader's nationwide tour gets off to a difficult start

Daily Mail

Ed Miliband might have hoped for a better day of PR after two disastrous interviews yesterday left him looking clueless. Labour leader Ed Miliband tucks into a bacon sandwich, but he doesn't appear to be enjoying it Mr Miliband hopes to use a series visits across the country to connect with voters ahead of local and European elections tomorrow Being …

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10 years, 10 months ago

Ed Miliband forgets who he is campaigning for in Swindon

Daily Mail

Ed Miliband was accused of being out of touch yesterday after he was stumped by basic questions about his household budget. Ed Miliband suffered a disastrous interview on 'Good Morning Britain' this morning, which he followed up with a car crash performance on local radio The Labour leader appeared tired during his 7.24am appearance as the grueling campaign for this …

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11 years, 6 months ago

Ed Miliband: Union slashes Labour's funding, barons deliver their withering verdict on the leader

Daily Mail

'Miliband's a schoolboy living in cloud cuckoo land': As another union slashes Labour's funding, barons deliver their withering verdict on the leader Unison leader criticises Ed Miliband's 'opt in' reform for party support Dave Prentis said his union would cut its annual party funding by £210,000 Unison members 'opting in' for fee support to Labour plummet Britain's union leaders branded …

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11 years, 6 months ago

The humiliation of Ed Miliband: Labour leader's new crisis as he makes U-turn on union vote-rigging row after Unite 'threatens to bankrupt the party'

Daily Mail

The humiliation of Ed Miliband: Labour leader's new crisis as he makes U-turn on union vote-rigging row after Unite 'threatens to bankrupt the party' 'Very existence' of party at risk after Miliband was forced to declare that Unite union was innocent of rigging selection vote David Blunkett says Labour must change if it is to win the next election Ed …

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11 years, 7 months ago

Government sources say Ed Miliband is a ‘copper-bottomed s***’ who ‘changed his mind’ on Syria

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12 years, 9 months ago

The Sketch: Ed Miliband looks like a leader, then the face gives him away

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13 years, 2 months ago

Matthew Norman: Ed Miliband's big problem

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13 years, 2 months ago

Matthew Norman: If politics is like sex, Ed will never find the national G-spot

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14 years, 2 months ago

Miliband aims to distance himself from unions

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14 years, 5 months ago

David Miliband camp blames Mandelson for defeat

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QUENTIN LETTS from Westminster: Ed Miliband sprayed his opponents with slobbery derision. He was gonna win - hell yeah!

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