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Labour's internal battle for its new top target--the redrawn seat of West Bromwich East--is one of the selection season's tastiest, pitting West Midlands allies Tom Watson and John Spellar against [...]

The cost-of-living crisis isn't starting at home for Boris Johnson, new owner of a 3.8m [pounds sterling] moated mansion with guest cottage and tennis court. The arrival of the deposed [...]

Suspended by the Conservative Party since a Carlton Club drunken rampage triggered Boris Johnson's toppling, former deputy chief whip Chris Pincher is off the booze. This month, instead of writing [...]

Plaid Cymru is in turmoil after 'son of destiny' Adam Price turned into the father of failure. The Welsh nat leader's enforced resignation--following a report exposing a culture of bullying [...]

Jeremy Hunt is increasingly worried he'll be a Blue Wall brick that gets dislodged by Ed Davey's Lib Dems, whispered an ex-cabinet colleague who described the nation's credit-card holder as [...]

Trade unionists are hatching a plot to replace Jeremy Corbyn in Islington North with one of their own (and Angela Rayner's 'soulmate'): Sam Tarry. One of the conspirators murmured the [...]

Lobby hacks grumble that some Labour press officers are insisting on being quoted as 'Labour sources' or a 'Labour insider' rather than 'spokesperson'. Denial deniability, apparently. * Kevin Maguire is [...]

Bully-boy Dominic Raab has gone and Steve Barclay is protesting his innocence after his own brusque management techniques triggered cries of pain in the health department. A Tory former cabinet [...]

Unable, in a formal suit, to weave his way through the crowds into the Abbey, Michael Gove was seen grinning grimly as he bobbed backwards and forwards in search of [...]

In Labour-land the gossip is that Keir Starmer's praetorian guard is freezing Wes Streeting out of the inner circle. Rave reviews for the shadow health secretary, and his growing confidence, [...]

MPs would forgive Iain Duncan Smith should the former Tory leader and work and pensions secretary be heard warbling 'Could Have Been Me' in the bath. It wasn't missed on [...]

Unlucky in the coronation cheap-seats ballot, one Truss minister looking on the bright side whispered that at least it wasn't Jacob Rees-Mogg tasked with wielding the implement not to mention [...]

Labour apparatchiks have observed the influence of Tony Blair's former speechwriter Peter Hyman expanding over Keir Starmer. Charged with re-educating Labour, Hyman--also the co-founder of a successful east London academy [...]

Declared 'displaced' by the planned abolition of his Red Wall North West Durham seat, and so free to apply for other Tory constituencies, transport minister Richard Holden has wasted no [...]

Opponents who seek to rile Keir Starmer should call him boring--the 'tedious' barb finds a chink in the Labour leader's armour. Close aides refer to it as his Achilles heel. [...]

MPs uninvited to Westminster Abbey will be allowed to stand in a pavement enclosure in front of parliament to blow kisses, wave, cheer, bow and curtsy when Charles the Unwanted [...]

Rishi 'I am unashamedly pro-business' Sunak is noticeably shy when it comes to his own record in exploitative finance. The PM taking part in a live event on the networking [...]

Bully-finder Adam Tolley KC has triggered fear and paranoia among cabinet ministers since the recent public execution of the deputy prime minister and justice secretary. Following an investigation into his [...]

Vein-bulging bully boy Dominic Raab's petulant resignation was swiftly overshadowed by Diane Abbott dissociating herself from the anti-Semitic views she expressed in a letter to the Observer. MPs are taking [...]

The former school dinner lady Carolyn Harris is credited with playing an unsung part in the Tory rocker Rod Stewart championing striking nurses and calling for Keir Starmer and Labour [...]

Few tears are shed by Tories over the fall of the corporatist Confederation of British Industry (CBI)--rather it is Labour that's weeping. From Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves to Jonathan [...]

Reform UK is still nibbling at Rishi Sunak's right. The party, which stood aside to give Boris Johnson a clear run against Corbyn's Labour in 2019, isn't looking so clever [...]

It wouldn't be parliament without a conspiracy theory. The latest rumour is the calorie counts of House of Commons meals healthier denizens of Westminster judge them suspiciously low. Weightier issues [...]

Divine intervention may yet save Giles Watling in Clacton. The man who played vicar Oswald in the TV series Bread became the latest Tory forced to plead with the party [...]

The peer Sayeeda Warsi is happy to call out Tory cruelty, recently branding Suella Braverman unfit to be Home Secretary because she keeps 'dragging [Rishi Sunak] to the gutter'. But [...]

Desperately seeking reassurance and finding none is Steve Reed, Labour's shadow (in)justice secretary fighting a lone battle to legitimise controversial posters that portray Rishi Sunak as being soft on prison [...]

Desperate for a British platform to promote her political and economic failures, rumour is that No 10 reject Liz Truss is the latest MP fancying a presenting gig on GB [...]

Donald Trump's mounting legal woes and White House rerun are manna from heaven for James Cleverly. The Foreign Secretary's nightmare was the former president hopping on Trump Force One and [...]

The Tory scramble for safer seats is rapidly resembling Wacky Races. One MP with a 12,000 majority is rumoured to have bought a house in a constituency with a fatter [...]

Labour's smear machine branding Rishi Sunak a paedophile's friend unintentionally illuminated worsening tensions between Yvette Cooper and Steve Reed, who wants her job. No squeamish softy on crime herself, the [...]

Time hasn't changed Gordon Brown. On a red-flag-waving visit to Labour's new Blackfriars HQ, the former prime minister greeted individual staff with a cheery 'Thank you for all you do' [...]

What is it about freewheelin' Tories? In 2008, David Cameron was caught cycling through red lights and the wrong way up no-entry streets. Harum-scarum Boris Johnson's multiple misdemeanours have included [...]

The dark cloud of wrongly jailed sub-postmasters threatens to rain on Ed Davey's parade. A letter by the Liberal leader is circulating in Westminster dating from his stint as postal [...]

Hoity-toity Jacob Rees-Mogg has been accused by a peer of treating the police guarding parliament as servants. Mere mortals enter at carriage gates via turnstiles with a pass and Pin [...]

Smelling a rat, Sajid Javid was one of the relieved MPs who didn't buy the Led by Donkeys fake offer of South Korean riches. The word is Gavin Williamson was [...]

Brexit-backing venture capitalist Jon Moynihan, whom Liz Truss nominated for a peerage, donated 53,265.48 [pounds sterling] to her party leadership campaign. Sadly, there were no refunds when her disastrous 50-day [...]

Reprising the 2017 hung parliament is already a lost cause for Sunak. Tory MPs fear 1bn [pounds sterling] for Northern Ireland wouldn't buy DUP votes this time, after its opposition [...]

Scottish Labour's leader, Anas Sarwar, is frustrated the UK party isn't getting down and dirty with Sunak more often, targeting his extreme wealth. During a trip to London he was [...]

Wearing glasses gives Keir Starmer a studious look, emphasising the former director of public prosecutions' technocratic appeal. Boring is in vogue, and with the Tories pitching Rishi Sunak in the [...]

Discipline is breaking down in a fracturing SNP battalion that once marched in lockstep around Westminster, with new colonel Stephen Flynn struggling to impose unity in London when back home [...]

The increasingly erratic behaviour of singleton Michael Gove is raising eyebrows. At a Tory away day in a swanky hotel, the Levelling Down Secretary led the warbling. The talk is [...]

Globetrotting Rishi Sunak prefers rubbing shoulders with the likes of Joe Biden and Emmanuel Macron to listening to Tory titans such as Scott Benton, Tom Hunt and others in the [...]

Her inbox invaded by fat-fingered racists inflamed by Hampshire neighbour Suella Braverman's loudhailer, Tory MP and former immigration minister Caroline Nokes was overheard noting that the hate emails had some [...]

The penny's dropping inside the leader of the opposition's office that Sue Gray could make life difficult for slackers. One survivor from the Blair years blamed fears she'd crack the [...]

Resentment brews in the Commons tea room at the light scrutiny of peers. MPs must put a figure on their earnings from outside interests. Not so in 'the other place'. [...]

Matt Hancock's ministerial life becoming public with the WhatsApp leak led a source to wonder what had happened to a TV showreel the superhero was producing. Eyebrows were raised when [...]

With Keir Starmer's poaching of Whitehall gamekeeper Sue Gray ruffling feathers, one Labour MP grumbled that Tory tails are up for the first time in months. 'Voters hate them but [...]

Dorries, along with Nigel Adams, Alister Jack and Alok Sharma, has supposedly been nominated for a deferred peerage by Johnson --a constitutional invention which is another reason why the former [...]

Nadine Dorries, incandescent over Tory critics whispering darkly that she hadn't spoken in the Commons during the eight months since her hero Boris Johnson resigned, texted Rishi Sunak offering to [...]

MPs who have had the whip suspended by Labour are required, I'm told, to continue paying Parliamentary Labour Party fees and vote with Labour while their fate is decided. The [...]