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No-nonsense Betty Boothroyd could be as brusque with constituents as she was with MPs. Never owning a home in her West Bromwich constituency, Boothroyd, who, sadly, has died, stayed in [...]

Farmers laughing uproariously at a video message from Sunak were largely overlooked when rotten tomatoes were thrown at the Environment Secretary Therese Coffey, and her deputy, Mark Spencer, at the [...]

Gongs for dad Stanley and sister Rachel are whispered to be the latest twist in the saga of Boris Johnson's delayed gargantuan resignation honours list. As officials with red pens [...]

Most conversations with Tory MPs lead back to dire poll ratings and Johnson's intentions. One with a home counties seat argued that Blue Wall middle-class Conservatives despise the former PM, [...]

The Johnson logjam is holding up an appropriately briefer list from Liz Truss. Word is, the names are headed by a peerage for a crony tycoon who's selflessly ready to [...]

Starmer vowing to block Corbyn from standing again despite allowing him, for now, to remain a party member turns thoughts to who might fight Islington North for Labour. One veteran [...]

Z-list celeb Matt Hancock's squeeze, Gina Coladangelo, was paid 13,000 [pounds sterling] from public funds before CCTV of his fondling her derriere triggered the resignations of the health secretary and [...]

The swifter justice promised by former chief prosecutor Keir Starmer and shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper doesn't extend to Labour's sclerotic disciplinary system. Left hanging after whip suspensions are the [...]

Damian Green's defenestration by the Tory party's Borisite tendency is terrifying One Nationers ahead of the 23 July vesting day --the deadline for local associations to readopt or dump their [...]

George Osborne's accusation that Boris Johnson is plotting to supplant Rishi Sunak was, by remarkable coincidence, nearly word-for-word the private view of Downing Street. My snout in the know insisted [...]

Foot-in-mouth '30P Lee' Anderson is a deputy chair, not the deputy chair, of the Tory party. The other three--MPs Nickie Aiken, Luke Hall and Matt Vickers--aren't best pleased, I hear, [...]

A rumour refusing to die is the possibility of David Miliband flying back from New York to succeed retiring veteran MP Barry Sheerman in Huddersfield despite the party selecting Harpreet [...]

The tea-room Tory whisper is that Dominic Raab could be replaced as justice secretary by Victoria Atkins, should a bullying inquiry require his departure. The financial secretary to the Treasury [...]

Nor is Truss shy as she enjoys all the perks of being a former, albeit brief, PM. As the front-woman of a Tory punk band that trashed the economy, she [...]

Balloons inflating into a diplomatic crisis have coincided with the disclosure that Theresa May is a secret admirer of Chinese organisation. I was directed to the late Japanese prime minister [...]

Noisy Liz Truss is testing the patience of hitherto supportive MPs. Echoing Clement Attlee, who advised Labour left-winger Harold Laski that 'a period of silence on your part would be [...]

Gaelic-speaking hack Torcuil Crichton--selected by Labour to contest the Na h-Eileanan an Iar seat and oust the SNP's Angus MacNeil in the Western Isles--is a lobby legend. The Daily Record's [...]

Railroading striker-sacking legislation through the Commons in the guise of minimum service standards may well backfire on Sunak, mused a Tory comrade, by proving unworkable. One Conservative MP has called [...]

The severity of Conservative plans to sack strikers who refuse to cross picket lines can be judged by international reactions. British trade unions have supported brothers and sisters in Colombia [...]

In Labour-land, the mounting influence of Peter Mandelson, aka the Prince of Darkness, is causing concern. The Labour peer and first secretary of state under Gordon Brown emerged from the [...]

Three prime ministers go to war when vanquished Liz Truss returns from the wilderness to join Rishi Sunak and his stalker, Boris Johnson, in a scrap to shape Tory Britain. [...]

It's back to the old days for Andrew Murray, Unite's chief of staff and a former Jeremy Corbyn aide. He's returning to the Westminster lobby with the Morning Star, a [...]

Remember Jo Swinson? The briefest leader in Lib Dem history, losing the post (and her seat) after six months in 2019, has resurfaced as director of the philanthropic organisation Partners [...]

Labour must first win the election, which is expected in autumn next year. Many Conservative MPs fear their party has already lost. One disconsolate Tory, boycotting a Eyo-a-head glitzy centenary [...]

Publishing his annual tax returns if he became prime minister was a rare commitment by Nadhim Zahawi in his abortive Tory leadership bid last summer, recalled a snout. Protesting at [...]

Plagiarism is the sincerest form of flattery and Keir Starmer's copy of the Tony Blair playbook is so well-thumbed that it looks like he's building retro Labour. This time he [...]

Camel-penis eater Matt Hancock took his mother to the Good Morning Britain studio where he was grilled, flambeed, diced, boiled and mashed by Susanna Reid and pals over that 320,000 [...]

Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee is a discreet unit, but word emerges of a member infuriating the other MPs with his crude sexism during a briefing from a female senior [...]

Still no sign of Boris Johnson's resignation honours list, which may be a relief for the already gonged. My snout says the roster of names is so long that completing [...]

Nadhim Zahawi's business dealings, including banking at least 1.301 [pounds sterling] while an MP from an oil company with a Kurdistan field, have long triggered whispers. A YouGov poll of [...]

Excited Labour MPs giddy on the fumes of Tory sleaze are urged 'don't inhale' by Warley Warrior John Spellar. The veteran of 1992's disappointment--when Neil Kinnock believed he was poised [...]

The PLP chair, John Cryer, was overheard grumbling about some Labour comrades who moan that weekly meetings of the party in Westminster are boring. After the bloodletting of the Corbyn [...]

Voracious, insatiable egotist Boris Johnson's 1m [pounds sterling] donation from wealthy Christopher Harborne--a Thai-based, British Brexiteer who previously financed Nigel Farage's obsessions (see page 11)--is making Rishi Sunak envious. The [...]

Hardship and poverty are among the few growth areas under the Tories. Jeremy Hunt was reminded of this by constituents after visiting Waitrose in Farnham to champion a supermarket donating [...]

One MP battling a public spending squeeze watched openmouthed outside Westminster Hail as Liz Truss emerged from a blacked-out Range Rover with three close protection officers. With former PMs afforded [...]

Jeremy Corbyn isn't abandoning hope despite Keir Starmer insisting he won't let him stand again as an MP for the Labour Party. An Islington North resident was surprised to receive [...]

Former private school teacher Caroline Ansell is a mistress of understatement. In a mini mag distributed in hotels, the Tory MP for Eastbourne opined: 'I do not think anyone would [...]

Levelling-Down Secretary Michael Gove's ear is being chewed over a 'snobby snub' to the rugby league legend Kevin Sinfield in the New Year's honours. Tory and Labour Red Wall MPs [...]

Seven-time Westminster loser Nigel Farage won't risk an eighth run for parliament unless electoral reform is introduced. His fellow traveller Richard Tice, the property magnate and head of Reform UK [...]

Up to half the cabinet buying private healthcare is another reason why Rishi Sunak pompously dismisses questions about who provides his own medical consultations as 'not really relevant'. The Prime [...]

Captain Harry Wales's explosive admission that he removed 25 Taliban 'chess pieces' from the 'board' has Ben Wallace ducking behind sandbags. The Defence Secretary, a captain in the Scots Guards--who [...]

Wailing and a gnashing of Tory teeth is heard in Red Wall seats being sacrificed to save the Blue Wall. Tory MPs in England's north and Midlands whimper that they've [...]

Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle rigorously enforces a ban on MPs criticising Britain's troubled royal family in parliament. Outside the Palace of Westminster, Sadiq Khan is the politician who deals with [...]

Pollster and Tory peer Robert Hayward was overheard musing that Rishi Sunak won't suffer the same fate as Liz Truss and Boris Johnson--based on a sharp fall in Christmas cards [...]

Shadow climate change secretary 'Green Ed' Miliband should look away now. Rail strikes have resulted in Labour MPs being told to drive 'where possible' when visiting the constituency of West [...]

ConDem coalition posh boys David Cameron and Nick Clegg are due to reunite this month. Invitations have gone out for a cosy chat between 'Sir Nicholas' and his old boss [...]

A vertically challenged Sunak, standing knee-high to a Subbuteo player, is fond of informing football fans that his youthful ambition was to be a director of Southampton FC and not [...]