Matt Withers
17 April 2024
PMQs Review: Dame Andrea serves up waffle
The Conservative MP posed a completely baffling question about Angela Rayner's tax woes
Read the full article20 March 2024
PMQs Review: The vanishing woman finally emerges
Penny Mordaunt was back on the Conservative front bench days after she was placed at the centre of a plot
Read the full article13 March 2024
Sunak could have shut down Hestergate at PMQs. Instead, he said he was pleased to have a racist’s support
Another outing of unforced errors and whataboutery shows the prime minister is politically inept
Read the full article28 February 2024
PMQs Review: The ghosts of Truss and Corbyn haunt Sunak and Starmer
Leaders clash over their predecessors as Hoyle teeters on the brink of losing control
Read the full article21 February 2024
PMQs Review: Sunak struggles in the shadow of Kemi
The PM is the only person in Britain who’s not noticed Badenoch wants his job
Read the full article07 February 2024
Sunak is incompetent. But what if he’s also inhuman?
The PM’s callous ‘joke’ in front of Brianna Ghey’s mother is a new low
Read the full article31 January 2024
PMQs Review: Phil in your own headline here
This week's Commons match-up was dominated by an Iceland worker from Warrington
Read the full article25 January 2024
Scotland and the EU: an interview with the SNP’s independence minister
A “yes” to independence would also mean “yes” to Brussels
Read the full article24 January 2024
PMQs Review: Things can only get worse
It might not looks like it, but everything is going great, Rishi Sunak reassured the Commons at today's prime minister's questions
Read the full article17 January 2024
PMQs Review: Did you know Keir Starmer was a lawyer?
The election campaign has begun in earnest and it is not going to be pretty
Read the full article10 January 2024
PMQs Review: Questions for Mr Nobody
A session overshadowed by the Horizon scandal was brightened by the "brilliant Brexit bonus" of the discovery of some new clams
Read the full article01 January 2024
The Brexit collapse
The majority of British voters now see the decision to leave the EU as a national disaster
Read the full article27 December 2023
Sunak axes plan to return to imperial measures
Rishi Sunak has dealt a blow to nostalgic Brexiteers by scrapping plans to reintroduce imperial measurements
Read the full article26 December 2023
Game of thrones: how toilet graffiti is ‘the original social media’
A new exhibition celebrates a long-running but uncelebrated movement
Read the full article20 December 2023
Liars of the year: Our rundown of the terrible pork pies that disgraced and degraded public life in 2023
After holding off some formidable competition, Michelle Mone has claimed the coveted title of The New European’s Liar of the Year for 2023
Read the full article13 December 2023
PMQs Review: Mr Sunak really is very bad at politics
As he spoke, his backbenches could barely bring themselves to cheer
Read the full article13 December 2023
Balls-up for a jungle snake: Nigel Farage’s Celebrity odyssey
On I’m a Celebrity, Farage failed to emulate the former shadow chancellor Ed Balls by reinventing himself as a cuddly media personality
Read the full article11 December 2023
All hail Nigel the Third, if we really must
The former Ukip leader made it to the I'm A Celebrity final but failed to wear the crown
Read the full article10 December 2023
Jungle viewers get full outline of Farage’s Windsor Framework
As I'm A Celebrity draws to a close the former Ukip leader donned his spandex shorts
Read the full article09 December 2023
Farage ‘biggest name the European Parliament’s ever had’, declares Farage
The former Ukip presenter ruminated on his place in history in the I'm A Celebrity jungle
Read the full article08 December 2023
Farage gets embroiled in burnt rice row
The former Ukip leader got into a argument over who was responsible for ruining some rice
Read the full article07 December 2023
Jungle Farage poleaxed by a pineapple
A day after his karaoke antics the former Ukip leader was quizzed on Brexit by his campmates
Read the full article06 December 2023
Braverman’s lukewarm revenge
A resignation speech by a former home secretary who didn’t resign, and a Prime Minister’s Questions for a PM who is barely in charge – welcome to another day of government dysfunction in Westminster
Read the full article06 December 2023
Farage loses his shirt in the jungle
After three weeks of enforced abstinence, a half-pint of Flamin’ Gallah appeared to go straight to the former Ukip leader’s head as he took to the karaoke machine
Read the full article04 December 2023
Farage faces piercing questions in the jungle
It is with much regret that we must discuss the former Ukip leader's left nipple
Read the full article03 December 2023
Farage treats jungle to end of the peer show
Saturday night ITV viewers got an insight into the former Ukip leader's views on the House of Lords
Read the full article03 December 2023
The Square Mile and the EU
The man who speaks for the City knows the bankers can’t do without Europe
Read the full article02 December 2023
Campmate Farage takes the biscuit
The former Ukip leader was once again front and centre on I'm A Celebrity, failing another Bushtucker Trial
Read the full article30 November 2023
Farage finally utters those magic words (no, not ‘I’m sorry’)
The former Ukip leader failed in his latest Bushtucker Trial before having another argument about cultural appropriation
Read the full article29 November 2023
PMQs Review: Rishi Sunak lashes out on Brussels and Beethoven as Starmer’s blows land
The prime minister was stung by the Labour leader's description of a "man with the reverse Midas touch"
Read the full article29 November 2023
Farage: I’m not even allowed to dress up as a Mexican any more
The former Ukip leader wanted to speak to young people but when he finally did it didn't go well
Read the full article29 November 2023
Hairdryers, handcuffs and Dr Death: what we’ve learned from the Covid inquiry so far
With Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak set to face difficult questions in the coming days, here’s a recap of the inquiry’s findings up to now
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