Madeline Grant

Whenever someone points out a flaw in his plan, the PM reaches for the reset button

Clearly, the Education Secretary would rather combust than utter a word in praise of Katharine Birbalsingh’s high-performing state school

A few MPs have perfected the art of the well-timed parliamentary question. One is Reform's Rupert Lowe , whose canny inquiries about migration make him a constant irritant to the Home Office.

How many other heads of state can claim to be the subject of a personal scrapbook in the president-elect’s possession?

One of the joys of watching the House of Commons – even with its current woefully unimpressive membership – is that it can still turn its discussion on a sixpence.

At times it was like Matthew Pennycook was describing the operation of D-Day rather than planning reform

A rushed, unscrutinised Bill will have catastrophic consequences when its safeguards inevitably fail

Twas a week before Christmas and all through the House, not a brain cell was stirring, there was no show of nous.

Even the Prime Minister’s own MPs stuck the knife in as he faced one of his worst nightmares – being made to answer loads of questions

For a scenario so macabre, the assisted suicide debate prompted a surprising amount of back-slapping. Kim Leadbeater and Jess Phillips embraced each other while MPs fell over themselves to say how wonderful, how dignified their mix of emotional anecdote and outright deceit had been.