Madeline Grant

There was a veritable ‘last day of school' vibe in parliament as it was prorogued in anticipation of the King's Speech in May.

Oh dear, it's all looking a bit glum for Zack Polanski. A string of headlines about both him and his party has been less than flattering.

In fairness to Keir Starmer, it took some nerve to turn up and tell deflated Labour candidates what had gone wrong at the local elections when even David Lammy, not a man know for his awareness of his immediate surroundings, had admitted that one of the most regular problems on the doorstep was the Prime

I wish I’d invested in lecterns back in the day. They have become a fixture of British politics of late,…

One of the traditions of the state opening of Parliament is that the Yeomen of the Guard search the cellars of the Palace of Westminster for evidence of plots to blow up the government.

‘Grab that crab, Clarissa!/ Eat that meat, Jennifer!' It was with these words – the start of their self-sung theme tune – that Two Fat Ladies first burst on to our screens 30 years ago.

The Great North summit sounds like it should have been a peace conference attended by Peter the Great. Instead, it is actually a talking shop attended by Andy Burnham.

Has Sir Keir Starmer already checked out? There was a strange atmosphere in the House of Commons today. A sort of calm in the eye of the storm pervaded.

Burnham listed a lot of things that are wrong with the country – the care system, rail ticket prices, the housing ladder.

Peter Murrell is a strangely shiny man. He has the air of an undertaker who’s been siphoning off the corpse…