God give me strength, fella – Keir Starmer is a Line of Duty devotee! HENRY DEEDES on PMQs, Greensill and the Labour leader’s boy band haircut By Henry Deedes for the Daily Mail Published: 23:17 BST, 14 April 2021 | Updated: 09:57 BST, 15 April 2021 Mother of God! PMQs had gone all Line of … Read more
Boris Johnson spoke as though he’d lost a revered uncle: HENRY DEEDES watches the Prime Minister’s tribute to Prince Philip By Henry Deedes for the Daily Mail Published: 22:39 BST, 12 April 2021 | Updated: 01:35 BST, 13 April 2021 An unusual atmosphere befell the Commons yesterday. There were no heckles, no cheers, no boisterous … Read more
Boris Johnson spoke as though he’d lost a revered uncle: HENRY DEEDES watches the Prime Minister’s tribute to Prince Philip By Henry Deedes for the Daily Mail Published: 22:39 BST, 12 April 2021 | Updated: 22:41 BST, 12 April 2021 An unusual atmosphere befell the Commons yesterday. There were no heckles, no cheers, no boisterous … Read more
HENRY DEEDES: Beaming in from Liberace’s boudoir, came Boris Johnson’s dread word – ‘But…’ By Henry Deedes for the Daily Mail Published: 22:27 BST, 5 April 2021 | Updated: 07:51 BST, 6 April 2021 On skipped the Prime Minister, with that mild jauntiness of his that has happily returned in recent weeks, confirming our long … Read more
No one has ever doubted Boris Johnson’s ability to charm the nation by playing the fool. He’s a man who can win friends dangling on a zip wire above the Thames, a Union Jack on a stick in either hand. Heck, he can even attract a round of applause by driving a bulldozer through a … Read more
No one has ever doubted Boris Johnson’s ability to charm the nation by playing the fool. He’s a man who can win friends dangling on a zip wire above the Thames, a Union Jack on a stick in either hand. Heck, he can even attract a round of applause by driving a bulldozer through a … Read more
Fancy rockets, gleaming frigates, state-of-the-art new gear – usually when the Prime Minister discusses military matters, his speeches hum with the excitable rat-a-tat of gunfire and climax with a loud ‘kaboom’! Boris Johnson’s Integrated Review of defence and foreign policy yesterday, though, was a disappointingly soggy biscuit. Damper than an otter’s pocket. Plenty about increasing … Read more
Treble espressos all round, Giovanni! And while you’re at it, best poke a couple of matchsticks under our eyelids lest we find ourselves toppling into a deep and rigid coma. Sir Keir Starmer launched Labour’s local elections campaign yesterday morning and, ye gods, it was a force-five, chateau-bottled boreathon. To think I could been watching … Read more
Treble espressos all round, Giovanni! And while you’re at it, best poke a couple of matchsticks under our eyelids lest we find ourselves toppling into a deep and rigid coma. Sir Keir Starmer launched Labour’s local elections campaign yesterday morning and, ye gods, it was a force-five, chateau-bottled boreathon. To think I could been watching … Read more
Keir Starmer was no longer over a barrel: HENRY DEEDES watches the Labour leader in fight mode at PMQs By Henry Deedes for the Daily Mail Published: 22:00 GMT, 10 March 2021 | Updated: 00:58 GMT, 11 March 2021 Not often in the Commons do you get both Conservative and Labour benches hootin’ and a … Read more