HENRY DEEDES on Penny Mordaunt’s perfectly crafted rebuke to Commons sleaze claims by Angela Rayner

Penny Mordaunt gave Angela Rayner a frightful biffing in the Commons yesterday. Surprising, I know!  If these two were to ever square up to each other, most money would be on bovver- booted Rayner. Back in her youth, I doubt many dared pick a fight with our Ange in the playground. Yet when the pair … Read more

Did Allegra Stratton mislead the Press pack over refurb? Labour demand inquiry

Did Allegra Stratton mislead the Press pack over refurb? Labour demand inquiry into whether PM’s press secretary ‘knowingly misled’ journalists Former journalist was Mr Johnson’s press secretary from October until last week  Labour’s demand came after No 10 spokesman declined to deny PM’s loan  That claim appears to run contrary to what Miss Stratton said … Read more

Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner charged taxpayer £249 for pair of PERSONALISED AirPods

Labour’s deputy leader Angela Rayner charged the taxpayer £249 for pair of PERSONALISED AirPods among £2,100 Apple gadgets she claimed on expenses to help her WFH in pandemic Angela Rayner claimed a pair of £249 personalised Apple AirPods on expenses  Also claimed £1,619 iPad, £99 case, £199 keyboard, £131 pencil, £70 office chair MPs claimed … Read more

Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner charged taxpayer £249 for pair of PERSONALISED AirPods

Labour’s deputy leader Angela Rayner charged the taxpayer £249 for pair of PERSONALISED AirPods among £2,100 Apple gadgets she claimed on expenses to help her WFH in pandemic Angela Rayner claimed a pair of £249 personalised Apple AirPods on expenses  Also claimed £1,619 iPad, £99 case, £199 keyboard, £131 pencil, £70 office chair MPs claimed … Read more

Labour claims expenses on first class travel, TV licences and HAND GEL, figures reveal

Labour’s Shadow Cabinet charged thousands in expenses during lockdown, billing taxpayers for first-class travel, rent, TV licences – and even hand gel.  Deputy leader Angela Rayner, who boasts of ‘standing up for working people’, claimed £30,952.98 including £1,600 on 23 first-class rail tickets between London and her Manchester constituency since March. Shadow Foreign Secretary Lisa Nandy … Read more

Keir Starmer brands Jeremy Corbyn’s response to anti-Semitism report ‘as bad as it gets’

Sir Keir Starmer has said Jeremy Corbyn’s response to a damning report on anti-Semitism in Labour was ‘just about as bad as you can get’. The Opposition leader said he was ‘disappointed’ when his predecessor claimed the issue had been ‘dramatically overstated for political reasons’. It comes as the party’s deputy leader Angela Rayner has … Read more

HENRY DEEDES sees Boris Johnson on top form batting off the Opposition 

The Prime Minister was surprisingly jaunty… Keir Starmer’s brow crinkled with perplexity: HENRY DEEDES sees Boris Johnson on top form batting off the Opposition By Henry Deedes for the Daily Mail Published: 23:02 GMT, 11 November 2020 | Updated: 23:04 GMT, 11 November 2020 Armistice Day in the Commons, where at PMQs Labour’s guns fell … Read more

Angela Rayner ‘shouts “Scum!” at Tory MP’ during coronavirus clash

Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner ‘shouts “Scum!” at Tory MP Chris Clarkson’ in heated House of Commons clash over Covid – before she is slapped down by furious Deputy Speaker Tory MP Chris Clarkson said Labour frontbench view coronavirus as ‘good crisis’ Mr Clarkson appeared to be heckled by Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner He … Read more

Boris Johnson is to blame for 15,000 care home deaths, says Labour’s deputy leader

Angela Rayner last night accused Boris Johnson of ‘abandoning’ care homes to their fate as she blamed his ‘failure and incompetence’ for the thousands who had died.  In a stinging attack on the PM, Labour’s deputy leader – who was a care worker herself before she entered politics – lambasted him for reneging on his … Read more

Labour wants evidence Dominic Cummings obeyed lockdown

Dominic Cummings faced the media on May 25 to give a day-by-day account of his battle against coronavirus and his controversial journey to his parents’ farm in Durham. The Prime Minister’s top aide faced an hour-long television grilling at Downing Street after it emerged on Saturday he had travelled 260 miles north from London with … Read more