Streeting isn’t keen to make a visual show of support for Starmer. He hasn’t appeared on the frontbench at PMQs since Wednesday 19 November 2025…
The Health Secretary has not been seen on the frontbench for three successive PMQs now. He’s usually on the side looking unimpressed and uninterested or has a convenient diary clash…
After the foot-shooting Downing Street briefing meltdown on 11 November it now looks like Streeting has given up on putting on a brave face in the Commons on Wednesdays. He has kept up his new TikTok account in the meantime, last posting six days ago…
There was some attempt over the weekend to dress up an anti-Streeting briefing from Team Rayner as a potential for a Wes-Ange double bill for the leadership. At least team Streeting is aware he has a Labour Party membership-shaped problem – maybe he should fire Andy Burnham a text…
Badenoch challenged Starmer at PMQs on the resignation of OBR chairman Richard Hughes:
“We know that there were endless Treasury briefings to justify raising taxes on hardworking people to pay for benefits and those briefings had real world consequences. Hundreds of thousands of people drew down their pension, an irreversible act… If the head of the OBR had to resign over market sensitive leaks, why is the Chancellor still in her job?”
Starmer hit back by repeating the false claim that there was a black hole and added:
“The OBR said yesterday, Mr. Speaker, that the Chancellor’s speech was not misleading. So if the leader of the opposition had any decency, she’d get up now and apologise.”
The OBR also said Treasury briefings were wrong, that it had asked the Treasury to stop briefing, and that there was no black hole…
Former leader of the SNP in Westminster Ian Blackford told Times Radio why he believes Nicola Sturgeon’s claim that she spent no time in the kitchen and therefore didn’t see any of her husband’s purchases:
“She doesn’t have a passion for cooking.”