Chief Political Commentator, @theipaper. News, insight and analysis from the House of Commons. Presenter, BBC Radio 4's The Week In Westminster.
A-grade trolling of Zahawi by HMRC today. This appeared as a 'promoted' advert in my Twitter feed.
Nadhim Zahawi's tax affairs have set a stern leadership test for Rishi Sunak - and so far it's a test he's failing. Tonight's #WaughOnPolitics is online and in your inbox
Loving Grayson Perry's gutteral cackle on @BBCr4today after he delivers the lovely line that "England nowadays is culturally a series of cliches linked by motorways".
Brutal, two-footed tackle from @Keir_Starmer against @RishiSunak . Asks the PM "is this job too big for him?" #PMQs
Today confirmed that ridicule, laced with menace, is often the most potent weapon in #PMQs
Voters in their fifties are a ticking timebomb that could blow up Tory election hopes Tonight's #WaughOnPolitics is in your inbox.
The revenge of the Centrist Dads (and Mums). Why @RishiSunak should be worried the over-40s and over-50s are turning against the Tories.
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After reports that Liz Truss took a specially chartered flight to Australia, here's a quote from the 'Back to Black' cost-cutting document she co-authored in 2009:
@BorisJohnson just said the UK should be more like Germany, where workers don't have a "habit of going into work when not well" Key comparison: - Statutory sick pay in Germany 50% pay for 84 weeks. - Statutory sick pay in UK is £96.35 per week for 28 weeks.
Mark Carney tells @BBCr4today that Brexit is a key reason for interest rates having to go up. Says 2016 vote devalued sterling, hit growth and productivity + adds he was right in his warnings.
Scary stuff. Sir Charlie Bean, ex bank of England tells @BBCr4today : "It now costs the UK govt more to borrow than Italy or Greece, who we've traditionally thought of as not quite basket cases but certainly weaker performing sovereignentities."
A rare, total silence in Commons as @Keir_Starmer concludes his attack on @BorisJohnson over Partygate. "It's what he does, it's who he is". Ministers v uncomfortable as he cites a widower whose wife died in pandemic. Arguably, Starmer’s best Commons performance of his career.
Wow. @BorisJohnson finally confirmed something he has previously ducked repeatedly. Asked by @Meg_HillierMP whether he met ex-KGB spy Alexander Lebedev without officials when he was Foreign Secretary he replies: "I probably did."
This isn't a good look. Labour analysis suggests that of the 59 backbench MPs who have signed up to the motion scrapping the Standards Cttee, nearly a quarter (14) have been found to have breached parliamentary standards.
Oh my god, @KemiBadenoch wants to delay net zero. Some MPs really don't understand the scale of the climate emergency. How many more 40 degrees days do they need to finally get it?
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