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Sir Lindsay Hoyle snapped at a Tory MP in what appeared to be a case of mistaken identity during Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday, 20 November.The House of Commons speaker paused proceedings to scold Danny Kruger, telling the opposition MP: “We’ll have less as well unless you want to go and have a cup of tea.”Mr Kruger insisted he had not opened his mouth, to which Sir Lindsay joked: “You must be able to do it like a ventriloquist dummy.”Sir Lindsay later apologised for the mixup, saying it was James Wild — who sat next to Mr Kruger — that he should have addressed. More

Angela Rayner faced boos in the House of Commons as she defended Labour’s proposed changes to agricultural inheritance tax during Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday, 20 November.It came after hordes of farmers descended upon London to protest against the tax plans.From April 2026, landowners who inherit agricultural assets worth more than £1m will have to pay 20 per cent inheritance tax on them.The prime minister has insisted he is “absolutely confident the vast majority of farms and farmers will not be affected by this” but farmers insist that a much larger number will be impacted. More

David Lammy berated Russia’s first deputy permanent representative to the UN for fiddling with his mobile phone during a UN Security Council session on a joint UK-Sierra Leone draft resolution calling for a national ceasefire on Monday, 18 November.The foreign secretary criticised Dmitry Polyanskiy for looking down at the device and condemned Russia for blocking a United Nations call for a ceasefire in Sudan.Mr Lammy, who chaired the Security Council session, said: “I ask the Russian representative, in all conscience sitting there on his phone — how many more Sudanese have to be killed… before Russia will act?The war in Sudan began in April 2023 when simmering tensions between its military and paramilitary leaders broke out in the capital Khartoum and spread to other regions including Darfur. More

Boris Johnson struggled to explain Brexit during an interview with a French radio station on Monday, 18 November.The former British prime minister, who campaigned to leave the European Union, told France Inter: “There’s an idea of constitutional freedom for the United Kingdom. And, I recount the struggle for Brexit [in Unleashed].”The freedom to do things differently. In particular, you see – We forget all this now because it was two or three years ago but when we had the pandemic, thanks to Brexit we had the chance to do the vaccinations in England much earlier.” More

A farmer predicted “big problems with food shortages” following Labour’s changes to inheritance tax announced in the Budget.Critics have warned that the change, which means farmers will have to pay 20 per cent of tax on inherited agricultural assets worth more than £1m from April 2026, will destroy family farms that make up around two-thirds of Britain’s agricultural base.”The biggest worry for us… is to be able to feed the poorer people in society,” Gareth Wyn Jones told GB News on Monday, 18 November.”I won’t be selling any lamb or any beef this week… This is not to make people hungry, this is to show what’s to come in the future.” More

Boris Johnson has said that he believes Donald Trump will not embarrass himself by allowing Vladimir Putin to win the war in Ukraine.Speaking on France Inter on Monday, 18 November, the former British prime minister declared that he could not imagine someone like the president-elect “inaugurating his mandate by humiliating the United States and NATO by letting Putin defeat Ukraine.”Mr Johnson’s comments came amid fury in Moscow as the US gave the green light for Ukraine to use US-made long-range missiles to target Russian territory, according to reports. More

Louise Haigh has defended Labour’s budget measures after Keir Starmer shunned farmers at a tax protest.The transport secretary said budget measures that affect farmers are “fair and proportionate”.She sidestepped questions about why the prime minister did not speak to farmers who gathered to protest outside the Welsh Labour conference on Saturday (16 November) and whether it was wise for a farming minister to say farmers should calm down over plans to raise inheritance tax plans.“We do recognise the difficult situation that many are in, but we think the choices that we set out in the budget are fair and proportionate,” she told Sunday Morning With Trevor Phillips. More

In an exclusive interview with The Independent, Lord Hague discusses with Geordie Greig his campaign to win election as Chancellor to the University of Oxford. The former foreign secretary explains his opinions on what the statue of Cecil Rhodes, his love of history and how his experience as a student shapes his view on opening Oxford to more state-educated students.In the wide-ranging interview, Hague maintains his stance on Donald Trump being a threat to democracy as US President and the Right have strayed from the ideals of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan.Read the story here. More