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Sir Keir Starmer made a jab at Nigel Farage during Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday (21 May), stating that the Reform UK leader, who is currently holidaying in France, was “first through the e-gates”.Mr Farage missed a parliamentary debate on a Brexit reset yesterday, where the prime minister presented his new UK-EU deal, with access to e-gates being a crucial part of the agreement.Speaking to Reform UK MP Lee Anderson in the House of Commons, Sir Keir said it was “very good” to see him standing in for the Clacton MP.Sir Keir’s joke on e-gates was met with cheers from the Commons, and he followed the jab with the pun: “Nice work if you can get it.” More

Sir Lindsey Hoyle lashed out at unruly MPs during Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday (21 May), asking them to behave or leave the Commons.During a heated debate on Labour’s winter fuel payment cuts, where Sir Keir Starmer announced a U-turn on the controversial policy, the Speaker stood up to tell a group of disruptive whips he “expects better from them”.“The boys at the back, I’ve got my eye on you”, he said, which prompted further jeers.Calling for “order” in the House of Commons, Sir Lindsay addressed the rowdy MPs and asked “which one wants to leave first?” before pointing to one particularly loud offender as the “first volunteer”. More

Sir Keir Starmer has described the “level of suffering” in Gaza as “utterly intolerable”.The prime minister told the House of Commons on Tuesday (20 May): “We’re horrified by the escalation from Israel. We repeat our demand for a ceasefire as the only way to free the hostages.“We repeat our opposition to settlements in the West Bank, and we repeat our demand to massively scale-up humanitarian assistance into Gaza.”Sir Keir united with his French and Canadian counterparts to issue a stark warning to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to halt his “egregious” actions in Gaza. More

Dame Esther Rantzen’s daughter became emotional as said her mother has “no idea what’s coming” regarding her terminal cancer as the debate on legalising assisted dying continues.The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill was back before the House of Commons on Friday, 16 May, for the first time since a historic yes vote in November saw a majority of MPs support the principle of assisted dying.Rebecca Wilcox said: “We should be able to have a pain-free, caring, compassionate death.“I only wish I could get that for my mother… she has no idea what’s coming around the corner.” More

Keir Starmer has broken his silence following arson attacks on properties linked to him, calling it “an attack on democracy”.The prime minister said the attacks are “an attack on all of us, on democracy and the values that we stand for” as he addressed the House of Commons during Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday (14 May).Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch condemned the attacks as “completely unacceptable”.“I think I speak for the whole house when I say that this wasn’t just an attack on him, but on all of us and on our democracy,” the Tory leader said.Police are continuing their investigation into the attacks on properties and a car linked to Sir Keir. More

A Cambridge University professor whom JD Vance described as his “British Sherpa” has claimed that “more people have got into trouble in the UK for free speech offences” than in Vladimir Putin’s Russia.Dr James Orr, an associate professor of philosophy of religion, is a close friend of the US vice president.His remarks came after Mr Vance said during a speech at the Munich Security Conference that European governments, including the UK’s, had retreated from their values and ignored voter concerns on migration and free speech.Russia ranks 171/180 in the 2025 World Press Freedom Index. Anti-war activists have been jailed and detained. More

A former Conservative club in Blackpool has been rebranded as a Reform UK pub.Footage posted by Mark Butcher, who stood for the party in the Blackpool South by-election in 2024, shows The Talbot on Milbourne Street in the city centre after it was painted bright blue, displaying the political party’s logo outside.Co-owner Pete Flynn told GB News that he and his business partner are both party members.”We wanted to be the first Reform club… We love Nigel Farage – so it’s fantastic,” he said.The rebrand comes after Reform UK made huge gains in this year’s local elections across England. More