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1Dec 24, '22Sunak asks a homeless man in a homeless shelter whether he "works in business", then proceeds to talk about the financial services industry. Utterly bizarre67.5×10.7M31k5.4k1.7k
2Jul 17, '23GB News presenter Dan Wootton used multiple fake identities to trick and bribe scores of men into revealing compromising sexual material. The victims included members of the public50.2×8M13k4.6k638
3Jul 12, '23As Sun columnist Rod Liddle is brought onto Newsnight to talk about Huw Edwards' alleged behaviour towards young people, here's a reminder of what he's written himself on the subje45.6×7.2M12k4.1k483
4Mar 1, '23Conservative Deputy Chairman Lee Anderson says one family in his local constituency who regularly uses his local food bank, he also sees in McDonalds "two or three times a week." H33.3×5.3M11k1.8k178
5Mar 11, '23BBC interviewer: "If Gary Lineker had said to Suella Braverman, 'I support your migrant policy. I back it. It is brilliant.' Would you have removed him from air for that?" BBC Dire26.2×4.2M31k4.3k341
6Mar 10, '23BBC Director General Tim Davie, who was previously a Conservative Party candidate and Deputy Chairman of the Hammersmith and Fulham Conservative party, says that forcing Gary Linek16.5×2.6M14k4.2k139
7Feb 10, '23Feels like there might be something missing from this "Conservative Woman" event.11.7×1.8M14k1.4k101
8Oct 2, '23So to summarise, the Government has just announced plans to scrap the biggest public transport infrastructure project planned for any Northern city, while taking part in its confer11.1×1.8M18k5.6k152
9Mar 9, '23Andrew Neil helped front the BBC's political coverage for many years while also regularly sharing his own (very right-wing) views on Twitter. It never once splashed newspaper front10.1×1.6M17k3.5k147
10Jan 29, '23Rishi Sunak needs to explain why, if breaking the ministerial code is now a sacking offence, that he chose to reinstate Suella Braverman just days after she was found to have broke9.6×1.5M27k6.2k62
11May 23, '24So Rishi Sunak just took a question from a hi-vis jacket-wearing man at a campaign event in a McVities warehouse. It turns out the man is actually local Conservative councillor Ros9.4×1.5M15k6.6k513
12Mar 22, '24Leave the colours of our national flag alone, says Nigel Farage8.3×1.3M27k2.4k263
13Jul 27, '23Nadine Dorries' local town council writes to her to raise their "concerns and frustration" at the "continuing lack of representation for the people of Mid-Bedfordshire at Westminst7.9×1.2M11k3.4k85
14Jan 9, '25Not a single Reform MP has bothered to turn up to today's House of Commons debate on tackling violence against women and girls7.3×1.2M22k3.9k376
15Jul 8, '24I see the Telegraph is still taking this exceedingly well6.2×987k16k1k397
16Mar 8, '23As the new asylum ban is condemned by international human rights groups, the Children's Commissioner, and the UN, the BBC leads its news bulletins on... Government criticism of Gar5.7×901k12k2k59
17May 3, '24The amount of coverage given to the Green Party, who have so far won 159 seats in these elections, compared to Reform UK, who have won two, has been quite something4.1×646k13k2.8k123
18Nov 25, '21Conservative MP Nick Fletcher says Doctor Who being played by a woman has pushed young men into crime.3.9×012k3.5k1.1k
19Jun 16, '19Donald Trump says Sadiq Khan is a "disaster" because of violent crime rates in London. Here's how London's homicide rate compares to US cities.3.9×030k14k228
20Oct 2, '22Incredible moment.3.6×038k6.6k1.7k
21Feb 3, '22Rishi Sunak tells MPs it is impossible to “artificially” hold down energy prices. In other news, Shell today announced their profits have increased by fourteen-fold and they plan t3.6×034k11k212
22Mar 23, '22Boris Johnson chuckles and pulls faces as Rishi Sunak talks about people huddling in basements in Ukraine. #springstatement3.5×025k8.7k565
23Oct 19, '22Grant Shapps, who used a fake name in order to pose as a "millionaire web marketer" running a get-rich-quick scheme, and then lied about it for three years, is now in charge of law3.4×031k10k280
24Feb 9, '24He's going to be absolutely furious when he finds out who's responsible for this3.3×527k16k1.5k63
25May 27, '20It says a lot about the political culture in the UK that the only person who has faced any consequences for Dominic Cummings' actions is a journalist who pointed them out.3.2×033k8.7k88
26Apr 19, '22Keir Starmer on Conservative ministers comparing Boris Johnson’s Partygate fine to a speeding ticket: "As it happens the last minister who got aspeeding ticket and then lied about 3.1×039k5.3k139
27May 26, '24Asked how they can pay for their National Service plan, James Cleverly says the Government can raise £6 billion by cracking down on tax avoidance. So what have they been waiting fo3.1×490k11k2.3k62
28Apr 6, '22Boris Johnson has today raised National Insurance by 1.25%. Here's what he promised in his last manifesto.3.0×027k8.9k162
29Jun 11, '24"If Labour win this time, they'll change the rules so they're in power for a very long time," says Rishi Sunak, whose government has - Rejigged electoral systems - Changed seat bou2.9×453k13k4.5k167
30Oct 15, '25No doubt this de-banking will also be splashed across the front pages of every single newspaper in the country and lead BBC bulletins for weeks on end too?2.8×450k13k4.4k800
31Jun 5, '22A reminder that if Paddington were a human being who had come to the UK by boat, rather than a fictional bear, the Mail would be demanding his immediate removal to Rwanda.2.8×032k5.1k108
32Jul 8, '22Rishi Sunak, who held a green card requiring him to declare himself a permanent US resident, and who also benefited from his wife's non-dom tax status, while being listed as a bene2.7×028k7.2k156
33Jul 19, '22Liz Truss has just become the bookies' favourite to become Britain's next Prime Minister. Here's a reminder of some of her finest moments.2.5×018k5.4k1.4k
34Jun 7, '22Boris Johnson's spokesman says the Prime Minister will transform the NHS into "a blockbuster health care system in the age of Netflix." Asked repeatedly to explain what this means,2.5×021k3.5k271
35Mar 24, '22Rishi Sunak said today that he has "absolutely no idea" about links between his wife's family company and Putin. He should ask his father-in-law.2.4×023k7k173
36Oct 6, '20"Some people used to sneer at wind power... and say it wouldn't pull the skin off a rice pudding," says Boris Johnson, who used to sneer at wind power, and say it wouldn't pull the2.4×023k6.8k257
37Mar 3, '22Gavin Williamson, who was sacked by Theresa May over allegations of leaking information from a National Security Council meeting and then sacked by Boris Johnson after presiding ov2.3×023k5.3k111
38May 27, '22Nothing says ‘I definitely followed the ministerial code’ like rewriting the entire code shortly before being investigated for breaking it.2.2×026k5.1k71
39Oct 5, '22Liz Truss says she is "the first prime minister of our country to have gone to a comprehensive school." Both Gordon Brown and Theresa May went to comprehensive schools.2.2×025k3.9k73
40Mar 1, '22Priti Patel says she would offer a security briefing to the opposition but she is "very sceptical of how they treat and respect security advice." A reminder that Patel was previous2.1×021k5.6k82
41Aug 11, '22"I'm a plain-talking Yorkshire woman," says Liz Truss, who was born in Oxford and lives in Norfolk.2.0×024k3.6k82
42Apr 30, '18Where are they taught this?2.0×018k5.4k35
43Feb 25, '22"The old concepts of fighting big tank battles on European land mass are over," said Boris Johnson last November, as he mocked the idea of armed conflict returning to Europe.2.0×014k4.9k461
44Oct 27, '21He just raised taxes by the highest amount of any chancellor in almost three decades.1.9×021k4.4k135
45Jul 19, '22A reminder that the prime minister skipped an emergency meeting to prepare for exactly this scenario, in order to take selfies in an RAF jet.1.9×021k4.6k77
46Dec 7, '21Amazing to think that Boris Johnson spent £2.6 million on this room for daily televised press briefings and the only clip we'll ever see from them is when his Press Secretary joked1.9×022k3.9k91
47Mar 31, '21Boris Johnson, who called black Africans “picanninies,” Muslim women “letterboxes” and said the problem with Africa is that "we are not in charge any more,” releases report saying 1.8×019k5k102
48Jul 12, '22Where are they taught this?1.8×022k1.8k255
49May 19, '22So the Metropolitan Police appears to have concluded that Boris Johnson somehow legally attended what they otherwise judged to be illegal gatherings, and that while he didn't break1.8×018k4.8k84
50Jun 29, '22Angela Rayner says it's ironic that the Speaker has to intervene to stop the "mob" of Conservative MPs shouting her down in the House of Commons, while the government brings in a l1.8×021k3.9k48
51Apr 12, '22A reminder of when Boris Johnson said he was "furious" to see footage of staff joking about holding illegal parties in Downing Street. All the while he knew he had attended them hi1.8×016k5.5k114
52Jun 15, '22"Under Labour, taxes go up," says Boris Johnson, who last year raised taxes by the highest amount of any Prime Minister in almost three decades. #pmqs1.8×020k3.9k53
53Oct 26, '21Amazing that Talk Radio: 1) Voluntarily chose to put this out. 2) Apparently believed this made the guest, rather than the host, look bad.1.8×019k2.9k465
54May 17, '22BREAKING: The House of Commons votes by 310 to 248 against Labour's motion to impose a windfall tax on oil and gas producers.1.6×012k4.7k125
55Jul 15, '22Rishi Sunak's closing statement boasting of his own "competence" and "seriousness" would have been more effective were he not sitting in front of a sign which misspells the word 'c1.6×017k3.1k92
56Jan 4, '22It's quite hard to think of a lower bar for a PM than getting dressed and brushing your hair.1.6×020k2.2k47
57Oct 29, '22This is absolutely shocking. Suella Braverman refused to let people in a dangerously overfilled migrant detention centre be moved elsewhere, leading "directly to overcrowding and o1.5×011k5.2k159
58Jun 12, '18These new Dad's Army stamps, following in the wake of the failed campaign for a Brexit stamp, feels like some top notch trolling by the Royal Mail.1.5×013k5.5k29
59Apr 29, '22The Mail says Keir Starmer "flouted lockdown guidance" at the start of September 2020, by being given a birthday cake. The UK wasn't in lockdown at the start of September 2020.1.5×016k3.1k111
60Jul 18, '22I'm not saying the Conservative leadership contest is going badly, but they just cancelled tonight's televised debate because they want to stop any more members of the public from 1.5×018k3k40
61Jul 20, '22Liz Truss has now deleted her tweet promising to "hit the ground from day one."1.5×016k2.8k162
62May 18, '22"Labour's plan is always to raise taxes," says Boris Johnson, whose government last year raised taxes by a higher amount than any other government in almost three decades. #PMQs1.5×016k3.5k40
63Aug 1, '22Nicola Sturgeon is “an attention-seeker” says the notoriously publicity-shy politician Liz Truss.1.4×016k3.2k64
64Jul 22, '22"This is so awkward... Where is Boris Johnson? We hate him."1.4×015k2.8k455
65Nov 3, '22Caller: "If we Brexit and go into recession, will you have the courage to go on TV and apologise". Boris Johnson: "Of course I will."1.4×012k4.1k270
66Mar 19, '22It's now been one month since Boris Johnson submitted his partygate questionnaire to the Metropolitan Police.1.4×014k3.3k19
67Aug 21, '22I'm not saying UK media and politics is too narrow and insular, but the Prime Minister's sister has her own national radio show, in which she interviews the Prime Minister's father1.4×014k3.2k169
68Jul 12, '22Jacob Rees-Mogg and Nadine Dorries tell the BBC that Liz Truss is "as strong a Brexiteer as both of us." Here she is in 2016, saying that Brexit would be a disaster.1.3×011k4.2k168
69Jun 27, '19"There will be drinking water, whatever happens on October 31st," says Boris Johnson. Such ambition.1.3×013k2.8k35
70Jul 6, '22"I abhor bullying," says Boris Johnson who point-blank refused to act when an official investigation found the Home Secretary Priti Patel was guilty of it #PMQs1.3×016k2.7k38
71Jan 12, '22So in summary Boris Johnson has gone from: 1) Denying there were parties 2) Saying that even if parties happened, no-one broke any rules 3) Saying he personally didn’t break rules 1.3×014k3.3k118
72Jul 2, '21Asked to sum up how she feels about Boris Johnson as a person, Angela Merkel replies: "We look at each other, we look at how different people can be and we make the best of it...."1.3×015k2k126
73Nov 30, '21Conservative MPs here still refusing to wear masks, during a debate on forcing the public to wear masks.1.3×012k3.4k51
74Jun 10, '20So it turns out it doesn't matter how they're taken down. They just want their statues of slave traders.1.3×014k3.3k106
75Jan 13, '21Gavin Williamson tells MPs he threatened to sue Greenwich Council for closing schools early because “at that stage none of us were aware of the new variant.” In fact the Health Sec1.3×013k3.1k55
76Aug 22, '22The man pictured on the right here with Boris Johnson, during his holiday in Greece, is Henry Newman. Boris Johnson claimed he was "interviewing" Newman during the infamous 'ABBA p1.2×011k3.7k112
77Jul 20, '21He wrote this six months after being admitted to intensive care with COVID and when nearly 60,000 people in the UK had already died.1.2×012k3.2k152
78Jun 29, '22Dominic Raab accuses Angela Rayner of being a "champagne socialist" for attending Glyndebourne. Heaven forbid a working class woman should enjoy watching opera. #pmqs1.2×015k1.6k25
79Nov 7, '22Suella Braverman fails to turn up to the House of Commons to answer the Urgent Question on the Government's treatment of refugee children and overcrowding at Manston.1.2×011k3.2k42
80Dec 14, '21Conservative MP Desmond Swayne says the “carnage” on UK roads is “certainly killing more people than Covid at the moment”. For context there were just 1,460 deaths on British roads1.2×011k2.6k67
81May 17, '22You know I'm starting to think we might not have been told the truth.1.2×012k3.1k68
82Dec 8, '21BREAKING: Boris Johnson's spokesman says the Cabinet Secretary will *only* investigate the alleged Downing Street party on December 18th, which the prime minister did not attend, a1.2×011k3.2k70
83Aug 19, '22YouGov gives Labour a 15-point lead. LAB: 43% CON: 28% LD: 11% GRN: 7% SNP: 5% REF: 4% If repeated at a general election Labour would get a 126 seat majority. Conservative MPs losi1.1×012k2k40
84May 29, '22A reminder that at no point has anybody ordered anyone to not put a crown stamp on a pint glass.1.1×014k1.8k60
85Apr 20, '22Boris Johnson, who until a few years ago owned a £3.75 million Islington townhouse with his former wife, who is a lawyer, repeatedly attacks Keir Starmer for being a lawyer from Is1.1×014k2.1k43
86Jun 25, '22The Daily Mail: Encouraging tactical voting is undemocratic and dishonest. Also Daily Mail:1.1×012k2.8k114
87Aug 30, '18Sadiq Khan on the balloon blimp of him which has been crowdfunded by far-right activists: "If people want to spend their Saturday looking at me in a yellow bikini they’re welcome t1.1×012k2.3k12
88Nov 16, '21"Paid lobbying is wrong and members found guilty of it should pay the appropriate penalties,” says Jacob Rees-Mogg, who just two weeks ago told all Conservative MPs to vote to stop1.1×011k2.7k27
89Jan 21, '22OMG. They've actually just done The Thick of It.1.1×011k2.3k360
90Oct 26, '22Suella Braverman fails to turn up to the House of Commons to answer the Urgent Question on her resignation and reappointment as Home Secretary.1.1×011k2.4k43
91Jun 20, '22If you mean we're outside the EU with low growth, high inflation and a government that wants to bring back imperial measurements and grammar schools, then yes.1.0×012k1.8k48
92Jan 31, '22Snap poll by Opinium finds: - Two thirds of voters (64%) want Boris Johnson to resign following the Sue Gray report. - 83% believe he broke lockdown rules - 75% believe he is not t1.0×011k2.4k25
93Oct 26, '22Rishi Sunak's attempt to mock Starmer for being a supposedly out-of-touch elite North Londoner, would be somewhat more convincing if he didn't himself own a £7m mansion in Kensingt1.0×011k2.7k46
94Jan 13, '22Jacob Rees-Mogg is asked whether he thinks the leader of the Welsh Conservatives is also “a lightweight figure” and is then challenged to name him. Mogg: “The Secretary of State fo1.0×011k2.3k55
95Nov 25, '21Laughter breaks out in the House of Commons as Cabinet Office Minister Nigel Adams tells MPs “there is no link between party donations and nominations to sit in the House of Lords.1.0×011k2.2k41
96Jul 7, '22Not a single admission of having done anything wrong, or of having any regrets, in Boris Johnson's resignation statement, but he does take the time to blame Conservative MPs for th1.0×011k2.2k25
97Jun 16, '22Laughter in the House of Commons as the Paymaster General Michael Ellis says that "the Prime Minister maintains the highest standards in public life, and will continue to do so."1.0×011k1.7k17
98May 25, '22A reminder that the Mail spent almost two weeks demanding Keir Starmer resign for ordering a curry.1.0×012k1.5k28
99Mar 23, '21For some reason Boris Johnson's press secretary Allegra Stratton won't say whether he agrees with the Scottish Conservatives that a politician who misleads Parliament should have t1.0×010k2.3k31
100Sep 16, '21Piers Morgan says his NewsUK show will be “a place that celebrates the right of everyone to have an opinion, and for those opinions to be vigorously examined and challenged."0.9×011k1.2k78

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