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1Aug 13, '23Labour MP wants party to commit to build 450,000 homes a year93.4×215k3195812
2Oct 24, '24Redundancy payouts for losing MPs is "not enough", says a Tory who was ousted on 4 July James Sunderland told The Rundown the experience of losing his seat had been "very difficult80.3×185k50214022
3Jul 30, '25🚨 Exclusive: Ed Davey has met with BBC boss Tim Davie to complain about the broadcaster’s coverage, which the Liberal Democrats claim is weighted too heavily in Reform UK’s favour71.8×166k6.3k1.2k38
4Jun 24, '25A group of Labour MPs have reaffirmed calls for the government to proscribe the Iranian Revolutionary Guards "Ministers should consider expediting legislation and move to ban the I44.4×103k57219211
5Jun 29, '25I will vote against the Welfare Bill - I don’t want anyone to feel the regret I've had since 2015 ✍️ @EmmaLewell37.8×87k35314521
6Oct 25, '25Exclusive: Lord Hermer is a defendant in a civil suit he drafted and represented until weeks before the 2024 election, which implicates the previous Labour government in complicity37.7×87k38216531
7Jan 10, '23🗯️ Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner responded to the introduction of a bill enforcing minimum service levels during strikes "My constituent died waiting for an ambulance and tha31.5×73k6171666
8Apr 19, '23😳 "I know the justice secretary has been busy trying to save his own job rather than actually doing it..." Keir Starmer made a dig at Dominic Raab at #PMQs21.6×50k4781501
9Jun 15, '23😬 "There is no precedent for a Prime Minister having been found to have deliberately misled the House. He misled the House on an issue of the greatest importance to the House and 17.1×39k5381394
10Apr 26, '22NEW: Yvette Cooper says Priti Patel is the “weakest Home Secretary I’ve ever seen”13.1×05k9038
11Apr 26, '23🤯 "They like to pretend it was all just one week of madness last autumn, but the truth is it's been 13 years of failure." Keir Starmer asked the prime minister how he thinks "his 12.7×29k3301092
12Feb 6, '17Read John Bercow's FULL speech slamming Donald Trump on our Liveblog:11×03k1.4k0
13Dec 6, '19Former Tory PM John Major to join election rally aimed at blocking Boris Johnson majority9.5×02.3k1.3k11
14Mar 4, '22🇺🇦 Aleksandr, a 19-year-old student, fled to Poland from Ukraine following the Russian invasion 📲 Through texts and voice messages, he kept in touch with @kate_m_proctor on his 9.3×02.3k903465
15Nov 18, '21"I don't think another word suffices the levels of corruption." Labour MP @zarahsultana was reprimanded by Deputy Commons Speaker Eleanor Laing for refusing to "moderate her langua7.7×02.1k53342
16May 17, '21Government didn't expect Brexit to be so disruptive to Northern Ireland, David Frost admits7.2×096345332
17Aug 18, '21"You cannot coordinate an international response from the beach." Keir Starmer criticised Boris Johnson and Dominic Raab for going on holiday as the situation in Afghanistan deteri7.1×02.5k62727
18Jul 9, '22Labour’s deputy leader Angela Rayner has said the party will seek to remove Boris Johnson from Downing Street next week, claiming it is “unacceptable” for the Prime Minister to sta6.6×02.8k3713
19May 29, '21EXCLUSIVE 🚨 Campaigners and carers are demanding the government publish its long-awaited review into “barbaric” benefits rules forcing terminally ill people to attend work assessm6.4×01k99151
20Jun 14, '21"I find it totally unacceptable that once again we see Downing Street running roughshod over MPs" Speaker Lindsay Hoyle said he is considering "other avenues" to force ministers to5.8×01.7k52025
21Sep 14, '20Ed Miliband: "He can't blame [Theresa May]. He can't blame John Major. He can't blame the judges... There's only one person responsible for it and that's him. This is his deal. It'5.8×01.9k54924
22Jun 1, '22NEW Senior Tory says UK should rejoin single market to ease cost of living crisis5.8×02.1k4445
23Jul 13, '21"Fewer girls will be educated, more girls and boys will become slaves, more children will go hungry, and more of poorest people in world will die.” Former PM @theresa_may has said 4.7×01.4k40319
24Jun 8, '20Boris Johnson ‘mulls crackdown on Chinese takeovers’ amid row over Huawei and Hong Kong4.7×08978750
25Feb 17, '20NEW: Rebecca Long-Bailey would offer Jeremy Corbyn a place in her shadow Cabinet4.6×01.3k3163
26Aug 18, '21"I can hear all those who spoke up against this intervention, not because they support the Taliban... but because they were serious about a long term peace in the world." @jeremyco4.4×01.5k44821
27Jul 22, '20Keir Starmer hit back at Boris Johnson over his “pre-prepared gags on flip flops“, saying the former columnist "wrote two versions of every article ever published"4.4×01.6k30521
28Apr 5, '19Pro-Brexit Tory peer warns of 'insurrectionary forces' if Leave vote not respected4.3×04282831
29Jan 15, '22👀 The mood at No 10 is reportedly low following multiple reports of lockdown-breaking parties 🤷‍♂️ PoliticsHome understands staff in more junior roles feel dejected by how their 4.1×058133619
31Feb 16, '20New Downing Street adviser called for 'universal contraception' to stop 'permanent underclass'3.6×030242517
32Sep 22, '20Exclusive: Serco have subcontracted contract tracing jobs to the company embroiled in the tax credit scandal and debt collection services3.5×044660625
33Feb 2, '20Keir Starmer says he would bring back EU freedom of movement if he becomes Prime Minister3.3×06852282
34Apr 12, '22"If those rules were broken, then there will be disciplinary action for all those involved." Boris Johnson said on 8 Dec that he'd been "repeatedly assured" that "no Covid rules we3.2×073937410
35Jun 9, '17NEW: Ruth Davidson demands Theresa May presses DUP on LGBT rights3.0×05573540
37Aug 6, '20NEW: Public confidence in Government's handling of coronavirus pandemic shattered by ‘Dominic Cummings effect’, says study2.9×08503406
38Nov 17, '21"Sit down Prime Minister. I'm not going to be challenged. You may be Prime Minister of this country but in this House I'm in charge." Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle took a strong tone w2.9×091224320
39Feb 11, '20NEW: Labour should print free tabloid-style newspaper for commuters, says Richard Burgon2.8×05391525
40May 31, '17NEW - EXCL Brussels prepared to postpone start of Brexit talks if Jeremy Corbyn becomes Prime Minister2.8×03664530
41Jun 1, '17Keir Starmer: “You can’t start a campaign tattooing ‘strong and stable’ on your forehead, then U-turn on your manifesto four days later."2.8×06144680
42Sep 9, '21"I would literally give anything not to be standing here today in her place." Batley and Spen MP Kim Leadbeater gave her maiden speech during a special debate paying tribute to her2.7×01.1k17032
43Nov 3, '22Tory MP Andrew Bridgen set to be suspended from Parliament for five days over paid lobbying2.7×07192494
44Mar 24, '22"I've never heard such farcical answers to a series of questions." @AndyMcDonaldMP accused P&O Ferries chief executive Peter Hebblethwaite of "[choosing] to break the law" by n2.6×066030619
45Jul 20, '20‘History teaches us that we cannot stay silent in the face of what is happening to China’s Uighur community’ — the Holocaust Educational Trust’s @KarenPollock100 writes for @TheHou2.5×066532113
46Feb 7, '19NEW: Former Labour leadership challenger Owen Smith hints he could quit over Jeremy Corbyn's Brexit stance2.4×03781650
47Nov 3, '21There were shouts of "shame" and "what have you done to this place" from MPs as the Commons voted to overturn Tory MP Owen Paterson’s suspension for breaking lobbying rules The mot2.3×052520114
48Aug 18, '21"I've watched good men go into the earth, taking with them a part of me, a part of all of us." @TomTugendhat — who served in Afghanistan — said he'd had assurances from the health 2.3×072920328
49Mar 11, '21"Killed women are not vanishingly rare. Killed women are common." Speaking during a debate to mark #InternationalWomensDay, shadow minister @jessphillips read out the names of ever2.3×074622610
50Jan 12, '22"Can't the Prime Minister see why the British public think he's lying through his teeth?" Keir Starmer highlighted Boris Johnson's past claims that he hadn't attended alleged parti2.2×068318921
51Mar 24, '22"Are you in this mess because you don’t know what you’re doing, or are you just a shameless criminal?" @CommonsBEIS chair @darrenpjones quizzed P&O Ferries chief executive Pete2.2×060220712
52Jul 31, '21🎶 Post-Brexit red tape and extra costs could be killing off the next generation of UK musical talent, Blur drummer @DaveRowntree has warned He told PoliticsHome’s @AdamPayne26 tha2.2×046424418
53Feb 7, '20NEW: Rebecca Long-Bailey pledges to ban emails outside working hours to end '24/7 culture'2.2×0426881
54Jun 26, '19EXCL Chris Williamson is allowed back into Labour party after suspension over anti-semitism rows2.2×03241292
55Nov 28, '19Boris Johnson 'running scared' of Andrew Neil grilling, claims Labour chair Ian Lavery2.1×05592831
56Jan 27, '19NEW: Labour's Angela Rayner says public 'don't want' Article 50 extension as she rubbishes second referendum2.0×03041570
57Sep 23, '20Coronavirus testing chief Dido Harding is being asked by MPs to provide the evidence behind the new 10pm pub curfew and the decision to only allow table service.2.0×06011801
58Feb 24, '19Liam Fox slaps down Cabinet colleagues over plan to halt no-deal Brexit2.0×06441681
59Nov 18, '20Exclusive: A cannabis research firm with only £6,000 in assets has been handed two PPE contracts worth £33m1.9×029223211
60Feb 1, '17Owen Smith: "Brexit vote began with immigration...it’s ended with the PM hand-in-hand with a racist president."1.9×04462860
61Feb 5, '20NEW: Diane Abbott under fire for claiming John Bercow could not have bullied ex-Black Rod because he was in the Army1.9×04331581
62Aug 5, '19NEW: Majority of Scots now in favour of independence, shock poll reveals1.9×02881802
63Jan 29, '22NEW: Brand Boris permanently damaged with voters, say pollsters, as Johnson fights to stave off confidence vote1.8×05891749
64Jun 23, '21🇬🇧👋🇪🇺 Five years on from the historic vote to leave the European Union, have any of the big campaign claims from Leave and Remain come true? PoliticsHome’s @johnjohnstonmi tak1.8×031124250
65Aug 7, '20Keir Starmer overtakes Boris Johnson as voters’ choice for PM for first time — poll1.8×04941702
66Sep 12, '21Sajid Javid confirms vaccine passports will not go ahead1.6×0350834
67Oct 29, '20Corbyn, who has represented Islington North in the House of Commons since 1983, will now sit as an independent MP while an internal inquiry takes place.1.5×029910618
68Jun 15, '22😬 A senior MP in the Northern Ireland Office has withdrawn his call for the government to cut ties with the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) after it was pointed out tha1.5×03501334
70Sep 26, '22"We're the party of business, the party of growth, the party of jobs." Shadow home secretary @YvetteCooperMP told PoliticsHome that "the Labour party is ready for government" and w1.5×04999210
71Jul 8, '20NEW: Commons watchdog orders Conservative Lord Goldsmith to repay almost £9,000 after breaking expenses rules1.4×02591934
74Jul 14, '22🚨 Exclusive — Penny Mordaunt is the overwhelming favourite among young Tories, polling of @YoungConNetwork members shows 📊 Mordaunt was the first choice among 31%, while Rishi Su1.4×04011266
75Jun 4, '17On the steps of Downing Street Theresa May condemns Islamist extremist ideology and says defeating it "will be the challenge of our time".1.4×03951650
77Jan 20, '22"The reports of which I'm aware would seem to constitute blackmail." Tory MP William Wragg has accused No 10 officials of "intimidation" for threatening to withdraw funding from MP1.3×02841388
78Nov 3, '21"You should learn the lessons, if you keep cheating the public it catches up with you in the end." Angela Rayner — standing in for Keir Starmer at #PMQs — suggested that Boris John1.3×04021394
80Feb 8, '19NEW WATCH: Tom Watson says Luciana Berger's critics 'bring disgrace' to the Labour party1.3×03071410
81Dec 8, '21"Ant and Dec are ahead of the Prime Minister on this." Keir Starmer said Boris Johnson had been "caught red handed" after the PM promised to investigate reports that a Christmas pa1.3×04159614
82Jul 7, '21Chris Bryant: "It seems that you very rarely correct the record. Why is that?" The PM defends his infamous £350m claim during the Brexit campaign, and asks if that was what Bryant 1.2×028514112
84Aug 5, '20NEW: Labour call for Claire Fox's peerage to be blocked after failure to apologise for supporting IRA bomb in Warrington which killed two children1.2×03261404
86Jan 18, '18Ken Clarke: 'I am very glad I am here. It’s the maddest situation I have seen in my entire political career'1.2×03081540
87Feb 3, '19Liam Fox says MPs who block Brexit ‘deserve to be punished’ at the ballot box1.1×0331910
88Jan 28, '22Tory MP: "Frankly, the Met refused to investigate. Somebody else has done all the work. Then they said, we will take it from here and, by the way you can't publish it. It's a compl1.1×03301356
89Sep 11, '20"He also said we must not return to the squabbling of last autumn, and I could see Theresa May looking angry. People could definitely see the irony of that."1.1×03431057
92Dec 6, '19NEW: Sir John Major calls on voters to back candidates running against the Conservatives1.1×02831452
93Jan 31, '22Theresa May: “Either my right honourable friend had not read the rules, or didn’t understand what they meant and others around him, or didn’t think they applied to Number 10. Which1.1×028711010
94Dec 30, '19NEW: Over 175,000 people sign petition to block Iain Duncan Smith’s knighthood1.0×0337922
95Oct 7🔵 OUT NOW 🔵: London mayoral hopeful @FestAKINBUSOYE joins PolHome's @Alain_Tolhurst & @harriet_symonds for a live recording of The Rundown podcast at Conservative Party confe1.0×2.3k210
96Apr 20, '20NEW: Two-thirds of voters want Brexit transition period extended so ministers can focus on tackling coronavirus - poll1.0×02571332
97Nov 9, '22🤐 Rishi Sunak was informed of a "bullying and misogyny" complaint about Gavin Williamson before he appointed him to cabinet0.9×02791010
98Jun 9, '17NEW: 'I was clearly wrong' - Jeremy Corbyn's Labour critics congratulate the leader0.9×02841080
99Feb 25, '22Sadiq Khan calls on government to seize London property owned by Russian oligarchs0.8×0266694

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