What an awesome hire!!!

Weird thing about this: the Tories cannot exactly go on the attack seeing as they didn't remove the whip.

This is a pretty strange PMQs. Sunak really does look like a beaten man. Not saying he can't bounce back etc etc, but the lines seem stale and he looks flat.

Sunak has a whiff of irritation about him today. Unsurprising, but it's not a great look to have such a short fuse.

I am pretty sure no one had Natalie Elphicke defecting to Labour today. Wonder what odds you'd have got on that this morning?

This is crackers. That is a really big surprise.

The thing about the Garrick is it's absolutely crap

15 years ago today, my @telegraph colleagues and I were about to publish this story - and start what would become the #mpexpenses scandal. Christopher Hope📝 Holly Watt Jon Swaine nick allen William Lewis Chris Evans Telegraph Matthew Bayley caroline gammell

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The Trump hush money trial might be tawdry but it’s likely the only one he’ll face before the election

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It's not acknowledged often enough amid other new broadcasters' various successes/failures, but Times Radio really has quietly just become very good.

Congressmen demand answers after CNN report contradicts Pentagon investigations into deadly Kabul airport attack

Follow up to incredible work by my colleagues Nick Paton Walsh and Mick Krever

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Akiya houses: Super-aged Japan now has 9 million vacant homes. And that’s a problem | CNN edition.cnn.com/2024/05/07/asi…

Tom is right, the headline is declarative.

An optimistic take on Europe's reform difficulties. More Europe means a larger mandate, rather than more obstacles, argue Isabell Hoffmann and Catherine De Vries

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I like that with the flags he’s used it looks like he’s calling for England to leave the Union #Englexit