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Ed Balls and a defence of sledging at PMQs
Prime Minister’s Questions is one of the most extraordinary Parliamentary spectacles at Westminster, if not the world. Every week, while Parliament is sitting, the Prime Minister must come to...
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Irrelevant questions undermine the value of PMQs
This post first appeared on the blog of the Parliaments and Legislatures study group of the UK Political Studies Association. The weekly Prime Minister’s Questions is undoubtedly an important mechanism...
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In praise of the PM’s Parliamentary Private Secretary
I have become transfixed by Prime Minister’s Questions, but not by the weekly joust between the PM and the Leader of the Opposition. I am fascinated, instead, by what is going on just over the Prime...
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Watching from the wings: the role of the PM’s PPS in a socially distanced...
PMQs 6 May 2020 – the Prime Minister has often seemed isolated at recent PMQs. (Source: Parliamentlive.tv) It is clear that the Prime Minister is struggling in his the weekly encounter with the Leader...
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