Downing Street insists ‘Brown is in charge ... while on holiday’

12:01am Tuesday 29th July 2008

She is the first woman to run the country since a tearful Margaret Thatcher departed Downing Street in November, 1990.

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By MICHAEL SETTLE

No earthquake victim at 10 Downing Street … yet

12:23am Saturday 26th July 2008

So the political seismologist from Banff and Buchan was right after all.

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By MICHAEL SETTLE

After drinks with the Chancellor, vultures develop a thirst for blood

12:09am Thursday 17th July 2008

AND so to the chamber of horrors. It was the last PMQs of the session and the insatiable vultures of Her Majesty's Press were perching eagerly, awaiting political blood to be spilled on the manicured Commons carpet.

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By MICHAEL SETTLE

Parliament website costs £3m

12:45am Saturday 12th July 2008

Daniel Bentley MPs have spent more than £3m of taxpayers' cash redesigning the parliamentary website, it has been revealed.

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Will Polly live on or be nailed to the perch?

Thursday 19th June 2008

The spirit of John Cleese's Mr Praline and his famous Norwegian Blue parrot was conjured up at PMQs yesterday when shiny-haired Dave, in his even shinier mackintosh, took on the incredible sulk posing as shopkeeper Michael Palin. The subject? The Lisbon Treaty.

By MICHAEL SETTLE