PMQs: Kemi Tries Panto

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

It's Spending Review day, and MPs were treated to a noisy PMQs after Kemi Badenoch promised to make it less like a courtroom and more like a pantomime.

Hugo Rifkind unpacks the action from the Commons with The Times' Chief Political Commentator Patrick Maguire and the comedian Gráinne Maguire.

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0:00.0	PMQ's unpacked on Times Radio, unpacking the politics and cutting through the crossfire.
0:07.4	And I'm joined today by The Times as Chief Little Commentator, Patrick McGuire. Hello, Patrick.
0:11.4	Hello, Hugo. Just very briefly, because I know we've got a lot of important things to discuss.
0:15.7	I can bring you an exclusive from the Times Parliamentary Office. Matt Dathan, our home affairs editor, was mistaken for Eddie Redmayne by Yvette Cooper.
0:23.7	Wow.
0:24.0	And we're now just talking about lookalikes.
0:26.6	I've had Fat Harry Kane in the past.
0:28.8	Wow.
0:29.2	I've had Sandy Toxvig.
0:30.7	I've had young James Corden.
0:32.5	That's pretty good.
0:33.7	So, yeah.
0:34.6	Yeah.
0:34.8	I get it.
0:35.4	What did you do to deserve that?
0:39.2	You're not allowed to talk, I haven't said who you are yet.
0:40.5	Bad diet.
0:42.1	And Gronia McGuire.
0:42.9	Hello, Gronia McGuire.
0:44.6	I've been mistaken for a John C. Riley.
0:45.2	Wow.
0:47.2	Gosh.
	...

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