Dad’s the word for Andy Burnham, so maybe all party leaders should be seen afresh through a Freudian lens

Most MPs are clinging to this year’s Beckettian slogan, but the chancellor brought his own brand of despair

The PM oozes confidence and easy-going charm as he tells Laura Kuenssberg the hill he’ll die on is fixing social care

The earl on his globally lauded eulogy for Diana, King Charles’s sausage fingers and toxic Raine, topped off with a lavish sprinkling of adverbs

Meeting at the UN in New York, the UK prime minister showed signs he can handle trash-talking President Trump

Helen Jenner replaces Dan Thomas, who stood down after his arrest on suspicion of assault, but gets warm words from Nigel

Andrew Griffith is keen on clearing red tape. Good job he wasn’t part of a Treasury team that abolished the Office for Tax Simplification

In the Trusster’s latest appearance, she says Blair and Brown had a plot to dismantle civilisation and the Tories were part of the woke establishment

US president insists that fears expressed by top experts are a hoax – and that humanity can sleep easy while he’s at the wheel

You can’t buy Dicky’s level of stupidity though it could be argued that Christopher Harborne and Ben Delo just have

The man who once helped Richard ‘Dirty’ Desmond save a load of tax was wheeled out to face Laura Kuenssberg

Oops, Nige skipped over the most embarrassing and dark details – let’s set the record straight

Leader of the opposition rehashes last week’s questions as she comes up short against a PM who preaches consensus politics

Opposition to Miliband’s announcement of sanctions rings hollow – helped by fewer than 10 Tory backbenchers turning up to debate

Chancellor has the look of a man born to announce the UK is under nuclear attack

Has Farage’s brain been hacked? Has he started talking in his sleep? There’s no shortage of explanations for this scandal

Just as the party leader had hoped to change the narrative, along came Channel 4 News to spoil his conference fun

Want to see how small the gene pool of Tory talent is? I give you Andrew Griffith as shadow chancellor. Also this week: Starmer’s Fomo, and telly wars

Burnham has nothing to hide as he prepares to meet president he once called poisonous. It may actually win him more respect

The sense of futility hanging over the room was almost overwhelming as Robert Jenrick took the stage

Dicky Tice recalls digging trenches with a JCB as a young man, omitting to say the firm he went on to run was founded by his grandfather

Nige’s gift, Dicky’s love of global heating and so much more – what fun it is watching the party implode

I can’t pass up the moment the Reform leader celebrates his byelection victory against a man with a dustbin on his head

Honest Bob was rattled at the idea of joining cross-party talks on social care. Why bother behaving as a serious opposition?

Finally a grownup is in charge who speaks to voters as fellow adults. If he fixes this, he’ll achieve more than most other PMs

Shots fired in the Channel are all in a day’s work for the intrepid shadow home secretary

A low-key PM leaves the stage briskly, while a breathtaking athlete misses out on the attention he deserves

The Guardian’s parliamentary sketch writer imagines Nigel Farage’s right-hand man’s thinking behind his book, How to Launder Money

Reform leader’s recycled moanathon included digs at Kemi, the media, immigrants and new PM. But no questions, of course

Rapid turnover of prime ministers continues as UK gets another promise that, this time, things will be different

Keir had achieved greatness, his legacy would be eternal … until the new Labour leader got up to speak

Former 49-day PM helms a Conservative Political Action Conference that’s a far cry from the glitzy US version

It wasn’t his performances on Wednesday lunchtimes that did for the ultimate mid-table PM – it was all the other stuff

Badenoch’s ideological purge gathers pace as moderates are cast out and the Tories edge ever closer to political extinction

After a wild attack on the media, Reform’s deputy leader joins other MPs in the Commons offering tributes rather than speculation