The Latest Breaking News from Philpster

Burnham refreshes the parts others can’t reach on the Andy and Laura show

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

The Guardian - UK · Sep 27

Captain Chris ‘Hunter-Killer’ Philp single-handedly takes on French navy

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

The Guardian - UK · Jul 28

Up pops Katie Lam to outbigot Robert Jenrick on the nastiness scale

It’s hard to keep up with everyone the Tory MP tipped as a future party leader hates

The Guardian - UK · Oct 23, 2025

Keir Starmer rolls up his sleeves to legitimise the Two Minutes Hate

Government attacks people crossing the Channel in small boats in its latest bout of punching down

The Guardian - UK · Mar 31, 2025

A defeated KemiKaze offers less opposition than Starmer’s own MPs

All the fight seems to have gone out of the opposition leader, but mood on Labour’s backbenches is frosty over benefit cuts

The Guardian - UK · Mar 19, 2025

Rise of Chris Philp tests the limits of the Peter principle

With a knack for backing losers, the former enthusiastic supporter of Liz Truss became shadow home secretary

The Guardian - UK · Jan 28, 2025

KemiKaze lies low, letting Honest Bob talk himself into losing Tory leadership race

Robert Jenrick’s ‘slightly clearer vision’ for the Conservatives is not wowing anyone while Kemi Badenoch is being kept out of sight to stop her upsetting anyone else

The Guardian - UK · Oct 15, 2024

Channel 4 election debate reaches new depths of futility

Seven lesser candidates share existential crisis as they debate crime and immigration to negligible interest

The Guardian - UK · Jun 18, 2024

Tory Top Team send the Mighty Philpster to tackle PMQs trans joke fallout

As Labour agonised over their £28bn-a-year green pledge, No 10 was working on mitigating Sunak’s latest PMQs disaster

The Guardian - UK · Feb 8, 2024