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DARK SECRETS: Honest bob - The Real Truth

Digested week: Hungary’s election result is rare good news in a depressing and surreal world

Not least because JD Vance’s show of support for Viktor Orbán appears to have had opposite of desired effect

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Show of strength by Reform MPs at PMQs turns into a cameo appearance

A well-timed jibe by the prime minister at Nigel Farage’s side-hustle seemed to provoke the party leader into staging a mass walkout

The Guardian - UK

Nige and Honest Bob want to turn politics into a downmarket reality gameshow

But their latest stunt suggests Reform may be hitting the law of diminishing returns with a press conference too far

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Farage delivers energy sermon at the pump – just don’t mention the war

Reform leader’s Derbyshire petrol station stunt grinds to halt when questions on Iran leave him short-tempered

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Nigel Farage assumes Anne Robinson role in political remake of The Weakest Link

Reform UK leader snaps at reporters as he tries to maintain control over announcement of shadow cabinet

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Mandy wonders where it all went wrong as Labour throws him to the wolves

Mandelson tried to explain as everyone from Harriet Harman to Robert Jenrick lined up to condemn him

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Jenrick’s incredible journey – from self-centred halfwit to self-centred halfwit

Reform’s latest defector from the Tories is a politician whose eye has only ever been on his own ambition

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Mystic Nigel has seen the future: a country run by his cabinet of taxidermied Tories

By welcoming ‘Honest Bob’ Jenrick into the fold, the Reform seer is embracing the uniparty chaos he claimed to be seeing off, writes Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

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Treachery and stupidity to the fore as Robert Jenrick defects to Reform

Even Nigel Farage looked taken aback by the news Honest Bob was about to join his flock, but he quickly saw the upside

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Honest Bob gets the party started – the Reform party. Well it’s tough being a Tory

Robert Jenrick gives Conservative conference delegates permission to be the worst possible versions of themselves

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Danny Kruger takes Reform back to full strength – so who’ll be next to quit?

Nigel’s gang has its own ‘one in, one out’ policy, having lost two MPs since the election – now it’s all eyes on the next one to exit

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It’s a love-in at the home affairs committee as Yvette Cooper runs down the clock

Forget tough scrutiny of small boats or asylum hotels – this home secretary appears to lead a charmed life

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Digested week: Mum, Dad, Barry and Herbie the dog – the list of talking dead grows ever longer

I’ve found myself petless for the first time in decades and the house feels empty – a sandwich-eating lion may not be the answer

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Yeah but no but yeah but no but surrender. Life’s just one big betrayal for Kemi and co

Be it winter fuel, criminal justice, the EU or Chagos Islands, never miss a chance to try to rewrite Tory history

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Kemi revels in a Conservative electoral drubbing – in Canada of course

Never mind potential losses at home, the Tory leader was loving the fall of Robert Jenrick’s heroes across the pond

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Labour used to give the needy the benefit of the doubt. Now they slash their benefits

It’s no wonder many people on welfare are starting to look back on the last government with affection

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Jenrick shape-shifts on air with reality-bending Today interview

Shadow justice secretary makes case for second child sexual abuse inquiry, despite ignoring the last one

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Kemi gaslights UK with her shadow cabinet while having a laugh

How else to explain Honest Bob Jenrick winding up as shadow justice secretary?

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The law of averages has let everyone down in Tory leadership race

Badenoch and Jenrick appeal to worst instincts of Tory members, though few seem to care about what is clearly a temporary appointment

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Honest Bob Jenrick won’t sleep until everyone sees he’s the maddest person in the room

The Tory leadership hopeful believes that if he shouts the same things a bit louder, everyone will eventually come round to his way of thinking

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Digested week: My cardio rehab is done, and my dog’s joint care chews are a miracle

Labour lets the Taylor Swift story rumble on, while KemiKaze, Honest Bob and Spurs just leave you feeling indifferent

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KemiKaze and Honest Bob are let loose on GB News where they can’t do any harm

Badenoch fared slightly better in the TV special for the two Tory leadership candidates than Jenrick, who is the party’s very own hollow man

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Sunak has checked out, leaving Starmer looking even more startled than usual

Forget the Taylor Swift debacle or broken promises over national insurance, Rish! just wanted to ask about China

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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

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‘It’s great to be here’: watching the Tories turning farce into annihilation

After Tory MPs send their vaguely normal candidate packing, all the rest of us can do is applaud them for their comic timing

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