Politics p.10

Green MP Hannah Spencer’s two-word takedown of Reform UK was already good but the furious response of its supporters took it to a whole new level

Richard Tice was hit so hard by Keir Starmer’s PMQs comeback that he erased it from his Twitter feed but don’t let that stop you from enjoying it

Mehdi Hasan called out the right-wing political interference of Elon Musk, and it’s an unmissable minute of brutal honesty

Nigel Farage invited the unions to join the new ‘party of the workers’, Reform UK, and got fact-checked from Westminster to Clacton – 21 scathing takedowns

A Texas Maga blamed the reporter for Trump’s humiliating hissy fit and of all the clap backs, Stephen King surely said it best

Ted Cruz tried to warn Fox News viewers what will happen if Democrats swing the midterms and inadvertently told on himself in the process

JD Vance said the Republicans had a ‘great chance’ in the upcoming elections and his reasoning will make you wonder which dimension he is living in

Mick Lynch boiled down all that’s wrong with Farage’s Reform UK to its very essence and it was brilliantly done

Robert Kenyon’s Andy Burnham ‘gotcha’ didn’t go entirely to plan and said so much more about him than it did his Labour rival

Victoria Derbyshire’s takedown of Reform UK-er Laila Cunningham over the incredible disappearing Nigel Farage is a masterclass in this sort of thing

Tommy Robinson has ‘made’ a cringey AI movie trailer casting ‘himself’ as a Roman military leader – 17 one-star reviews

The Tories announced they’d abolish business rates for thousands of premises, and 14 years of Tory government entered the chat

Donald Trump appeared to blame the FBI for January 6 and it set off a riot in the replies – 15 terrific takedowns

Trump’s excuse for storming out of his latest TV news interview made his humiliating early exit even lamer and prompted a perfect storm of mockery

Donald Trump denied he promised American voters ‘No more wars’ and got fact checked to the moon and back