Politics p.9

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

Camilla Tominey’s ‘won’t somebody think of the middle-class Right-wingers’ plea had everyone rushing to their tiny violins – 19 responses completely devoid of sympathy

It’s Pride Month so the edgy Laurence Fox has been burning flags again – 17 withering replies

Zia Yusuf told Laura Kuenssberg that Reform chose respecting the wishes of Henry Nowak’s family over making a political argument – 17 counterpoints

Failed Reform candidate Matt Goodwin claimed that ‘JD Vance is closer to the British people than Keir Starmer’, and the chinny reckon was visible from space

Ian Hislop relentlessly tore “cockroach” Michael Gove apart to his face on HIGNFY, and it will be 4 minutes of your time well spent

Pete Hegseth used a D-Day speech to talk about migrants “invading European beaches” – 16 historically furious and funny responses

Reform UK’s Essex County Council are starting meetings with Christian prayers and ending by singing the national anthem, and the video will make you wish you didn’t have ears

JD Vance blamed “migration” for Henry Nowak’s murder and called for “righteous anger” in response, and Brits were quick to tell him to maybe sit this one out