Quentin Letts
Political Sketch Writer at Daily Mail
Official account for Quentin Letts, parliamentary sketchwriter. New novel 'Nunc!' out in April 2025.
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1 day ago |
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QUENTIN LETTS: So noble was the minister's school-meal pulpiteering, you'd think it was the abolition of slaveryBy QUENTIN LETTS FOR THE DAILY MAIL Published: 20:05 EDT, 5 June 2025 | Updated: 20:05 EDT, 5 June 2025 During elections it is illegal for politicians to buy votes by handing out free food. That is called ‘treating’ the electors. But there is nothing to stop MPs doing similar outside election periods.
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2 days ago |
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QUENTIN LETTS: Pop! Mount Kemi blew her top like Etna ... vulcanologists in Geneva may have picked up a blip on their seismographsBy QUENTIN LETTS Published: 14:13 EDT, 4 June 2025 | Updated: 14:13 EDT, 4 June 2025 Mount Etna erupted this week. Kemi Badenoch did something similar at PMQs. Blew her top. Pop!Who could blame her? Sir Keir Starmer has become idly, sarcastically evasive.
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3 days ago |
dailymail.co.uk | Quentin Letts
Biggest vote turner at present? Small boats. That explains the rise of Nigel Farage’s Reform. Yesterday Yvette Cooper arrived at the home affairs select committee for what was expected to be a showdown. She was set to be interrogated about ‘the work of the Home Office’. MPs were bound to go big on the small boats crisis. Weren’t they? Not this lot. It was an hour and a half before the matter was raised and it received just ten minutes.
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4 days ago |
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QUENTIN LETTS: The Lib Dems are no longer against nukes - as long as they're fuelled by lentil gas, perhaps!By QUENTIN LETTS FOR THE DAILY MAIL Published: 16:38 EDT, 2 June 2025 | Updated: 16:39 EDT, 2 June 2025 When North Korea tried to launch a warship the other day, things did not go entirely to plan and the vessel capsized. Labour's announcement of its defence plans nearly went the same way. What a foul-up they made of it.
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5 days ago |
dailymail.co.uk | Quentin Letts
The gendarmerie may be in for a busy summer. It will soon be illegal to smoke outdoors in France, the government having ruled that 'tobacco must disappear where there are children'. The ban will apply anywhere near youngsters, from the ski slopes of La Plagne or Courchevel to the boulevards of Reims and Marseille. Defense de fumer.
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The Da Vinci code was c. 140,000 words and Harry Potter 240,000 words. My new novel NUNC!, described by kne critic as 'adorable', is 60,000. Tight as a cork, just as novels used to be. https://t.co/M7N1JAGyOB
Proud today to appear at the music festival @StDavidsCath talking about my novel NUNC! with singing from ace choral scholars. Later @BBCNOW gave a stonking concert: Elgar's Sea Pictures and Dvorak's New World symphony. The double basses went bananas. And the bishop was a hoot.