Prime Ministers

...By Chris MasonPolitical editorWhen you read the memoirs of former Prime Ministers, they all tend to agree on one thing: PMQs is a bit of a nightmare...

... The get together itself is enough to irk some in government - foreign Prime Ministers meeting opposition leaders rarely goes down well with their actual opposite numbers...

... Former Prime Ministers Tony Blair and David Cameron both promised to ban the group, whose stated aim is the re-establishment of an Islamic caliphate, before abandoning the proposals, Mr Adelekan said the Hizb-Ut-Tahrir protest would be subject to strict requirements that it should begin at 13:00 GMT and disperse at 15:30...

... These actions will breed more terrorism And another interesting development is the publication by what s called the " Elders" a group of retired Prime Ministers, Presidents and elder statesmen and women from around the world, of a statement condemning Hamas but also saying that " Destroying Gaza and killing civilians is not making Israel safer...

... How is it, foreign ministers said to me, that the West slams Russia for killing civilians in Ukraine, yet, in their words, it " gives a green light to Israel to do the same in Gaza" In the luxurious surroundings of Riyadh s Ritz-Carlton hotel, amid giant floral bouquets and glittering chandeliers, and a world away from the shattered landscape of Gaza, princes, presidents and Prime Ministers met for the Joint Arab Islamic Extraordinary Summit...

... On Sunday, when they stood together in the line-up of Prime Ministers at the Remembrance Day ceremony at the cenotaph, there was no sign that both had already agreed on the political bombshell that would drop the very next day...

... Others, not least in the Labour Party, ask whether all this amounts to a coherent strategy at all, given its only weeks ago that Rishi Sunak was seeking to define himself against recent governments and Prime Ministers...

... But fear is one of the currencies Prime Ministers can require to succeed...