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Dennis Skinner

December 2022

  • Performance politics … Maxine Peake in Betty! A Sort of Musical at Royal Exchange theatre, Manchester.

    Betty! A Sort of Musical review – Maxine Peake brings Boothroyd’s story to the stage

    A slightly wonky meta structure involving a team of amdram actors muddles this show about the former MP but it has abundant charm

January 2022

  • Gareth Williams (from the Flying Pickets) as Dennis Skinner and Lisa Allen as Margaret Thatcher in The Palace of Varieties.

    The Palace of Varieties review – the Beast of Bolsover snarls at Thatcher and spars with Boris Johnson

    Using music hall and Broadway songs to tell the story of former MP Dennis Skinner’s colourful Commons battles makes surprising sense

November 2019

  • Nigel Farage in boxing gloves

    Boxing clever? Farage takes aim at leave voters in Labour seats

    It had been a bruising 24 hours for Brexit party leader before entering the ring in Bolsover

October 2019

  • Labour MP Dennis Skinner heckles Black Rod – video

    Labour MP Dennis Skinner offers his usual heckling response to Black Rod during the Queen's speech ceremony 

December 2018

  • Labour MP Dennis Skinner pictured in the Commons

    MPs behaving badly before the rude tube

    Letter: Confrontations in the Commons are nothing new, argues Mark Boyle, and you can’t blame televising parliament for a decline in civility

September 2018

  • Labour Party annual conference 2018<br>Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn giving his keynote speech at the party's annual conference at the Arena and Convention Centre (ACC), in Liverpool. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Wednesday September 26, 2018. See PA LABOUR stories. Photo credit should read: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Corbyn uses conference speech to tell May he would back Brexit deal on Labour's terms – Politics live

    Rolling coverage of the final day of the Labour conference in Liverpool, including Jeremy Corbyn’s keynote speech

July 2018

  • Dennis Skinner: Nature of the Beast Dennis in the House of Commons

    Sorry, you can’t be working class and socialist in the new authentocracy

    Phil McDuff
    From Dennis Skinner in the UK to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in the US, class authenticity has been hijacked by ‘aspirational’ rightwing ideology, says social policy writer Phil McDuff

January 2018

  • Jeremy Corbyn and Labour's Brexit spokesman, Keir Starmer, outside EU headquarters

    Goodbye Berliner, auf wiedersehen Berlin, so long Labour?

    Letters: Just as the Guardian is changing format, so can the EU, but Labour must also change its approach to Brexit, says Nick Mayer, while Mike Harding explains why he has torn up his Labour membership card

September 2017

  • Dennis Skinner: Nature of the Beast Dennis in the House of Commons

    Nature of the Beast review – Dennis the menace

    Daniel Draper’s portrait of Dennis Skinner is a decent hymn to socialism but lacks urgency
  • Still hard at work … Dennis Skinner in the House of Commons

    Dennis Skinner: The Nature of the Beast review – tender portrait of a Labour titan

    From miners’ strike battles to filibustering Enoch Powell, this affectionate profile captures the Derby MP’s granite integrity and love of mischief
  • Daniel Draper: ‘I’m working class myself, and I feel Dennis is fighting for my class.’

    Daniel Draper, film-maker: ‘Dennis Skinner sang to me over the phone’

    The man who persuaded Labour’s ‘Beast of Bolsover’ to commit his story to the big screen says his subject was ‘a joy to work with’

August 2017

  • Sofia Coppola photographed at Claridges Hotel, London for the Observer New Review by Pal Hansen

    The best original photographs from the Observer
    Original Observer photography: July 2017

    MPs David Lammy and Dennis Skinner, film director Sofia Coppola and Wimbledon winners feature in this month’s showcase of the best photography commissioned by the Observer

July 2017

  • Labour MP Dennis Skinner

    Dennis Skinner: ‘I’ve never done any cross-party stuff. I can’t even contemplate it’

  • Dennis Skinner sings

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    Dennis Skinner breaks into song during interview – video

  • John McDonnell (centre) greets the Disabled People Against Cuts protesters at Westminster

    Disability activists block House of Commons entrance in cuts protest

  • Gloria De Piero

    Senior Labour figures clash over concerns of working-class voters

June 2017

  • Watch Dennis Skinner's traditional Queen's speech joke - video

    Labour MP Dennis Skinner, a republican, by tradition always makes a joke as Black Rod summons MPs to attend the Queen in the Lords.

April 2017

  • A Conservative party campaign bus

    Theresa May backs MPs investigated over 2015 election spending

    Labour MP says Tories under investigation should not be able to stand for re-election, with CPS decision on charges imminent

January 2017

  • Protesters holding placards demonstrate outside Downing Street against Donald Trump’s ban on travel from seven Muslim-majority countries.

    Theresa May stands firm on Donald Trump state visit as thousands protest

    Prime minister says ‘UK takes a different approach’ but defends invitation despite growing outrage over US travel ban

September 2016

  • Face off between an NUM picket and lines of police, who have removed their numbers from their coat shoulders, in what became known as the Battle of Orgreave.

    Orgreave miners' strike inquiry 'will go ahead'

    A public inquiry into alleged police brutality at the 1984 Orgreave picket will take place after a review of material in October, according to reports
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