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The Prime Minister slipped up in several parts of his statement: he almost annexed Krakow to Ukraine and, even more worryingly, nearly promoted Sir Chris Bryant to home secretary. Mrs Badenoch, perhaps smelling blood, asked why it was that the PM – a supposed critic of neoliberalism – had entrusted his ten-year plan to the junior Excel monkeys of the Boston Consulting Group. In his reply Mr Burnham was back on firmer ground; namely, meaningless statements of intent without any firm commitment to action. 'I'm determined to give stability and leadership,' he warbled. He did claim that it was his aim to present the plan to the House before it rises for its festive recess. What a Christmas present that is: MPs must be on the 'very naughty' list. ✍️ Madeline Grant Article | spectator.com/article/burnha… | @Madz_Grant

Lara recalls her earliest memory of Russell Brand when she watched an anti-drugs video he made for schools, finding him unkempt, intensely irritating and unfunny. Watch in full | youtu.be/YJ9SrkWek0M @michaelgove @lara_e_brown

Andy Burnham put in a poor performance at today's Prime Minister's Questions. He had a slightly plodding delivery, which didn't help, but the real problem was that he didn't have anything to say. The Prime Minister ended up asking Kemi Badenoch a lot of questions to try to deflect from his inability to give answers himself. There were just too many of these deflections, though, and he appeared unsure and evasive. ✍️ Isabel Hardman Article | spectator.com/article/andy-b… | @IsabelHardman

Did Russell Brand make a hard pivot to the political right in 2020 because he knew his crimes were catching up with him? Watch in full | youtu.be/YJ9SrkWek0M @michaelgove @lara_e_brown

Michael and Lara look at how Labour's proposed conversion therapy legislation could threaten free speech and leave parents at risk of criminal prosecution for questioning their child's gender identity. Watch in full | youtu.be/YJ9SrkWek0M @michaelgove @lara_e_brown

Michael and Lara discuss the downfall of Russell Brand, and ask why the BBC and figures on the Left were so willing to embrace him. What does his rise and fall tell us about the institutions that gave him a platform, and their pursuit of younger audiences? Watch in full | youtu.be/YJ9SrkWek0M @michaelgove @lara_e_brown

Desperate Lucy Powell this morning scrambled to explain why she helped arrange an interview between Ed Miliband and Russell Brand in 2015. The Education Secretary, then Red Ed's chief of staff, was challenged over the Labour leader's cosy chat on Brand's YouTube show, The Trews. Asked why it was ever able to take place, given Brand was already known to be 'wrong with women', Powell insisted she had not been dazzled by his glamour – and it seemed fine at the time. She claimed: 'I have a very low threshold – I’ve got to say now and always have had through my career – a very low threshold for power hungry, arrogant, rude, sexual-predating men. You know that was true then as it is today. And what was known at the time is very different to what we know now.' ✍️ Steerpike Article | spectator.com/article/lucy-p… | @MrSteerpike

Is now the time to bring back national service? Defence Secretary Wes Streeting says the country has 1,000 days to get war-ready amid intensifying threats and aggression from Vladimir Putin. Ted Jeffrey, co-founder of Defence On The Brink which campaigns for UK defence readiness, says a resilient, hardened and capable population is needed; not a country with 10 million people of working-age on benefits. Article | spectator.com/article/is-now… @DefenceBrink

Douglas Murray says 'Palestinianism' is less a liberation movement than a cult of victimhood, arguing that each time the Palestinians have been offered a state they have refused. Watch in full | youtube.com/watch?v=-SjngLTd… | @michaelgove @douglaskmurray

Marine Le Pen tore into Western 'multiculturalism' in a fiery interview with US programme 60 Minutes last night. Speaking to Trevor Phillips, poached by Bari Weiss to bolster CBS, the presidential frontrunner warned those who despise her culture that the door is open for them to leave Europe. Asked about her views on multiculturalism, Le Pen said: 'Your world approaches immigration through integration. We believe someone who comes to immigrate to our country must bend in to the national community. ✍️ Steerpike Article | spectator.com/article/watch-… | @MrSteerpike

A long-standing member of the Western Front Association, Farage regularly attended and then conducted battlefront tours from the mid-1980s until the mid-2010s. Now, his team are trying to showcase that great passion by releasing a film of his first battlefield visit in a decade to coincide with Remembrance Sunday today. A 43-minute documentary shows Farage touring the trenches of the Great War, visiting memorials and explaining what life was like for the soldiers. Various journalists, including myself, were invited to a screening on Thursday, ahead of its release. ✍️ James Heale Article | spectator.com/article/farage… | @JAHeale

Douglas Murray says the roots of Islamic anti-Semitism can be traced back hundreds of years, and explains why Judaism continues to stand as a rebuke to Islam. Watch in full | youtube.com/watch?v=-SjngLTd… | @michaelgove @douglaskmurray

Has Labour lost control of Britain's prisons? As the government's early release scheme comes under increasing scrutiny, Michael Gove diagnoses the failures of the prison system and the growing strain on probation services. Watch in full | youtu.be/p2nsQ6i4Qmo | @michaelgove

Following disastrous midterm results for Donald Trump, Republicans will be wondering where it all went wrong. Tim Stanley argues that right-wing pundits such as Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes will claim they swung the vote by agitating against the White House and attacking America's links to Israel. Watch in full | youtu.be/p2nsQ6i4Qmo| @timothy_stanley

After Israeli jets and American B-2 bombers destroyed Iran’s nuclear reactors, Tehran struck back at Israel's Weizmann Institute destroying its cancer research unit, which Douglas Murray says 'tells us an awful lot' about the moral gap between Israel and its enemies. Watch in full | youtube.com/watch?v=-SjngLTd… | @michaelgove @douglaskmurray

'Too many conservatives on both sides of the Atlantic looked at Trump and thought - cruelty works' Tim Stanley explains how the Republican's midterm elections bullying playbook spectacularly backfired. Watch in full | youtu.be/p2nsQ6i4Qmo @timothy_stanley

Next week, Britain will lead a multinational military training exercise in Poland to prepare for peace in Ukraine. But is this rehearsal too optimistic when there is no indication that Ukraine and Russia are close to striking a peace deal? The Spectator's Lisa Haseldine reports. Read Lisa's full article here | spectator.com/article/the-co… @lisahaseldine

It was like watching a hungry seagull try to lecture on metaphysics. Despite her obvious lack of ability, Haigh still trotted out stock insults aimed at her opposite number. At one point she suggested that Alex Burghart shouldn't read out his questions, before reading out her answers (and not answering his questions). In fact, I got the sense that Burghart was being gentlemanly in his reticence to go in for the kill: had Labour put up an open can of sardines in the bottom of a barrel, it would have been a less obvious target than Haigh. But if anything, his stoic demeanour seemed to rile her further. Burghart's questions were mostly about benefits. He highlighted the fact that the bill was higher now than it had been even during Covid. Again and again Haigh – who yelled like an unlikeable landlady – insisted that the bill was coming down without explaining in any way how it would do so. ✍️ Madeline Grant Article | spectator.com/article/louise… | @Madz_Grant

Donald Trump’s party got an absolute battering in the midterms with senior Republicans pinning the blame on the Iran war. But another issue was on voters’ minds: corruption. The Spectator's US editor Freddy Gray reports. Article | spectator.com/article/indeed… | @Freddygray31

As Commonwealth leaders demand slavery reparations from Britain, Michael argues they should stop whining and grow up. Has Labour opened the door to an endless stream of demands? And is the Commonwealth becoming more trouble than it's worth? Watch in full | youtube.com/watch?v=7qkQQDgB… | @michaelgove | @madz_grant