Boris Johnson was compared to Monty Python’s black knight and branded a “lame duck” in the Commons following a confidence vote in his leadership where 148 Conservative MPs rebelled against him. SNP ...

Ed Balls was today likened to Monty Python’s Black Knight for refusing to admit defeat on the economy. Chancellor George Osborne mocked his Labour opponent for repeating claiming the government’s ...

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Mark Rutte said he is angry with Tory and Labour MPs who refuse to back the Brexit deal THERESA May is like the knight in Monty Python who has all his limbs cut off but refuses to admit defeat, the ...

Boris Johnson was compared to the Black Knight from Monty Python claiming his mortal injuries were just flesh wounds. The Prime Minister was mocked by SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford during a ...

They say the best comedy stands the test of time – and that's certainly the case for Monty Python's 'tis but a scratch' Black Knight sketch. British Library curators found a drawing in a 15th century ...

Unseen files released by the British Board of Film Classification reveal how it considering banning Monty Python ’s famous Black Knight scene for being too gory. The scene shows the black knight - ...

Theresa May faces a new humiliation after the Prime Minister of the Netherlands compared her to a useless comedy knight. The PM was mocked by Dutch leader Mark Rutte over her refusal to give up trying ...

Commons Leader Penny Mordaunt has likened her SNP adversary to the repeatedly defeated Black Knight from Monty Python. Over the parliamentary session Ms Mordaunt and her SNP counterpart Deidre Brock ...

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Ian Blackford, the SNP's Westminster leader, likened the Prime Minister's reaction to surviving the confidence vote to the comedy troupe's knight in the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail, who ...