Have a crack at the newsquiz

The top solo scorer in last week’s newsquiz was Tim (still totally unremarkable) with 23, narrowly ahead of Janet Boyle on 22.5. George Mann scored 20 and Phil Lambell and Robert Rea both scored 19. The top team was Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe with 22, ahead of The Spectator team of John, Lara and William on 21, the Barnard Castle FOC of Trevor, Carole, Our Peter and Jackie on 20 and Danny and Thom at the snooker and Bill and Coo in Florida on 18. Here is this week’s newsquiz. As usual there are 25 questions about the week. Why not give it a go and let me know your score.

Robert Jenrick dominates today's front pages

1. Robert Jenrick was sacked from which shadow cabinet role?
2. In his speech at a Reform UK Press conference, criticising the Conservative Party, who did Robert Jenrick say 'created the migration system that enabled five million migrants to come here. The greatest failure of any British Government in the post-war period’?
3. Commenting on Robert Jenrick’s defection, Tory leader Kemi Badenoch said: 'I'm just glad that Nigel Farage is doing my __ __ for me.’ What are the two missing words? 
4. Which former Conservative Chancellor also defected to Reform UK?
5. Former Conservative minister Lord Offord was appointed to what role?
6. Downing Street announced it was backing down on its plan to introduce what, which had been announced by Prime Minister Kier Starmer in September?
7. The Government paid 'substantial' compensation to Palestinian Abu Zubaydah who has been detained where for almost 20 years?
8. Education secretary Bridget Phillipson warned that toddlers, who spend five hours a day looking at screens, had their ability to do what damaged?
9. Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood told MPs she has no confidence in West Midlands Chief Constable Craig Guildford following a 'damning' report into what?
10. The Armed Forces Bill is to raise the maximum age at which veterans can be recalled from 55 to what age?
11. What reason did Lord Mandelson give for being 'kept separate' from the sexual side of Jeffrey Epstein’s life?
12. US President Donald Trump announced 'immediate' tariffs of what per cent on countries doing business with Iran?
13. Venezuela's opposition leader Maria Corina Machado said she had presented Donald Trump with what in 'recognition for his unique commitment with our freedom’?
14. An employment tribunal found that the nurses from Darlington suffered harassment when the NHS trust allowed what to happen, resulting in 'a hostile, intimidating, humiliating and degrading environment’?
15. A van driver was jailed for 13 years and six months for hitting and killing mother-of-three Suzanne Cherry, 63, while she was doing what in Staffordshire?
16. Three teenagers and a man in his 50s were killed in a head-on collision between a car and a taxi in which town?
17. Former Premier League footballer Shay Given apologised for describing sacked Celtic manager Wilfried Nancy's time as an 'absolute __’. What is the missing word?
18. Two women accused which singer of sexually assaulting them while they were working for him at his properties in the Dominican Republic and the Bahamas?
19. Why did astronauts from the International Space Station return to Earth a month earlier than planned?
20. An American company is asking for a £750,000 deposit for a five-night stay in a hotel which it plans to open where in 2032?
21. Who announced he was to leave BBC Radio 4's Today programme, saying he intended to launch his own company?
22. Sasha Nash became the first woman to lead which team in its history?
23. Which non-league team were credited with pulling off FA Cup’s greatest shock by knocking out the trophy holders?
24. What sporting event will return to Britain next year, for the first time since 2014?
25. Adolescence star Owen Cooper became the youngest person to receive an award at the Golden Globes. How old is he?

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