Alan Duncan on what the government has done to make the current crisis worse
Video and highlights from a speech by Alan Duncan during yesterday’s Opposition Day debate. Unemployment is too high after more… Read more »
George Osborne response to Alistair Darling statement
This is the full text of the response by Shadow Chancellor George Osborne to the Chancellor’s emergency statement to the… Read more »
Murdo Fraser MSP launches campaign to protect the red squirrel
Highlights from a speech by Murdo Fraser MSP, Deputy Scottish Tory leader, in his Members’ Debate on Action to Protect… Read more »
The EU answers Chris Heaton-Harris’ dead parrot question
We wondered if it was the best parliamentary question ever. Chris Heaton-Harris played Monty Python and asked: "Would the Commission… Read more »
Probably the best parliamentary question ever!
Chris Heaton-Harris MEP – soon, we hope, to be MP for Daventry – has put down this question to the… Read more »
Michael Gove condemns Ed Balls’ incompetence
Highlights of Michael Gove’s questioning of Ed Balls’ competence after the SATs fiasco. Incompetence, year after year: "Under the American… Read more »
The long, long recess begins with ministers ‘rushing out the trash’
PoliticsHome’s ‘100 survey’ finds that the vast majority of Westminster insiders think that the summer recess is way too long. … Read more »
Grieve attacks doubling of violent crime in ten years
On yesterday’s Platform, Mark Reckless called for a democratisation and localisation of policing ahead of the publication of the Government’s… Read more »
Mark Pritchard on Belarus’s forthcoming elections
Mark Pritchard MP leads a Westminster Hall debate on Belarus, where he visited recently and which has elections in September…. Read more »
Ann Widdecombe defends proper pay and reimbursement for MPs
Yesterday the Commons voted to limit annual spending on furnishings to £2,400 but Ann Widdecombe MP warned her colleagues against… Read more »
Andrew Mackay MP suggests that no prisoners should be released early unless they are free from drugs
The Conservative MP for Bracknell made the suggestion during Justice questions yesterday. Andrew Mackay MP: As one in five men… Read more »
Lord Strathclyde tells peers that they must “engage” with the Commons in its wish to have a largely elected Upper House
On yesterday’s ToryDiary we highlighted Shadow Justice Secretary Nick Herbert MP’s response to Labour proposals on Lords reform. Pasted below… Read more »
Why did Brown compare himself with a man “prone to domestic violence, kidnapping, possibly murder and digging up his dead lover”?
During ‘Business’ Questions yesterday Theresa May asked Leader of the House Harriet Harman about Gordon Brown’s magazine interview in which… Read more »
Neville-Jones attack Labour’s “reactionary” plans for 42 days’ detention
Baroness Neville-Jones spoke in yesterday’s Lords debate on the Government’s plans to introduce a period of 42 days’ pre-charge detention. … Read more »
Theresa Villiers MP says Government’s biofuels policy has caused deforestation and increased food prices
Theresa Villiers MP, Shadow Transport Secretary, responds to Labour’s review of its commitment to steadily increase the proportion of the… Read more »