Edward Leigh fails to persuade MPs that adult stem cell research should be preferred to embryonic research
Edward Leigh MP says that there is a better, ethically uncomplicated way of tackling disease: "Adult stem cell research has… Read more »
Paul Goodman MP speaks for the Conservatives in Anti-Semitism debate
Highlights of Paul Goodman’s contribution: Anti-Semitism has a particular horror for Europeans: "All forms of hatred against people on the… Read more »
Philip Hammond MP: Increases in Vehicle Excise Duty are a “ticking time bomb” under Labour MPs
In the Commons yesterday Philip Hammond, Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury proposed this motion: "That this House notes with… Read more »
David Cameron’s Commons response to Gordon Brown’s statement on draft Queen’s Speech
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David Cameron initiates Westminster Hall debate on flooding
Highlights from a contribution made by David Cameron to a debate in Westminster Hall on flooding in West Oxfordshire. The… Read more »
The Wintertons challenge the “discourtesy and insensitivity” of moving by-election writ before Gwyneth Dunwoody’s funeral
Sir Nicholas Winterton MP: "As the longest-serving Member in the county of Cheshire, and a close friend of the late… Read more »
Government delays releasing figures on early-release prisoners… nothing to do with tomorrow’s election
This morning Nick Herbert MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Justice, made a point of order about the Government’s suspicious… Read more »
John Redwood urges UK to follow Irish model of lower corporate taxation
John Redwood MP: "I am a company director and a shareholder in companies, as I have declared in the register,… Read more »
Highlights from Ed Vaizey’s remarks about obesity in Britain
Last Friday Conservative MPs talked out a bill from Labour’s Nigel Griffiths that sought to ban the advertising of junk… Read more »
David Ruffley on crime in London
Shadow Minister for Home Affairs David Ruffley looks at the level of crime in London and calls for more local… Read more »
Andrew Lansley calls for reform in family doctor services
Shadow Secretary of State for Health Andrew Lansley sets out his position on GPs in this opposition day debate: Motion:… Read more »
Gerald Howarth urges deportation of “undesirable alien”, Mohamed Al Fayed
Gerald Howarth MP: The Minister may know that the former Home Secretary’s decision to refuse citizenship to Mr. Mohamed Fayed… Read more »
Philip Hammond reminds Labour of its promises on tax
Philip Hammond MP: "In case anyone has forgotten, Labour’s 1997 election manifesto—that unfulfilled promissory note—promised, among many things, that Labour… Read more »
David Davis quizzes Jacqui Smith on the use of Chinese security guards on London’s streets
David Davis: After the aggressive behaviour of the blue-tracksuited Chinese officials guarding the Olympic torch relay through London, I wrote… Read more »
Mark Harper suggests Parliamentary sessions for questioning Opposition MPs…
… so that Ministers can use their own question times for actually answering the questions put to them about their… Read more »