Theresa May blames tax credit penalty on couples for child poverty
Yesterday the House of Commons had Work and Pensions questions. Ribble Valley MP Nigel Evans asked what can be done… Read more »
Syed Kamall fears American protectionism
Syed Kamall, who speaks for the Conservatives on international trade in the European Parliament, has voiced his concerns over the… Read more »
Culture Department has lost several works of art
Francis Maude, Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office and Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, was recently informed in… Read more »
House of Lords round-up
There were some noteworthy questions in the House of Lords yesterday. If Lord Tebbit gets the memos from modernisers at… Read more »
Paul Goodman worried by anti-Semitic attacks
Paul Goodman, Shadow Minister for Communities and Local Government, yesterday addressed the issue of Holocaust Memorial Day, which was on… Read more »
David Lammy is fabulously bad at departmental oral questions
Questions were put yesterday to ministers from the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills. Shadow Secretary of State David Willetts… Read more »
MP of the day – John Hayes for standing up to anti-Semitism
The estimable John Hayes (Shadow Minister for Lifelong Learning, Further and Higher Education) spoke yesterday to a lobby group from… Read more »
Theresa Villiers speaks out against third Heathrow runway again
Shadow Transport Secretary Theresa Villers has come in for quite a bit of stick for her position on aviation, including… Read more »
Cheryl Gillan wants more done about job losses in Wales
It was time for Welsh questions in the Commons yesterday. Monmouth MP David Davies was concerned about onerous rules on… Read more »
Ken Clarke tears into the Government on automotive loan package
We were promised that he is still a formidable operator, and yesterday Ken Clarke showed his mettle at the despatch… Read more »
Maria Miller calls on the Government to reduce the gender pay gap
Conservative MPs posed questions on women and equality yesterday. Maria Miller, Shadow Minister for the Family, asked about pay equality:… Read more »
Geoff Hoon ludicrously blames Theresa Villers for Railtrack
The House of Commons hosted Transport questions yesterday. Secretary of State for Transport, Geoff Hoon, made a quite absurd remark… Read more »
Theresa May promises to hound James Purnell on welfare reform
Theresa May, now Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, spoke today on the second reading of the Welfare… Read more »
Baroness Byford tackles Government on hill farm payment fiasco
Yesterday Baroness Byford, a Shadow DEFRA minister who has considerable experience in the field of agriculture*, asked about the overpayment… Read more »
Government can’t say how much “Big Brother” database will cost
The Interception Modernisation Programme is a plan for a database (condemned by critics as a "Big Brother" database) of every… Read more »