Timothy Kirkhope calls on Gordon Brown to back the scrapping of the Strasbourg chamber
Timothy Kirkhope, who leads the Conservatives in the European Parliament, has written to Gordon Brown in advance of the Prime… Read more »
European Parliamentarians told to use “gender-neutral language”
Here's something you'll like. The European Parliament (which I visited with my colleage Jonathan Isaby this week; more later) has… Read more »
Quick to announce, slow to deliver
The main point of George Osborne's speech on the economy today was to highlight the Government's failure to deliver on… Read more »
Recorded thefts from the Parliamentary Estate in 2008
Nick Harvey MP's question has revealed the following list of thefts inside the Houses of Parliament during 2008: More at… Read more »
Backbench Tories fail to stop UK Youth Parliament from being able to use House of Commons chamber
Christopher Chope MP was unsuccessful yesterday in his bid to block the UK Youth Parliament from ending centuries of exclusive… Read more »
Daniel Hannan – every child in UK born with £30,000 debt
South East England MEP Daniel Hannan had made another speech, this time on the financial crisis, and invoked the Bard…. Read more »
Mental health of the armed forces another strike against localism
Dr Andrew Murrison is MP for Westbury, a Shadow Defence Minister and a former Surgeon Commander in the Royal Navy…. Read more »
Stephen O’Brien opposes presumed consent for organ donation
Shadow Health Minister Stephen O’Brien spoke on Friday on a Bill from Lib Dem MP Jeremy Browne to bring in… Read more »
Jonathan Djanogly opposes plan to link statutory redundancy pay to average earnings
On Friday Labour MP Lindsay Hoyle’s Statutory Redundancy Pay (Amendment) Bill had its second reading. It calls on the Government… Read more »
Should male MPs have to wear ties in the Commons?
We recently featured a tieless Dan Hannan in action in the European Parliament but his open neck casual look would… Read more »
David Willetts calls funding of further education an “unfolding disaster”
The Department for Innovation, Skills and Universities was up for questions yesterday. Shadow Secretary of State David Willetts asked about… Read more »
Charles Tannock says UN should force Sudanese President into exile or bring down full force of law
Charles Tannock, the Conservatives’ foreign affairs spokesman in the European Parliament, has called on the UN Security Council to issue… Read more »
Daniel Hannan calls for justice for all
Yesterday South East England MEP Daniel Hannan addressed the Strasbourg Parliament on the subject of justice. Here is his typically… Read more »
Michael Gove says case details of child deaths should be published in full
Shadow Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families Michael Gove spoke this afternoon on the progress report from Lord… Read more »
What has the Government got to hide on anti-extremism project?
I reported yesterday that Shadow Communities Minister Paul Goodman was being stonewalled over the details of funding for the "violent… Read more »