Lorraine Platt: Brexit must mean more regulations on animal farming, not less

Escape from the EU’s free trade rules gives us the opportunity to introduce a wide range of new welfare measures.

Why is Hammond never available to take difficult Commons statements on Europe?

There were 26 critical questions from Conservative backbenchers on the Government’s EU referendum leaflet yesterday and 5 supportive ones.

70 Tory MPs vote to repeal the Human Rights Act

By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter. Yesterday in Parliament, Richard Bacon, a Conservative backbencher, tried to introduce a Bill which would… Read more »

The 118 Tory MPs the Daily Mail lists as being opposed to gay marriage

By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter. The Daily Mail this morning reports on the 118 Conservative MPs who have written to… Read more »

34 Conservative MPs write to Andrew Lansley to express “serious concerns” about plain tobacco packaging

By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter. On Friday, 50 MPs, including 34 Conservatives, wrote a letter to the Health Secretary,… Read more »

The 2010-12 parliamentary session was the most rebellious on record

By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter Philip Cowley and Mark Stuart of the University of Nottingham have released a new pamplet… Read more »

What is the 40 group? Matthew Barrett profiles the MPs trying to keep hold of the most marginal Tory seats

By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter I recently profiled the 2020 and Free Enterprise groups of Tory MPs. Those two groups are formed by ideology:… Read more »

Tory MPs queue up to protest Cable’s decision to ignore Select Cttee and appoint Les Ebdon to university access post

By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter Some extracts from yesterday in Parliament are pasted below. The exchanges occured after Business Secretary… Read more »

Cameron today: Off the hook on the veto. On it over more IMF money.

By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter Last year, the Prime Minister flew to Brussels amidst rumour of a leadership challenge… Read more »

Tory MPs raise their grievances, hopes and caution with Justine Greening over HS2

By Joseph Willits Follow Joseph on Twitter After Justine Greening's announcement giving the go-ahead for a high speed rail network, High Speed… Read more »

Government EU budget motion passes without rebellion

By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter. There are conflicting views at present about where Conservative Euro-revolts go next.  One is… Read more »

Tory MPs welcome Danny Alexander’s public sector pensions statement to the Commons

By Joseph Willits Follow Joseph on Twitter In a statement to the Commons yesterday, immediately after PMQs, Chief Secretary to the Treasury,… Read more »

Tory MPs go to Bangladesh as part of the party’s social action project, Project Maja

By Joseph Willits Follow Joseph on Twitter    40 Tory volunteers, including MPs Tobias Ellwood, Nicky Morgan, Eric Ollerenshaw, Andrew Stephenson (pictured), Anne Main… Read more »

Charles Walker and Anne Main highlight the burden of green taxes and carbon charging during Chris Huhne energy statement

By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Chris Huhne, announced his Electricity Market… Read more »

29 32 Tory MPs rebel against Britain’s £9.3 billion EXTRA contribution to IMF bailouts

By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter.  Last night at least 32 Tory MPs (listed below) voted with Labour against an… 12 July 2011 | 110 comments