“I think every single one of us as an MP could give you a list of death threats and threats of attack that we receive on pretty much a weekly basis.”
These proposed powers will apply not only to benefit claimants, but to others who are “linked” to them: the term remains vaguely defined.
The State Opening of Parliament went off immaculately, but the debate which followed sounded staged too.
The voters of Mid Bedfordshire may not have the power to precipitate a by-election, but her parliamentary colleagues do. If they don’t, will their outrage at her conduct ring hollow?
In Wales and London, socialist politicians have begun to see the consequences of squeezing the private rented sector.
The committee’s report was thorough, but the sentence is disproportionate.
The Chair of the Standards committee says the whole system of investigating the behaviour of MPs needs to be reformed.
The row over the investigation into the former Prime Minister is, in almost every respect, a political one.
Tory MPs felt no great urge to leap to the PM’s defence, but also showed no desire to defenestrate him, and instead drifted off to lunch.
As long as this former priest and aspirant actor can find some high moral reason for doing so, he loves to make trouble.
Why did so many senior Conservatives invest so much political capital in a scheme dependent on Starmer’s goodwill?
By not offering voters a retail package of reform, he has left himself with little political cover and limited escape options.
Many MPs feel deeply unhappy about how the Paterson case has been handled by the Commissioner.