Committed efforts to bring full equality to the House of Commons are not reflected in the House of Lords
The Seanad in Dublin comprises people chosen by county councillors, the government, and graduates of certain universities. This week, it celebrated its centenary.
The peer and parliamentary expert discussed the Upper Chamber’s future with the former Tory leadership candidate.
Labour cannot dismantle the British nation as a political community and expect it to long endure as a taxpaying one.
The Prime Minister must make up his mind whether or not to see through a policy to stop the small boats – now an issue of profound symbolic importance.
Only prime ministers who have served a full term – be that four years or one parliament – should be entitled to make such nominations.
He shamelessly amplified the slanders of a dangerous fantasist and deserves no political afterlife. Starmer should know better.
Making Dacre a peer would do more to get the Lords in touch with ordinary people than any reform scheme proposed by the usual suspects.
It has real democratic authority including with the Lords which might not be so inhibited from voting down new measures which didn’t feature in that manifesto.
The Government now intends to remove the first 18 clauses of its own legislation and present the Commons with new ones in the autumn.
It marks a shift from his original vision, which placed a much greater emphasis on individual schools having the freedom to do their own thing.
“The Treasury Finance Ministry view of the world isn’t about structural reform to increase the productive capacity of the economy.”
Last week’s confidence vote leaves the Government right about the Protocol’s operability but less capable of acting to improve it.
The authors reply to William Atkinson – who suggested a week ago on this site that it should not.
Later today, I will be presenting the Public Office (Child Sexual Abuse) Bill to close this abhorrent loophole and bar anyone who facilitated, enabled, or turned a blind eye to child sexual abuse from holding any public office, position of authority, or job paid by taxpayer funds.