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Posts Tagged: Huw Merriman MP

The two Conservative rebellions yesterday: 32 votes on self-isolation, 19 on face masks.

Fifty-three Conservatives opposed the tiering plan last December, the largest Covid-related rebellion to date.

1 December 2021

Huw Merriman and Simon Clarke: We will restore British aid spending, but must balance the books first

We owe it to the young people of this country, who have sacrificed so much, not to saddle their country with debt which they will then have to repay.

By Huw Merriman MP and Simon Clarke MP | 13 July 2021

Johnson is pressed in the Commons by Tory MPs about an end to shutdown by Christmas

Fox floated a new Parliamentary committee to “determine that decisions across all parts of Government have been taken on the best available evidence”.

By Paul Goodman | 3 November 2020 | 9 comments

The forty-two Conservative MPs who voted against the Government on the 10pm curfew

That’s the biggest Tory revolt so far on a virus-related division, and enough potentially to defeat the Government in future.

By Paul Goodman | 14 October 2020 | 49 comments

The twelve Conservative MPs who voted yesterday evening against the rule of six

These are early shots in the developing Tory backbench campaign against the restrictions, which are set to gain volume and velocity.

By Paul Goodman | 7 October 2020 | 34 comments

Rob Sutton: Introducing the top 50 Conservative MPs on Twitter

Four members from the 2019 intake make the top 50, beating longer-serving and higher-ranked colleagues.

By Dr Rob Sutton | 29 June 2020 | 11 comments

On the 14-day quarantine, the Government has got it right

The priority must be to get rid of the virus – anything to jeopardise that could push travel even further way.

By Charlotte Gill | 2 June 2020 | 40 comments

Andrew Gimson’s Commons sketch: The Prime Minister did not stoop and could not conquer

He would not conciliate the Liaison Committee by promising to meet it three times a year, let alone by holding an inquiry into Cummings.

By Andrew Gimson | 28 May 2020 | 220 comments

Select Committee chairmanships announced

Ellwood to chair the Defence Committee. Tugendhat to chair Foreign Affairs. Hunt to chair Health and Social Care.

By Harry Phibbs | 29 January 2020 | 9 comments

Andrew Gimson’s Commons sketch: Disraeli Johnson inflicts deep pain on serious-minded people

But there is method in his madness.

By Andrew Gimson | 3 September 2019 | 94 comments

Iain Dale: Why I believe that the October deadline leaves no time for a second referendum

Plus: I’m still backing Brexit. The Independent Group’s Tory targets. And: it’s a disgrace that public money is being spent on the European elections.

By Iain Dale | 12 April 2019 | 58 comments

WATCH: Merriman backs a second referendum – “If I get fired, so be it”

Addressing a pro-EU rally, the aide to the Chancellor says he did not come into politics to do things which he believes are wrong.

9 April 2019 | 124 comments

The 66 Tories who voted against ‘Malthouse Two”

Several Ministers helped to see off the Government’s best hope of avoiding a full-on crisis in the Party – and perhaps of saving Brexit too.

By Henry Hill | 14 March 2019 | 33 comments

Yesterday in the Commons. More opponents than supporters of the Prime Minister’s deal on the Conservative backbenchers.

That said, there was more backing for her from her party than some of today’s headlines suggest.

By Paul Goodman | 23 November 2018 | 76 comments

Parliamentary Private Secretaries: full list

Seema Kennedy becomes the Prime Minister’s second PPS. Brexiteer Kwasi Kwarteng is PPS to Philip Hammond. And much, much more.

28 June 2017 | 10 comments

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