For all that Downing Street sources dismissed Douglas Ross as ‘Mr Nobody’, the Prime Minister has decided to replace him with two people.
Now some of these MPs may have been ill, or absent, or abroad. But how many were slipped with the connivance of the system?
The Prime Minister completes the mini-reshuffle she started last week. Will she now give the new appointees a chance to grow into the role?
There’s one undeniable trend among those promoted: they backed the winning candidate.
Recent ConservativeHome authors James Wharton and Guto Bebb are present. Both expressed concern about the consequences for their areas of the offer to Scotland.
The voluntary pledge to remove a billion of units of alcohol from the UK market would reduce consumption by nearly double the benefit of MUP
Iain Stewart is Member of Parliament for Milton Keynes South. Follow Iain on Twitter. I have considerable reservations about the efficacy of a minimum unit price for alcohol (MUP). I am concerned that it will penalise responsible drinkers but not tackle the problems of binge drinking. I was therefore interested to see the edition of the […]
Iain Stewart is the Member of Parliament for Milton Keynes South. Formerly a head-hunter, Iain was head of research for the Scottish Conservatives in the 1990s and co-authored “It’s Our Money, Who Spends It?” about the Barnett Formula and fiscal autonomy for Scotland. And so the Barnett Formula once again steps into the political spotlight; this […]
By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter Yesterday, a Private Member's Bill by Rebecca Harris, the Member for Castle Point, which sought to move British clocks forward by an hour all year round, was brought before the House. The Government was supportive of the Bill, and there was a strong turnout with wide cross-party support for […]
By Jonathan Isaby The new MP for Wycombe, Steve Baker, secured a one-and-a-half hour adjournment debate in Westminster Hall yesterday on a topic which is of particular interest to his constituents, namely the High Speed 2 Rail link which looks set to run through Buckinghamshire, and set out his opposition to the scheme thus: "The […]
Iain Stewart stood for Parliament in Milton Keynes in both 2001 and 2005 before being successfully elected at his third attempt at this year's general election in the slightly-redrawn Milton Keynes South constituency. In his maiden speech yesterday, apart from revealing that he was baptised by Gordon Brown's father, he took the opportunity during a […]
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