Our interviewee on “very clear-sighted Home Secretary” and why he was right to end virtual Parliament. Plus: What does he think about illegal raves?
“What’s happening this week, which makes me so angry, is I’m now allowed to vote but I can’t take part in debates.”
Rees-Mogg is right to defend the traditions of the House, but with a majority and years until an election there is no need to rush things.
He tells us about his views on Hong Kong, and how he balances his “absolute” loyalty to both the church and Government over re-openings for worship.
The Treasury has been welded at the top to Number Ten. Now there’s a push to do more of the same to the Office.
Plus: Don’t force MPs who are sick or shielding back to Parliament, Jacob. And: let’s divert aid money to seek a vaccine.
But “I don’t think that’s a great fault”. Also: our interviewee on why “Sir Keir, the nervous knight” and the Opposition “like having a hybrid parliament”.
The author takes issue with Jacob Rees-Mogg and Andrew Gimson – and say that MP should work from home if they can like everyone else.
Rees-Mogg is right: we cannot tell children to go back to school if parliamentarians continue to play truant.
Ministers’ efforts to get schools and businesses to re-open won’t be helped if MPs are visibly unwilling to return to Westminster.
Our interviewee on why Starmer “has made the Labour Party once again a moderate, centre-Left party.” Plus: does he think the UK should follow Sweden?
Four members from the 2019 intake make the top 50, beating longer-serving and higher-ranked colleagues.