While the reshuffle dominated talk in the village, the Data Retention and Investigatory Bill was hurtling through the Commons.
All the posts were elected unopposed – another sign of Tory MPs’ growing discipline.
By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter. Guido Fawkes has a list of new Conservative members of Select Committees, from Graham Brady's office. Mr Brady explains: "For the following committees I have received the same number of nominations as there are vacancies, the following are therefore elected". The appointments are: Communities and Local Government John Stevenson […]
By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter As reported last week, this Parliament has seen more rebellions than during the Major years, and in fact, the 2010 intake has been the most rebellious since at least 1945. The last Parliamentary year has seen Conservative rebellions on issues such as European bailouts, recognising marriage in the tax system, or […]
By Jonathan Isaby Both divisions tonight – on increasing the upper tuition fees limit to £9,000 and on raising the cap on basic tuition fees to £6,000 – saw identical results: 323 votes in favour and 302 votes against. Factoring in two tellers from each side, you had 325 MPs backing the Government line and […]
Here is the latest in our series of Twenty Questions with members of the Class of 2010… Jason McCartney was elected MP for Colne Valley with a majority of 4,837. 1. What is your earliest political memory? My Dad being happy that the armed forces were going to get a long overdue pay rise when […]
In a maiden speech delivered yesterday, Caroline Nokes, who won Romsey and Southampton North, addressed the subject of building a high-skills economy, which was the topic of yesterday's debate on the Commons: “Even in an area where we are fortunate to have good schools, an excellent university and companies like Ford committed to Britain’s manufacturing […]