As most readers know, the Select Committee Chairmanships have been carved out among the parties, and tomorrow's elections for the posts will be cross-party. So Conservative MPs, for example, can vote for Labour candidates, and vice-versa. Jonathan has a list of those standing here. A question follows: on what basis will Labour MPs vote for […]
Joint endorsements from Tim Montgomerie of ConservativeHome and Will Straw of LeftFootForward. "Who will Chair the House of Commons Select Committees that hold ministers and their departments to account? For the first time ever the Whips won’t decide. Those wanting to chair the 23 committees are having to stand for election. They will only win […]
Last week it emerged that Conservative MPs will chair twelve of Parliament's select committees, with those influential chairmanships being decided by ballots of all MPs from across the Commons next week. This morning's Times reports on the battle to chair one of the most important committees, the Treasury Select Committee. We are apparently set to […]
We asked a few friends of ConservativeHome to offer 100 word thoughts on how George Osborne might prepare to lift Britain’s economy. Our contributors didn’t all keep to the word limit but their responses cover a wide range of economic policy angles. Nicholas Boys-Smith, Consultant Director of Reform: "George Osborne is the most successful Conservative […]
Michael Fallon is MP for Sevenoaks and a member of the Treasury Select Committee. A few years back the then governor of the Bank of England coined a metaphor. The City of London, he said, was like Wimbledon: we might not have the best players but we had the best tournament. Ownership wasn’t the issue; […]
The Telegraph’s Jonathan Isaby notes how the government were defeated in this vote on Friday because they wrongly calculated that the vote would be inquorate if they didn’t actively vote against it. Michael Fallon MP: "I beg to move, that the Bill be now read a Second time. I am grateful for the wide support […]
Having recently topped the Private Members’ Bill ballot Michael Fallon MP has decided to use his slot to encourage renewable energy at a local level: "I want to see councils leading the fight against climate change. This Bill enables them to reach beyond the minimum standards set by government. It encourages localism." His Planning and […]
Michael Fallon is MP for Sevenoaks. Architects can not escape their buildings. The two crises engulfing the government at the moment have their origins in the decisions that Ministers themselves took. HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and the Financial Services Authority (FSA) are the monsters that Brown created. They’re two of the largest public departments, […]
Sevenoaks Tory MP Michael Fallon has the best hope of introducing backbench legislation after finishing top of the Private Members’ Bill ballot. Julian Brazier was the next best-placed Conservative and then Stephen Crabb. Via ePolitix.com, here is the full list: Full ballot results: Michael Fallon (Con, Sevenoaks) Sharon Hodgson (Lab, Gateshead East and Washington West) […]
Michael Fallon MP is Deputy Chairman of the Treasury Select Committee. They said they were sorry, deeply sorry. One by one, each of the four disgraced bank chiefs apologised in front of the Treasury Select Committee. But as the session went on, those apologies started to fade. It was all down to the “turn of […]