Blunt’s victory is an emphatic win for the pro-Palestinian cause

Jesse Norman wins Culture, Julian Lewis Defence…and Meg Hillier is the new Chairman of the Public Accounts Committtee.

Battlegrounds Revisited 2) The South West

We continue our post-match inspection of our battleground profiles with the Liberal Democrat graveyard of the South West.

Neil Carmichael MP: School Governors and governance – time to step up delivery

Neil Carmichael is the Member of Parliament for Stroud and a member of the Education Select Committee. Follow Neil on Twitter…. Read more »

Neil Carmichael MP: The Coalition has rightly embraced Lord Heseltine’s industrial policy

Neil Carmichael is the Member of Parliament for Stroud and a member of the Education Select Committee. Follow Neil on Twitter…. Read more »

Neil Carmichael MP: Reporting back from Antarctica

Neil Carmichael is the Member of Parliament for Stroud and a member of the Education Select Committee. Follow Neil on… Read more »

Neil Carmichael MP: Is the asylum system meeting children’s needs?

Neil Carmichael is the Member of Parliament for Stroud and a member of the Education Select Committee. He is currently… Read more »

The 24 Conservative MPs who are still on the backbenches and have never rebelled

By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter. After last week's reshuffle of the Secretaries and Ministers of State, and this week's… Read more »

Neil Carmichael MP: It’s not enough to cut the deficit, we need to strengthen the ‘real’ economy too

Neil Carmichael is Member of Parliament for Stroud. Tackling the deficit, securing low interest rates and reducing taxation for business are… Read more »

Neil Carmichael MP: How to merge the Climate Change Department and improve government at the same time

Neil Carmichael is MP for Stroud. With talk of a reshuffle of the Coalition Government around every corner, it is… Read more »

Neil Carmichael MP: School governors must be well managed, or key education reforms may not achieve full potential

Neil Carmichael is the Member of Parliament for Stroud, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Education Governance and Leadership,… Read more »

What is the Cornerstone group? Matthew Barrett profiles the socially conservative Tory backbench group

By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter My series profiling the backbench groups of Tory MPs has so far mainly featured groups… Read more »

What is the 40 group? Matthew Barrett profiles the MPs trying to keep hold of the most marginal Tory seats

By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter I recently profiled the 2020 and Free Enterprise groups of Tory MPs. Those two groups are formed by ideology:… Read more »

Cameron today: Off the hook on the veto. On it over more IMF money.

By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter Last year, the Prime Minister flew to Brussels amidst rumour of a leadership challenge… Read more »

Neil Carmichael MP and Edward Wild: How to improve school governance

Neil Carmichael is MP for Stroud and a member of the Education Select Committee; Edward Wild is the Director of… Read more »

Robert Halfon and Neil Carmichael make the maiden speeches they have been waiting a decade to deliver

Of the new Conservative MPs elected at the general election, eight won their seats at the third time of asking,… Read more »