More than half of the MPs representing Labour’s most marginal seats didn’t vote to hold an election
Fourteen of the 25 Labour MPs with the smallest majorities either voted against or didn’t vote at all.
Posts Tagged: Parliament
WATCH: Corbyn: “We welcome the opportunity of a general election”
The Labour leader delivers his pitch, but Mark Francois asks: “Is that it?”
WATCH: “Let the people decide” – May makes her case for a General Election
In the Commons, the Prime Minister challenges her opponents to lay out their plans for Brexit and the future of the country.
WATCH: Davis launches the “vital” Great Repeal Bill
“It will help to ensure certainty and stability across the board.”
WATCH: The Prime Minister’s Commons statement: “We can together make a success of this moment”
The Prime Minister presents the news that she has triggered Article 50 to MPs.
Live Blurrt tracker of PMQs sentiment
Watch how Twitter users are rating May and Corbyn’s performances.
A truly historic moment. Today we start the process of leaving the EU.
It’s a day to think of the people who dreamed of it and the people who dreaded it alike. And to embrace the renewal of our democracy.
Ed Barker: Don’t glamourise these killers by calling them terrorists. Treat them like the criminals they are.
People that stab policeman and run over innocent civilians are murderous thugs – and that’s the end of it.
Wednesday reminded people that Westminster is worth defending
The seat of our national politics is deeply unfashionable in constitutional circles, but is essential to a well-governed and united kingdom.
Garvan Walshe: McGuinness – a planner and executor, we should remember today, of attacks on our democracy
Every such criminal claims to have been “driven” to violence. Their excuses must not be indulged.
Police statement on Parliament attack: full text
At least one person dead; several injured. Commons in lockdown; Scottish Parliament eventually suspends sitting; Tobias Ellwood “battled to save life of stabbed officer”.
WATCH: Lidington’s statement to the Commons on the Westminster terror incident
The Leader of the House tells MPs that a police officer has been stabbed.
Live Blurrt tracker of PMQs sentiment
Watch how Twitter users are rating May and Corbyn’s performances.
James Frayne: Right or wrong, most people bitterly oppose MPs having “second jobs”
If politicians will create a big, interventionist state, then voters will expect them to manage it on a full-time basis.
WATCH: The Article 50 Bill gains Royal Assent
The Speaker informs the House of Commons that it has become law.