Select Committee Chairmen who are paid by the taxpayer shouldn’t receive money from private interests that can reasonably seen to conflict with that role.
Lichfield MP appears wearing a moustache wig.
Elections are won in the centre – and the centre has moved rightwards.
One of the nicest people in politics prepares to leave Parliament.
Conservatives are united in favour of giving the people a say – but this result will boost UKIP.
Robert Buckland has replaced Eleanor Laing as Chairman of the the Home Affairs Committee. There could be fresh elections for all Chairman posts.
Jo’s, that is – not Boris’s. The Head of the Policy Unit will have a big hand in the plan for the 2015 election to be confirmed today.
An NHS crisis. Romanians and Bulgarians. Farage on tour. UKIP top the Euro polls. And then…aaarrrgggh…AAARRGGH!
“The Liberal Democrats have shown they do not believe in press freedom. We Conservatives are the party of freedom.”
In 2001 or so, I wrote a speech for Iain Duncan Smith that went well enough, and was drafted on the back of it into his team for Prime Minister's Questions prep. The other three members were David Cameron, George Osborne and Boris Johnson (and I should say in passing that those first two were […]
By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter. I sent out yesterday the following series of tweets on Syria, which re-iterated the case against intervention. Here they are: A dictatorship bent on using chemical weapons against its own people is unlikely to be deterred by a single series of strikes. If as is likely Assad continues to […]
By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter. I asked yesterday whether David Cameron or the Whips bore the main responsibility for this week's party management disaster over Syria. A day later, the answer is evident. Downing Street presumed, not unreasonably, that Ed Miliband would deliver a Labour abstention on the vote. The Whips – also not […]
The people deserve a say on our membership of the EU – and Conservative MPs are helping to deliver one.