Chris White: Why it’s time radically to reform the Private Members’ Bill system

In the wake of the row over an anti-upskirting bill and Chris Chope’s objection, we re-run the author’s 2016 piece calling on the Government to act.

Who is to blame for the financial crisis in Northamptonshire?

The County’s seven Conservative MPs are clear that the problems are “self inflicted” due to financial mismanagement. They need to encourage new people to become councillors.

Lorraine Platt: Brexit must mean more regulations on animal farming, not less

Escape from the EU’s free trade rules gives us the opportunity to introduce a wide range of new welfare measures.

Chris White: Why it’s time radically to reform the Private Members’ Bill system

The current procedures are unsustainable, unbalanced and undemocratic.

The Conservative MPs who rebelled on Sunday Trading

Twenty five Tory MPs joined Labour and the SNP in opposing liberalisation, and provided the Government’s margin of defeat.

Re-unite the right? Uniting Eurosceptics against the EU is hard enough

We’re bloody-minded, independent and stubborn at our best – it should perhaps be no surprise that we can be difficult to manage.

Nine consequences of yesterday’s Commons vote

The decision represented a decisive endorsement of a particular plan – not a return to Tony Blair-style liberal internationalism.

The list of the seven Conservative MPs who voted against air strikes on ISIS in Syria

The number was expected to be higher, but in the end the rebellion was smaller than anticipated.

20 Conservative MPs revolt over tax credits. Five of them are 2015 intake members.

The number of rebels has risen; it is concentrated among post-2005 intake Tories, and in seats that are either marginal or were until recently.

Election sketch: Northamptonshire Conservatives (including Mrs Bone) hope to persuade voters that UKIP is redundant

Peter Bone in Wellingborough, and Tom Pursglove in Corby, are campaigning on a staunchly Eurosceptic platform. Mrs Bone approves, but rather wishes it was all over.

Tom Pursglove: The biggest vote on Europe in 40 years delivers a huge majority for leaving

More than eight out of ten people in North Northamptonshire want to quit the EU.

Davies and Hollobone should be reinstated as special constables

The Chief Constable of the British Transport Police has erred in deciding that these MPs cannot continue to serve in his force in a part-time role.

Iain Dale: My starring role next week – as Valerie Trierweiler’s bouncer

Plus: A masturbatory act of self-indulgence on a grand scale. And: The backbone of a goldfish and the principles of a harridan.

The 15 Conservative MPs who voted against the Government on the main DRIP amendment

While the reshuffle dominated talk in the village, the Data Retention and Investigatory Bill was hurtling through the Commons.

Stephen Tall: Why didn’t Cameron choose minority government over coalition?

He could have then called, and won, a second General Election. So why did he strike a deal with the Lib Dems?