The DUP also voted with the Opposition. The earlier Government amendment to the motion fell by four votes.
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.
Escape from the EU’s free trade rules gives us the opportunity to introduce a wide range of new welfare measures.
The current procedures are unsustainable, unbalanced and undemocratic.
Twenty five Tory MPs joined Labour and the SNP in opposing liberalisation, and provided the Government’s margin of defeat.
We’re bloody-minded, independent and stubborn at our best – it should perhaps be no surprise that we can be difficult to manage.
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.
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.
More than eight out of ten people in North Northamptonshire want to quit the EU.
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.
While the reshuffle dominated talk in the village, the Data Retention and Investigatory Bill was hurtling through the Commons.
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.