By Jonathan Isaby Last month the Government published its ambitious Welfare Reform Bill and I wrote about it at the time here. Yesterday the Bill had its Second Reading debate in the Commons and here is a flavour of the warm welcome it got from the Tory backbenches. Several MPs took the opportunity to expand […]
By Jonathan Isaby Last month Andrew Lansley wrote exclusively for ConHome here about the Government's Health and Social Care Bill. The Bill had its Second Reading in the Commons yesterday, during which new Oldham East and Saddleworth MP Debbie Abrahams gave her maiden speech and David Miliband gave his first full speech as a backbencher […]
Delivering his maiden speech on Wednesday, former soldier and journalist Richard Drax – who gained Dorset South from Labour – said that he had entered public life because he could no longer “sit on my hands and watch our beloved country lose her pride.” He explained that he is by no means the first Drax […]