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Posts Tagged: Simon Burns MP

From Reggie to Dessie: It’s Mike Penning as Father Christmas – and carols led by Dr Coffey on a karaoke machine

Plus: Boris’s party is raided by the Vice and Drugs Squads. The Home Secretary says it was “a police operational decision”

By Reggie | 16 December 2015 | 3 comments

Knighthood for Simon Burns included in The Queen’s Birthday Honours

Cllr Peter Golds is honoured with a CBE.

By Harry Phibbs | 13 June 2015 | 22 comments

Andrew Gimson’s Commons Sketch: Good humour reigns on the Tory benches

But there were the first signs of animosity between Labour and the SNP.

By Andrew Gimson | 27 May 2015 | 12 comments

From Reggie to Dessie: Let’s raise a glass to the real architect of our victory – Nicola Sturgeon

So we are back at the Palace of Varieties with far more MPs than expected – and relatively few casualties.

By Reggie | 13 May 2015 | 8 comments

From Reggie to Dessie: My encounter with the Conservative Ministerial Women’s Breakfast Club

The next day, I went to deliver leaflets in Rochester. We kept being delayed by Simon Burns insisting on showing passing punters his Hillary Clinton watch.

By Reggie | 29 October 2014

Profile: John Bercow, one of the best Speakers of modern times, but also by far the rudest

The case for Bercow as a great reformer tends to be obscured by his astonishingly bad manners.

By Andrew Gimson | 4 September 2014 | 23 comments

Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: hostilities suspended as Cameron and Miliband unite in the face of terrorism

Only the points of order raised against John Bercow by three Tory MPs struck a partisan note.

By Andrew Gimson | 3 September 2014 | 27 comments

Iain Dale’s Friday Diary: Ed Miliband should apologise to Andrew Mitchell

Also: Meeting Princess Michael. My old friend Simon Burns. Alastair Campbell, my stand-in. And: off to Dubrovnik and “the odd Ann Widdecombe pussy joke”.

By Iain Dale | 18 October 2013 | 131 comments

WATCH: Eleanor Laing and Simon Burns make their pitches to be Deputy Speaker

An awkward question for Burns – which MP called John Bercow a “stupid, sanctimonious dwarf”?

14 October 2013 | 7 comments

Streeter shines at ’22 Deputy Speaker hustings

He seems to have been the most impressive performer – “very professional”, said one source. “Surprised on the upside” said another.

By Paul Goodman | 9 October 2013 | 9 comments

Laing favourite for Deputy Speaker as hustings loom today

She’s keen to stress that she isn’t Cameron’s candidate. And there may be an element of women-voting-for-women on the Labour side.

By Paul Goodman | 9 October 2013 | 10 comments

What might the reshuffle look like?

Watch out for Sajid Javid, Esther McVey, Liz Truss, Nicky Morgan and Karen Bradley.

By Paul Goodman | 5 October 2013 | 37 comments

WATCH: Simon Burns resigns to stand as Deputy Speaker. Here’s his view of his possible future boss

No Minister serves forever, and I suspect that Burns will have gazed ahead to the coming reshuffle and looked sideways at the Deputy Speaker post.

By Paul Goodman | 4 October 2013 | 9 comments

Jim McAuslan: Ministers should ally with trade unions like mine to battle shoddy EU rules

Conservatives can find supporters in the trade union movement – why won’t they listen to them?

By Jim McAuslan | 28 September 2013 | 19 comments

Simon Burns MP on today’s HS2 judgement: “We have had a convincing green-light to press ahead”

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