By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter. Guido Fawkes has a list of new Conservative members of Select Committees, from Graham Brady's office. Mr Brady explains: "For the following committees I have received the same number of nominations as there are vacancies, the following are therefore elected". The appointments are: Communities and Local Government John Stevenson […]
By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter. Robert Halfon, the Member of Parliament for Harlow, and one of the most successful campaigning MPs in Parliament, has organised a motion, backed by 60 MPs from all parties, and including 41 Tories, calling for the Office of Fair Trading to investigate allegations of price-fixing by British oil companies. […]
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter There have been reports in the press – see today's Independent (following yet another Paul Waugh exclusive) – that an "81 Group" was being formed to organise last week's rebels. Mark Pritchard MP is quoted as saying that "it is not a formal grouping, a faction or a party […]
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter. Yesterday in the Commons Tory MPs voiced concern about legal financial companies that charge very high interest rates. They were speaking in response to proposals from the Labour benches. Learning the lessons from anti-smoking campaigns, Neil Parish MP called for health warnings to be added to the advertising of […]
By Jonathan Isaby Both divisions tonight – on increasing the upper tuition fees limit to £9,000 and on raising the cap on basic tuition fees to £6,000 – saw identical results: 323 votes in favour and 302 votes against. Factoring in two tellers from each side, you had 325 MPs backing the Government line and […]
Here are excerpts from four more maiden speeches delivered during Thursday’s debate on poverty. Tracey Crouch, who gained Chatham and Aylesford, said that there was “no easy answer” to solving poverty: “It is not just one thing that needs to change. Low income, family breakdown, addiction, mental health problems and criminal behaviour contribute to a […]