Violence at Westminster: eyewitness report from Andrew Gimson
The view from the Commons press gallery of the moments after the attack.
The view from the Commons press gallery of the moments after the attack.
These students parrot the priggish and illiberal morality preached to them by their self-righteous elders.
The proposed reform has lost support even among those who spent years calling for the old system to be scrapped.
Had he been in better health, and Northern Ireland a first Minister other than Arlene Foster, its government might not have collapsed.
If an MP neglects his constituents then they can throw him out.
Look forward to a mass of Henry VIII clauses. The Tudor monarch is about to experience his biggest revival since Wolf Hall.
Those Remainer MPs who hope to continue the fight face particular difficulties.
But more control should also be handed down to Scottish local authorities.
With the public sceptical after years of letdowns, and the importance of the manifesto fresh in the headlines, it’ll be 2019 before action is possible.
In the short-term, this editorship unleashes a clowder of cats in the Conservative dovecot. In the longer, the move looks like a step nearer Westminster’s exit door.
“Now is not the time,” is an eminently reasonable response.
Many parliamentarians feel that CCHQ has hung them out to dry by being slow to take responsibility for its errors.
In terms of the effectiveness of government and its presentation to voters, the Prime Minister could lose roughly a third of it without losing any sleep.
In yesterday evening’s showdown debate, the politician and the expert were excessively polite to each other.
The longer it gets, the harder it becomes to simultaneously please both the EU institutions and the British electorate.