Andrew Gimson’s Commons sketch: like Boycott, May knows how to blunt an attack
Such frivolous considerations as entertaining the spectators play no part in the Prime Minister’s defensive technique.
Bullying, harassment and abuse at Westminster. How the Speaker and the party leaders can get a grip.
The Prime Minister has floated what the Speaker has called “a corporate scheme”. He and the Commons Commission must make it happen – fast.
Fifteen snapshots of the Westminster abuse and harassment story
The primary accountability of MPs to their constituents, rather than to the whips and party machines, must be safeguarded.
Remaining in the ECHR is a cost of leaving the EU
Given its majority and manifesto, the Government cannot take on both delivering Brexit and quitting the court. But it must stand fast against the Charter of Fundamental Rights.
A scandal about alleged harassment and bullying of MPs’ staff has been a long time coming
Parliament should recall what happened with expenses – if they want to avoid a whirlwind then they need to deal with this issue transparently and forcefully, up front.
As the civil service starts to grow again Conservatives must remember our mission to reduce bureaucracy
Francis Maude was responsible for a huge achievement in slimming down the numbers in Whitehall. His legacy is under threat.
One of the main dangers for Brexit is the German preference for going on talking indefinitely
Berlin has a quite different, and far more leisurely, sense of time to London.
May is much stronger than her critics are able to see
The Prime Minister may well be better fitted than any of her rivals to carry through Brexit.
The latest monthly ConservativeHome Party members survey is now live
As well as our regular monthly questions, we seek participants’ views on the question of suspending Brexit negotiations in favour of an exit on WTO terms.
Andrew Gimson’s Commons sketch: Labour MPs tempted by a perilous delusion
May encourages Corbyn to take up primeministerial posturing.
Fewer women. The same ethnic minority share. More people educated at state schools. The Tory intake of 2017.
On the usual form of general elections, it shouldn’t be there at all – and is more shaped by the Party’s leadership than any of its predecessors.
Why do some Tories think it appropriate to give themselves pay rises in a time of austerity?
The latest council leader to vote to increase his own allowances talks of himself as a business leader, not a public servant.
Spain could learn from the UK’s handling of the SNP
It’s unimaginable that Westminster would have acted towards Scotland as Madrid has acted towards Catalonia.
If it won’t build houses, the Government should focus on policy for renters
George Osborne made a bogeyman of buy-to-let landlords, but making it harder and more expensive to supply rental housing is deeply counter-productive.
Brokenshire’s hands-off approach to Northern Ireland is running out of road
If the Northern Irish Office is manifestly unwilling to move towards direct rule, it has no leverage against Ulster’s recalcitrant legislators.