As revealed on For the Desk Drawer earlier, an updated paperback edition of my book Revolution and State in Modern Mexico: The Political Economy of Uneven Development has now been … Read the rest
Category: Revolts
It wouldn’t take long to describe parliamentary rebellions on British military action so far this parliament. There have only been four Coalition revolts, over three issues: continued British military involvement … Read the rest
We’ve been producing end-of session reports on the behaviour of government MPs at Westminster for almost a decade. Last year’s was a record-breaker: Coalition MPs rebelling more often than … Read the rest
Tomorrow, we launch our annual report on the rebelliousness of MPs, packed full of data about the behaviour of MPs in the last session – who’s rebelled, how often, over … Read the rest
We’ve been producing end-of-session reports detailing the rebellions of government backbenchers for several years now, and last year’s was a whopper: the largest number of rebellions faced by any Prime … Read the rest
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As someone who’s spent a long time – and probably far too long – studying the willingness of MPs … Read the rest
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, GREETING!
AND WHEREAS most people on Monday were interested in press regulation, we were interested in Conservative rebellions on press regulation.
AND … Read the rest
Ten years ago today, a record-breaking rebellion took place in the House of Commons. It was the largest backbench revolt, by members of any political party, on any subject since … Read the rest
It was clear even before the 2010 election that there was the potential for clashes between the Conservative leadership and their MPs on issues such as same-sex marriage. An article… Read the rest
The media caravan has already moved on, but for the record here are five more observations about the boundaries vote, in increasing order of importance.
1. Not that it … Read the rest