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
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I recently spoke at the book launch for Paul Flynn’s latest book How to be an MP. It was, people think, the first book launch held in the Speaker’s … Read the rest
This Tuesday’s Independent contained what was for the most part a by-the-numbers article about parliamentary whipping; it managed to squeeze in references to ‘fear’, ‘submission’, ‘the little black book’, … Read the rest
The vote of John Baron, the Conservative MP for Basildon and Billericay, against military action in Libya was an unusual thing. As we noted in an earlier post, it … Read the rest
Eight years ago, in March 2003, some 139 government MPs voted against the decision to invade Iraq, along with dozens of abstentions. It was the largest backbench rebellion on any … Read the rest