Last night’s massive rebellion by 91 Conservative MPs broke four records. It was – as many have pointed out – the largest Commons rebellion to have hit the coalition since … Read the rest
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Throughout the Euro 2012 tournament we tweeted about the politics behind the countries competing and looked at whether various factors, such as population size, GDP, constitutional monarchy vs. republics, euro vs. non-euro, and women in government, to see if they made a difference on the pitch.
We’ve been producing end-of-session reports detailing the rebellions of government backbenchers for several years now – but we’ve never had to produce one quite so large before. The Bumper Book … Read the rest
At 3.24am this morning the number of Liberal Democrat councillors dipped below 3000 for the first time since the party was formed.
If you were being pedantic you’d query that … Read the rest
As we explained in a post last week, over the coming weeks and months we are going to be digging through the NottsPolitics vault and publishing short ’60 second … Read the rest
One of the most read pieces published on this blog to date came during the Conservative backbench rebellion in October last year over a European referendum, in which we … Read the rest