The House of Commons is generally considered to be ineffective when it comes to amending government legislation. The statistics back this up: no government legislation was rejected outright in the … Read the rest
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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
Parliament resumes today, after the Christmas recess – and we have a rare piece of good news for the government whips. Having just updated our data on rebellions up until … Read the rest
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