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
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
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
When the government urges us to make sure research has an impact on the real world, I’m not sure this is what they mean. Just after PMQs yesterday, I tweeted … Read the rest
‘Prediction is very difficult’, said Niels Bohr, ‘especially if it’s about the future’ – and it’s always potentially embarrassing when you revisit things you wrote and in which you had … Read the rest
Last night saw 81 Conservative MPs rebel against the Government, making it not only the largest ever Tory rebellion on Europe in Government, but very nearly twice as large as … Read the rest