Mhairi Black takes Westminster by storm single handed
It is hard, if not impossible, to remember an MP making the political and verbal splash in his or her maiden speech that Mhairi Black achieved yesterday in the Commons.
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It is hard, if not impossible, to remember an MP making the political and verbal splash in his or her maiden speech that Mhairi Black achieved yesterday in the Commons.
Jails in England and Wales are found to be in “their worst state for a decade” with some prisons now merely places of “violence, squalor and idleness”.
Mhairi Black, the youngest MP in the Commons, tells the house that she is the only 20-year-old in the UK the chancellor is prepared to help with housing costs following last week’s budget.
Anti-fox hunting campaigners knew this was coming and have already attacked what they feel is the government trying to overturn a popular law change using the backdoor of a statutory instrument.
The Culture Secretary John Whittingdale has confirmed the Sunday Times story that the government is handing over responsibility for the free licence fees for the over-75s policy to the BBC.
The agony is over for many MPs. Elections for the select committee chairs were announced by the Commons speaker today.
There’s an update from Sir John Chilcot’s Iraq Inquiry – but you may feel it doesn’t shed much light…
Some close to the PM believe he is already leaning towards the lenient approach pioneered by Harold Wilson: letting ministers keep their jobs while they campaign on opposing side in the referendum.
Former Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy suffered a “major haemorrhage” caused by his alcoholism, a post-mortem examination has concluded.
George Osborne announces the sell-off of the last third of Royal Mail and Ed Miliband gives his first speech in nine years from the back benches.
Playwright and artist John Byrne is the kid from Paisley, who made it from the notorious Ferguslie Park housing estate to a life of fame as an artist and writer.
Charles Kennedy’s distinctive stance on his own party’s positioning may be about to undergo a revival.
Former Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy has died at the age of 55. Lord Ashdown called him a man of “wit, charm, judgment, principle and decency”, while David Cameron praised his humanity.
Former minister Simon Burns said it was a joy to be in office in a Tory kaleidoscope government. It was through, he said, a kaleidoscope that all was blue and blessedly without yellow, purple or red.
Alistair Carmichael, the former Scottish Secretary, should not resign as an MP for lying about a leaked memo because many politicians are guilty of telling a “brazen lie”, Sir Malcom Bruce has said.