Commons set for parliamentary guerilla warfare?
Gary Gibbon predicts internecine strife in the Commons next week.
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Gary Gibbon predicts internecine strife in the Commons next week.
The Auditor General refuses to sign off last year’s House of Commons accounts in full amid serious concerns about millions of pounds of expenses paid to MPs.
David Cameron fought off the opposition during PMQs as he basked in the realisation that months of royal distraction from the problems at home are ahead, writes broadcaster Peter McHugh.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has told the House of Commons it is up to the “police and the police alone” to decide how to proceed over the News of the World phone-hacking row.
Gary Gibbon blogs on how MPs are expressing regrets, but few apologies as they prepare to retire from the Commons in the wake of the expenses scandal.
All my working life, the Commons has been a daunting and intimidating place – a place where I had no place. I have never been a “lobby correspondent”, although I have a journalist’s pass. Yet even with that, and even as an assiduous voter, the Commons has never felt a place that I had any…
Amid the furore in which MPs from all parties appeared to abuse the Commons expenses rules without actually breaking them (see my posting yesterday), let us not forget the House of Lords. Who remembers that four of their lordships were subject to a newspaper sting reported in January this year, which alleged they were prepared…
We spoke to Leader of the House of Commons, Lucy Powell, and started by asking her if Labour’s gloomy warnings were the right strategy.
We spoke to Chris Philp, Shadow Leader of the House of Commons and Former Chief Secretary to the Treasury at the time of Liz Truss’s disastrous mini-budget.
The House of Commons was bursting at the seams as the new parliament began its first sitting.
Can Sinn Fein become Northern Ireland’s biggest party in Westminster even though they won’t take up their seats in the House of Commons?
The government’s Renters Reform Bill has passed through the House of Commons and will now make its way to the House of Lords.
We were joined by Labour MP Lucy Powell, who serves as the shadow leader of the House of Commons.
Rishi Sunak has told the House of Commons that the explosion at Gaza’s Al Ahli hospital last week was likely caused by a missile fired from within Gaza.
The controversial Illegal Migration Bill is back in the House of Commons.