Michael Crick
Police officers grilled over ‘plebgate’ meeting
MPs have quizzed key figures from the police over the plebgate affair, which engulfed politician Andrew Mitchell last year.
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Gary Gibbon
After last night’s Syria vote, has Britain become the new Sweden?
After Thursday’s vote against military involvement in Syria, Britain will have to re-think its role in the world. But many of those involved failed to anticipate a defeat for the coalition government.
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Siobhan Kennedy
Google in the hot seat – but HMRC feeling the heat
Matt Brittin, Google’s boss in northern Europe, will be showing a humble face in front of MPs this morning. But it is the taxman who should face the toughest questions.
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FactCheck: are we right to pull up Pakistan over taxes?
MPs have warned that Pakistan gets a lot of British cash, but doesn’t collect enough from its own citizens. Are they right?
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Gary Gibbon
‘Nothing will change my mind’. Really, Mr Clegg?
With a cabinet reshuffle on the cards and calls from within the party to quit, the Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg faces tough decisions. Gary Gibbon reports on how he fared in front of colleagues
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Victoria Macdonald
Disability campaigner Lord Morris dies aged 84
Victoria Macdonald blogs on the death of Lord Morris and his impact on disability legislation in the UK.
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Jon Snow
Is any of us fit to pick up the Olympic baton?
In the aftermath of the Olympics, the discernable spirit in the country is one of pulling together rather than finding grounds upon which to disagree.
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Michael Crick
Death of Lords Reform: defeat or ‘breach of contract’?
Relations within the coalition grew significantly worse today, with Conservative sources in Whitehall admitting defeat on the coalition’s plans for Lords reform.
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Jon Snow
Libor rate-fixing: a scandal growing by the day
MPs on the Treasury Select Committee have a chance this afternoon to do a little to remedy their own disparate efforts to question Barclays’ Bob Diamond. Diamond walked all over them.
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Gary Gibbon
Full steam for Lords reform
Gary Gibbon blogs on the rising political tension within the three main political parties ahead of the vote on Lords reform.
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Gary Gibbon
Tory MP: ‘We need blue nose-pegs’
As Parliament returns after the recess, one 2010 intake Tory MP tells Gary Gibbon he is thinking of getting a bulk order of blue nose-pegs to wear as he voted for measures he loathed but which Lib Dem coalition partners had secured in negotiations.
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Gary Gibbon
Monkey business in the Commons over circus animal ban
The claws were out in the House of Commons over David Cameron’s crackdown on an MP’s attempt to ban the use of live circus animals, as Gary Gibbon writes.
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Gary Gibbon
Bloodsport in the Commons as Clegg makes NHS concession
Nick Clegg gives an indication that the Government’s timetable on NHS reform may slip.
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Jon Snow
Does size matter in British politics?
It’s been a hot news period. Aung San Suu Kyi’s release from house arrest and the freedom of Paul and Rachel Chandler from their kidnap ordeal in Somalia. So spare a thought for the future governance of the United Kingdom…or not.
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Gary Gibbon
“Hurt” MPs prepare to say farewell to the Commons
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.