Michael Crick
Andrew Fisher’s tweets anger senior Labour MPs
The morning papers are full of all sorts of embarrassing and highly vituperative tweets from Jeremy Corbyn’s new head of policy, Andrew Fisher.
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Gary Gibbon
Sir Malcolm Rifkind resigns: why he decided to stand down
The key moment in Sir Malcolm Rifkind’s change of heart was the meeting with the chief whip on Monday.
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How bad is Cameron’s ‘women problem’? FactCheck Q&A
David Cameron’s been accused of having a “women problem”. Does he? And have this morning’s movements in the cabinet helped?
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Westminster’s battle of the sexes – FactCheck Q&A
From the so-called “Blair babes” to opposition cries that one in four of Tory female MPs elected in 2010 is leaving, is the face of Westminster really looking more manly? FactCheck has a look.
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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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FactCheck: Do we pay MPs too much?
Are British politicians badly paid compared to their European counterparts? FactCheck jumps on the gravy train…
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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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Michael Crick
UK commissioner want outside QC to question bankers
“There are very few barristers and QCs in the Commons with the experience of mounting a detailed and probing line of interrogation.”
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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.
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Gary Gibbon
It’s not only MPs who are arguing over Commons expenses
Gary Gibbon blogs on the clash of views on MPs expenses between Sir Thomas Legg and Sir Paul Kennedy, and why not all the money will be paid back to the Commons.
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Welcome to the new FactCheck blog
Today Channel 4 relaunches FactCheck a blog drawing on the fact-checking skills of the Channel 4 News team, including Political Correspondent Cathy Newman.
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Jon Snow
End of term and more
Bye Bye to my member, and a word to Chris, Joe10 and Ken on yesterday’s class war blog. That’s it, they’ve gone! Eighty two days now before we see another MP in the House of Commons chamber on October 12th. And in what a parlous state they seem to be leaving British politics. Tomorrow, The…
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Jon Snow
Do politicians ‘get’ transparency?
If the expenses scandal is about anything, it is about the public’s right to know what politicians do in their name and with their money. Yet as the parties attempt to purge the transgressors, all the indications are that the same secrecy and attempted cover-up that led to the leaking of MPs’ expenses to the…
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MPs' expenses and Britain's reputation overseas
“Good governance is based on three things – capability, responsiveness and accountability,” the Department for International Development (DfID) declares on its website. The government department which funds anti-corruption programmes in developing countries goes on to say that it uses this assessment, as well as “promoting good governance and transparency, and fighting corruption – to make…