The Westminster stage of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse has heard shocking allegations of cover ups by political parties, police and the prosecution service. Today an investigation opened into “whether Westminster institutions have failed and whether indeed they are still failing to protect children from child sex abuse.” ...
"But the Queen has no such veto; She must sign her own death-warrant if the two Houses unanimously send it up to her." So Walter Bagehot wrote in 1867. It's doubtful whether today's MPs believe parliamentary supremacy encompasses regicide. But why not try it out? After all, a majority of ...
It’s been a difficult few weeks for the Brexit adventure. The meaningful vote has turned into a merry-go-round of re-runs which leaves us wondering exactly which definition of meaningful is being applied. Amidst cries from the ERG that the People’s Vote lobby simply wants to have vote after vote until ...
A cross party coalition between the Liberal Democrats, SNP and newly-formed Independent Group could stand a chance of ousting the big two for the first time in modern British political history at the next General Election if they campaign on a Remain ticket. Early indications suggest the Independent Group and ...
Tony Blair is odds-on favourite to be next to join the new Independent Group. The former Prime Minister joins Alistair Campbell, Heidi Allen and Nicky Morgan on a list of the potential next big names to join the group. It follows news that three Tory MPs have quit their party to join the centrist ...
Conservative MP Christopher Chope who recently scuppered legislation against 'upskirting' - filming up women's skirts - has now blocked a bill to safeguard children from female genital mutilation (FGM). This bill was also a private members bill, and yet again Chope used parliamentary practice to object to a second reading ...
Award winning comedian and News Quiz favourite Jeremy Hardy has died after battling cancer his publicist has announced. Tributes from the greats of broadcasting, comedy and social activisim have poured in this morning (see below). The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said: "Jeremy Hardy was a dear, lifelong friend. He always gave ...
An hour before Theresa May told the House of Commons to vote for the government to reopen negotiations, Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker had been in contact to convey that it would be fruitless for her to come to Brussels on the basis of an attempt to reopen the Withdrawal Agreement. Indeed, ...
Two and half years on from the referendum and those sunlit uplands we were promised are starting to look more like a raging forest fire on the horizon. What was supposed to be the “easiest deal in history” has boiled down to a Prime Minister in absurd denial about a ...