Theresa May endured a hat trick of defeats over Brexit in the Commons yesterday which included her Government being found in contempt of Parliament. The contempt ruling is the first in history against a Government and means ministers must publish the full legal advice on Mrs May’s Brexit deal instead of a summary. Leader of […]
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At least 11 people wrongly deported from the UK in the Windrush scandal have since died, Home Secretary Sajid Javid has admitted. The toll may be even higher, campaigners fear, after Mr javid said his officials had been unable to contact many people caught up in the deportations. Javid supplied the new figures to the […]
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Billionaire businessman Sir Philip Green was today named in Parliament as the man accused of sexual harassment and racial abuse by a newspaper. A court injunction had prevented the Daily Telegraph from naming him, but Labour peer Lord Peter Hain used parliamentary privilege to identify him in the Lords. He said it was his duty […]
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Politicians from all parties have united to condemn anonymous abuse directed at Prime Minister Theresa May by her own MPs. The comments emerged over the weekend in a Sunday Times article when an unnamed backbench Tory claimed her leadership was nearing the end. In the article, the MP was quoted as saying: “The moment is […]
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A Conservative back bencher has launched a scathing attack on his own party, saying he wouldn’t vote for them if he was not an MP. Johnny Mercer also described Theresa May’s government as a ‘shitshow’ and said he would refuse to serve in it as a minister. Mercer, MP for Plymouth Moor since 2015, told […]
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House of Commons speaker John Bercow could stand down next summer in the wake of a report exposing a culture of bullying and harassment in Parliament. He has told friends he will quit by July next year after ten years in the role, according to the BBC. The report by Dame Laura Cox accuses leading […]
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Prime Minister Theresa May declared an end to austerity in her keynote speech to the Conservative Party conference this week. While her startling entrance to Abba’s Dancing Queen grabbed the headlines, her speech unveiled a number of new domestic initiatives: The end of austerity measures which led to huge public spending cuts over the last […]
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The Conservative Party conference started in Birmingham this week with deep divisions over Brexit threatening to dominate the annual event. Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit strategy came under fire on the opening day with former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson launching an attack on her in a Sunday newspaper. Backbench MP and leading Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg […]
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New Government proposals to redraw constituency boundaries for the House of Commons would have given the Conservatives a comfortable majority at the last election. The number of seats would fall from 650 to 600 under the plans, with the constituencies of some leading MPs disappearing. The proposed new-look constituency map is an attempt to even […]
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