For Wiebe, medical assistance in dying (MAID) is “incredibly rewarding” work. She hasn’t faced nearly the same sort of stigma she once faced as an abortion provider and says that while she and her MAID colleagues “all work within the law,” she’s also not as “conservative” as so...
Anyone voting for the ageement is surely totally unsuitable to be a Conservative MP. Just not bright enough or perhaps they are deliberately acting against the interests of the UK.. What other possible explanations are there? Then again I would also say that about the absurdly damaging and poi...
SIR MICHAEL SPICER has been chosen as the "official starter" of the Tory leadership race, with 79 out of the 166 MPs voting for this former anti-Maastricht rebel as the chairman of the 1922 Committee. Speculation is already rife as to whether Sir Michael's election has added anything to ...
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with the whip withdrawn from several Conservative and Labour MPs. The Conservative Party instituted a new code of conduct and disciplinary procedures while Labour set up an independent inquiry. The same strand of scandal also spread to the Liberal Democrats and to the Scottish Parliament. Elsewhere ...
All Conservative MPs, especially those who were prominent in backing Brexit, need to feel a massive pressure to make this great change a resounding success. No time to waste with futile gesture politics. All efforts must be focused on making the UK the most attractive economy, at least in Eu...
The 48-year-old husband and father had served for the force for 15 years and was described by Conservative MP James Cleverly, who served with him in the Royal Artillery, as "a lovely man". Image:PC Keith Palmer was stabbed to death by a terrorist as he stood guard outside Parliament ...
Party activists and the groups tend to pressure and contact ‘like-minded MPs’, such as MPs from the party’s left-wing, young MPs or those with a migration background. This relationship seems to be reciprocal as the left-wing MPs yield a certain level of power, knowing that they can ...
More importantly, he is one of a number of Conservative and Labour MPs to have announced their retirement after the election was called — a decision with big implications for who will end up representing these seats after the election, for reasons I’ll explain below. Inside Politics is edite...
For Badenoch, who hopes to succeed Sunak as Conservative leader, the Telegraph and Spectator are media players with a hotline to party members who have the final say in leadership contests. “She was working behind the scenes, pushing for action,” said one of the people. The ever-bullish ...