Sam Lister
"I know of so many MPs who areon the verge ofsending a letter," says another MP. "We can't be that far away." At a gathering in the last few days of Tory MPs representing marginal seats - which happened to take place on the same day as Sue Gray's report came out - I hear ...
CBC president Catherine Tait made another appearance before the parliamentary heritage committee on Monday. Prior appearances have usually resulted in her being yelled at by Conservative and NDP MPs for continuing to collect bonuses while laying off employees. And this one was no exception: Tait conti...
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This currently equates to 54 Tory MPs needing to submit letters to chairman Sir Graham Brady - a target which, given the number of public announcements calling for the PM to resign in recent days, would be likely to be met in the near future. ...
At the same time it has extended the system of MPs’ allowances, and accelerated the process (already under way for many years) by which MPs have become the compliant, feather-bedded employees of Downing Street rather than the vigilant representatives of the British people. When were they EVER...
While the right to control one’s own waters has strong symbolic importance and is an issue of supreme importance for many Tory MPs, the really great negotiators tend to put pragmatism before politics and look at the negotiation holistically. Let’s hope that the EU and UK negotiators take th...
However, Tory MPs are not taking kindly to the chancellor's apparent lack of alternative strategy for growth. Mr Hunt is sensitive to the call for tax cuts. His party has been riled up by a report of from the Institute of Fiscal Studies, which said that the tax burd...
If Stowell’s amendment passed, Sunak might have tried to overturn it in the Commons. But with Labour and more than 100 Tory MPs signalling their opposition to foreign state ownership of the Telegraph, such a move would have been futile. ...
I partly interpret the sort of silence as being people not really understanding how to react. I think there’s a — especially Labour MPs that I speak to, Labour politicians — I think there’s a feeling at the moment that the cards are stacked against them politically around the world an...