The voters of Mid Bedfordshire may not have the power to precipitate a by-election, but her parliamentary colleagues do. If they don’t, will their outrage at her conduct ring hollow?
In Wales and London, socialist politicians have begun to see the consequences of squeezing the private rented sector.
The committee’s report was thorough, but the sentence is disproportionate.
The Chair of the Standards committee says the whole system of investigating the behaviour of MPs needs to be reformed.
The row over the investigation into the former Prime Minister is, in almost every respect, a political one.
Tory MPs felt no great urge to leap to the PM’s defence, but also showed no desire to defenestrate him, and instead drifted off to lunch.
As long as this former priest and aspirant actor can find some high moral reason for doing so, he loves to make trouble.
Why did so many senior Conservatives invest so much political capital in a scheme dependent on Starmer’s goodwill?
By not offering voters a retail package of reform, he has left himself with little political cover and limited escape options.
Many MPs feel deeply unhappy about how the Paterson case has been handled by the Commissioner.
This Commons has been excoriated over Brexit, but nothing becomes it like its ending. By putting Hoyle and Bryant in the final, it turned its back on the Bercow era.
But Laing’s 127 votes have to divide roughly five to one if he is to beat Hoyle – who therefore remains favourite.
Laing has 122 votes, Bryant 120. Unless the candidates who withdraw transfer disproportionately to one of them, Hoyle seems to be home and dry.