Last night, it was announced that Chloe Smith and John Randall are stepping down from Government. Here are three quick thoughts about what those two changes mean.
> The original Newsnight grilling.
By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter. Conservative Friends of Israel is an influential affiliate group of the Conservative Party which contains perhaps the largest number of Conservative MPs of any group in Parliament. It exists to promote understanding of and support for the State of Israel in the Conservative Party, and its membership reaches the […]
Chloe Smith's interview starts at 6.15.
By Joseph Willits Follow Joseph on Twitter Yesterday Robert Halfon's motion urging the Government to consider scrapping any further increases in fuel duty passed without a division. The debate was forced by an e-petition, which attracted over 100,000 signatures. Halfon had the backing of The Sun's Keep It Down campaign and FairFuelUK group led by Quentin Wilson. The […]
By Joseph Willits Follow Joseph on Twitter Chloe Smith's appointment as Economic Secretary to the Treasury caused a bit of a stir, so it's worth clocking her first Commons speech in the post, which she made yesterday. Smith spoke of the need to be “frank about the situation in which we find ourselves” with regards to Air […]
Rarely do we reprint a speech in its entirety, but in the case of the maiden speech of the new MP for Norwich North, I am making an exception. Having taken her seat on Monday, she confidently delivered the speech to the Commons this afternoon during an Opposition Day debate on Higher Education. This is […]
The Norwich North by-election was held back in July but since today was the first day that Parliament has sat since the poll, it was only this afternoon that victor Chloe Smith was able officially to take her seat in the Commons. She has just done so, flanked by colleagues Angela Browning and Sir Peter […]
Chloe Smith was elected MP for Norwich North at last week's by-election When I heard the results of the by-election announced, I felt a mixture of things. Ecstatic, because this opens an exciting new chapter for me. Impatient, because I’m desperate to get on with the work I’ve been talking about for months. Humbled and […]