By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter Yesterday, a Private Member's Bill by Rebecca Harris, the Member for Castle Point, which sought to move British clocks forward by an hour all year round, was brought before the House. The Government was supportive of the Bill, and there was a strong turnout with wide cross-party support for […]
By Jonathan Isaby Last month the Government published its ambitious Welfare Reform Bill and I wrote about it at the time here. Yesterday the Bill had its Second Reading debate in the Commons and here is a flavour of the warm welcome it got from the Tory backbenches. Several MPs took the opportunity to expand […]
I said in advance of the general election that the 2010 intake of Conservative MPs would see Thatcher’s socially-mobile children of the 1980s finally arriving in Parliament. Two fine examples of this breed made their maiden speeches on Monday. Jackie Doyle-Price, who gained Thurrock from Labour, said that tackling the long-term culture of welfare dependency […]