Meanwhile, the Government has quietly been appointing more trade emissaries during the last few months.
All but two of those elected are from the 2010, 2015 and 2017 intakes.
There’s one undeniable trend among those promoted: they backed the winning candidate.
The Prime Minister’s decision to publish his tax return has big knock-on implications for his colleagues, and perhaps for himself too.
The Harlow MP offers a solution to a complaint made by some of his fellow Conservative backbenchers.
By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter. The Daily Mail this morning reports on the 118 Conservative MPs who have written to constituents indicating their opposition to gay marriage proposals. The Mail says "Their opposition has been expressed in letters and emails sent to constituents who have contacted them with their own concerns", and points out that […]
By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter. We know that 91 Tories voted against the Lords Reform Bill last night. That's the big, headline grabbing figure – the biggest rebellion in this Parliament.
By Jonathan Isaby Two Conservative backenchers raised the case of the Lockerbie bomber, al-Megrahi, at Foreign Office Questions yesterday, in the wake of the leak of documents suggesting that the Labour ministers had secretly advised Libya how to secure release of Lockerbie bomber. Pauline Latham and Rober Halfon both pressed the Foreign Secretary to comment […]
By Paul Goodman Pauline Latham, the MP for Mid-Derbyshire, made a very thorough speech in yesterday's debate on Zimbabwe, setting the scene – "Since 2000 we have seen the breadbasket of Africa turn into the basket case of Africa. The commercial farming sector and the economy have collapsed, even though Zimbabwe used to export produce […]
Pauline Latham is the newly-elected MP for the new constituency of Mid Derbyshire. In her maiden speech this week, she explained that a "spiteful" decision by Labour-controlled Derbyshire County Council politicised her in the 1980s, as well as explaining how she has started a social action project in Uganda: "I am fortunate to have known […]