We could be seeing the start of a Royal College of Teaching.
There is a significant possibility of HMRC being taken to Court, and of judicial reviews in which the judges may find against it.
There are big, brave, politically difficult discussions that we need to have as a nation, if we want to save our NHS from going over a cliff.
We are determined not to repeat the mistakes of the past; of allowing bubbles to build up and burst, putting the stability of the economy at risk.
His victory challenges the conventional view that he can’t operate like a conventional politician.
By comparison, his competitors are like distinguished national servicemen.
The Treasury Select Committee is right to resist the Government’s plan to empower HMRC to raid bank accounts without the permission of a court.
Austria thus joins the committee’s deliberations (in a manner of speaking)
The candidate for the Chairmanship of the Defence Select Committee argues that our defence strategy must not be shaped by indecision and drift.
Business as usual isn’t working. We need to realise that the Commons today is more like the US Congress of the 1980s and early 1990s – and act accordingly.
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter One of the most significant features of this parliament has been the rise of a much more independent parliamentary party… The small number of frontbench jobs relative to the size of the 2010 intake… The difference between the Coalition Agreement and the manifesto promises that MPs were elected upon… The […]
By Jonathan Isaby Following the recent appointment of a number of Conservative MPs as Parliamentary Private Secretaries to ministers, vacancies arose on the select committees on which they had been serving (since PPSs do not serve on select committees). As a result, new elections were held among Conservative backbenchers to fill those vacancies and the […]
By Paul Goodman Peter Hoskins has posted a brief account on the Spectator's Coffee House site about this morning's Treasury Select Committee appearance by George Osborne. The Chancellor promised to allow the committee to approve his proposed new appointments to the Office of Budget Responsibility – thereby giving them the power to veto his suggestions […]
One of the innovations in this new Parliament is the creation of a BackBench Business Committee which is gaining the power from the Establishment to determine the backbencher-initiated business in the Commons chamber and Westminster Hall. Last week Labour MP Natascha Engel beat Tory MP and former Deputy Speaker Sir Alan Haselhurst by 202 votes […]
The move would simplify the system, speed transparency and improve accountability. The Treasury musn’t back off change.