The Exiting the European Union Committee has been renamed. The Conservative MPs elected to it are staunch Brexiteers.
Any candidate who focuses solely on leaving the EU will hit a brick wall with the Parliamentary Party.
We need a powerful Parliamentary spending watchdog, a Budget Committee, to stop hard-earned public cash being wasted.
Levels of trust between Numbers 10 and 11 Downing Street may be low, but the latter holds the key to helping create an economy and society that works for everyone.
Ultimately, the only way properly to determine the extent of both this and wider problems is through a full public inquiry.
“Not enough senior women”…” “Not enough interested women”… “All the good ones have been snapped up”… “We already have one”… “No vacancies”…
These steps will improve the efficiency and competitiveness of the UK’s international trade, whatever the outcome of the Article 50 negotiations.
By accepting that 16 and 17 year olds in Scotland could vote on their future during the Scottish referendum, we undermined the case for not extending the franchise further.
Ability, popularity with colleagues and specialist knowledge seem to have mattered more in these elections than intake or ideology.
The process of choosing members is taking a long time. Some will wonder how departments can continue without full scrutiny for almost four months.
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They already elect their chairmen and there will be fewer trips abroad – at least when the Commons is sitting. That means more scrutiny of what Ministers are up to.
Aggressive and intimidating enforcement plagued our system long before Covid: now is not the time to cross our fingers and hope that this might change.