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Tonight 114 Conservative MPs have backed a motion ‘regretting’ the lack of an in/out EU referendum bill in the Queen’s Speech, and voted against their own government’s agenda for the year ahead. Awkward.
Even in times of austerity it seems to be a boom time to be a public service consultant. The table below is made from data taken from the Cabinet Office spend data website, and shows that in the first three months of 2013 the office the houses David Camron,...
John Hemming will join the Conservative rebels in voting to support their EU motion. The Lib Dem MP for Birmingham Yardley is currently the only Lib Dem to vote for the motion, which is going against the Queen’s Speech.
Martha Lane Fox made her maiden speech in the House of Lords yesterday. The lastminute.com founder spoke of the need to encourage development of great skills, and gave moving insights into how the internet had helped her when severely injured, having...
Beginning my meeting with @barackobama @whitehouse. twitter.com/David_Cameron/… — David Cameron (@David_Cameron) May 13, 2013
Every Sunday the Guido Fawkes team write a column for the Sun on Sunday, revealing some of best gossip from the week gone by. Imagine how surprised I was then on reading this week’s column to see a story revealing Chris Rennard had made a speech about...
Nadine Dorries has had the Conservative whip restored, having it removed after she had appeared on reality tv show I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here. The news comes just a a few days after Tory donor Lord Ashcroft let his opinion on the matter be...
In all the Bills announced today by the Queen one department is front and centre – Vince Cable’s Business, Innovation and Skills. From what I can tell Cable’s department will have three new bills to steer through, while at most others like the Home Office...
The state opening of parliament saw the Queen announce the introduction of 15 Bills, as well the continuation of the Energy Bill and two draft bills. The full list of Bills announced today is as follows: National Insurance Contributions Bill Deregulation...
New ConHome Executive Editor Mark Wallace fears that despite clear guidelines in the Queen’s Speech, the snoopers’ charter is reemerging once again. Despite Nick Clegg saying recently that it will not happen, a point endorsed Cambridge MP Julian Huppert...
After Nigella Lawson’s abuse at the hands of Charels Saatchi, Nick Griffin thought this was funny: If I had the opportunity to squeeze Nigella Lawson, her throat wouldn't be my first choice. — Nick Griffin MEP (@nickgriffinmep) June 17, 2013 Apparently...
On a gorgeous, almost summer, evening in Westminster the final throes of the campaign for equal marriage were in progress. It’s very easy to be cynical about politics but this felt different. People from all the political parties came and spoke in favour...
Sheffield Hallam MP Nick Clegg was attacked when speaking to a local blog about the area and the run up to the 2015 election. Thankfully, the attacker was only Clegg’s young son, who was eager to get his hands on some candy floss that he had been promised!...
Labour’s hypocrisy since 2010 has been galling, but their response to the Prism surveillance scandal really turns the stomach. I’ve just walked past a TV screen at Terminal 5 (going to Washington, a pure coincidence,) to see Shadow Foreign Secretary Douglas...
Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg, and Lib Dem colleague Julian Huppert have been nominated for the Internet Service Provider Associations Internet Hero of the Year award. The nomination comes after both led opposition against the Communications Data Bill...
Former major Tory donor Lord Ashcroft is using his Twitter account to cause trouble once again. Australian Labour Party was about 12 points behind the Liberals. Changed leader Gillard to Rudd. Now 2 points behind!! Interesting — Lord Ashcroft (@LordAshcroft)...
The latest odds from Labrokes put Red Len McCuskey at 200-1 to be next Labour leader. At even shorter odds are union advocate Owen Jones, and HuffPo Political Director, and Ed Miliband supporter, Mehdi Hassan. Why would Len bother running for the leadership,...
Guido Fawkes has managed to get hold of Ed Miliband’s notes for Prime Minister’s Questions today. It’s clear from the notes that Miliband was expecting the pasting on party funding he got today. What’s interesting though is that in only two and bit pages...
Mark Pritchard: "A lot of MPs take a paycut [when they come in to Parliament] particularly on the Conservative benches" — PoliticsHome (@politicshome) July 1, 2013
Equal marriage has tonight taken another huge step towards becoming a reality, with a wrecking amendment defeated 390-148.
Today much of the mainstream media is getting into a blather about UKIP, but there is another party who really needs to worry. We have heard next to nothing from the Greens, seemingly for months now. The post 2010 high point seems to have been a third...
The Guardian, which used to be a newspaper, has opened a data driven coffee shop in Shoreditch. Having checked the date, and confirmed it’s not April 1st, I am now utterly speechless. Luckily Alex Hern has summed it all up nicely here. Those sharks...
Tory party chairman hairman Grant Shapps and a colleague arrive at Downing Street yesterday evening. Thursday’s local elections will prove a major test for the Conservative campaigning infrastructure that Shapps overseas. Was the party chairman briefing...
