There have been dramatic scenes this afternoon in the House of Commons as the government tried desperately to prevent MPs having the opportunity to vote on an amendment calling on […]
After desperate government scrambling to prevent the amendment being tabled at all, an amendment to the ‘Business of the House’ motion has been supported by MPs by a margin of […]
On Wednesday night, Theresa May’s government suffered a humiliating defeat in its attempt to block an amendment to Philip Hammond’s Finance (no.3) Bill that would tie the government’s hands on […]
Last week, the Tories performed a craven surrender when they accepted several opposition amendments to its Budget bill without even attempting to defeat them. The government was running scared after […]
The government, deprived of its cobbled-together majority in the Commons by the decision of the DUP to abandon its ‘confidence and supply’ arrangement with May’s shambolic Tories, have collapsed in […]
Theresa May faced a meeting with the Tories’ ‘1922 committee’ this evening – the body that by tradition makes and discards Tory leaders. Even though some political commentators had touted […]
The various Brexit-related motions submitted to Labour’s conference have been ‘composited’ down to a single version that will be debated and voted upon by delegates – and it contains a […]
Theresa May escaped a likely fall from office over her trade bill this week by the skin of her teeth, thanks to unprecedented, cowardly surrenders to her hard right fringe […]
Theresa May scraped through yet another day of abject Brexit and general chaos on Monday – but in doing so demonstrated a level of cowardice that reached such unprecedented levels […]
Tory MP Dominic Grieve was among a number of much-anticipated but ultimately non-rebelling MPs who accepted a meaningless government concession – something they would have had to do anyway – […]