The 20 Tory rebels who actually rebelled this evening
This evening, the government lost its attempt to defeat an amendment to its finance bill to force it to ask Parliament for permission for spending on any preparations for a […]
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Close-up video of May’s face as she faces Irish vote-cheat grilling is revealing
Theresa May is in Ireland today – and faced a grilling from Irish journalists about the Tories’ ‘pairing breach’ vote-cheating scandal. It must have been a shock to her system […]
Watch May lie to Parliament to claim pairing breach vote-cheating was ‘in error’
Theresa May lied to Parliament yesterday. During Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs), she told MPs that Chief Whip Julian Smith and Conservative party chair Brandon Lewis broke pairing – in other […]
Whip Smith’s allies: “it’s ok, he didn’t know pairing was with pregnant MP”
Tory Whip Julian Smith is under huge and growing pressure to resign – or be sacked – for pressuring Tory MPs to break their ‘pairing’ promise to absent MPs by […]
Huge pressure on May to sack Whip, Chair for ‘pairing’ treachery
Theresa May is under huge and mounting pressure to sack Chief Whip Julian Smith and Tory Chair Brandon Lewis. Smith has been exposed pressuring Tory MPs to break their ‘pairing’ […]
Explosive video: Leadsom – May knew Griffiths accused of groping when she appointed him
The SKWAWKBOX reported earlier that Theresa May was accused of ‘betraying women’ when she broke a vow to MPs on maternity leave that she would ‘pair’ them with one of […]
Theresa May’s betrayal to win vote – it’s not her first offence…
As the SKWAWKBOX just published, Theresa May broke a solemn promise this evening to save her skin, by having ‘paired’ MPs – who were not supposed to vote because they […]
Outed: desperate May betrays promise to maternity MPs to win crunch votes
Theresa May scraped through a vital vote tonight that – after a start to the week in which she whipped MPs to defeat her own EU proposals to placate her […]
May broke ancient protocols to defeat Windrush transparency. What was she so desperate to hide?
The Tories have already created outrage and a great deal of suspicion by their decision to ‘whip’ Wednesday’s vote against Labour’s call for documents and communications about May’s racist ‘hostile […]
The 205 Lab MPs who supported Corbyn call for parliament to approve military action
Today in the House of Commons, after a debate in which a number of centrist back-benchers again disgraced themselves, two hundred and five of Labour’s two hundred and fifty nine […]