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 […]
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May back to square one as Speaker rules govt’s trade bill is subject to rejection by Lords
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 […]
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 […]
The 4 Labour MPs who ‘just saved Theresa May’
Theresa May survived a serious threat this evening when an amendment to the government’s trade bill was defeated by 307 votes to 301. The amendment, tabled by Tory remainers livid […]
Labour’s statement on May’s chicken-run attempt to shut down Parliament to save her job
Incompetent PM Theresa May went to extraordinary lengths yesterday to placate her party’s extreme-Brexit ultras – whipping her MPs to defeat her own proposals. She then promptly tabled a motion to send […]
May running scared of democracy as she tries to shut down Parliament 5 days early
After squeaking through her Brexit bill this evening in which she fended off a rebellion by the hard-Brexit fringe of her party by surrendering completely to their demands and then […]
#WheresBoris? Johnson AWOL for Heathrow vote exposes May weakness again
The media are widely reporting that Foreign Secretary and former London mayor Boris Johnson is ‘ducking’ a key vote takes place on the expansion of Heathrow airport. So great […]
Byrne’s Hodge Hill CLP swings overwhelmingly left
The SKWAWKBOX reported in the early hours on the near-clean sweep last night for the left in London’s Hampstead and Kilburn CLP (constituency Labour party), which elected or nominated left […]