Total 14 Posts
Meet your MP — Lee Anderson
6 min read
Is there no end to MPs’ bullying, harassment, sexual misconduct, unaccountability or misbehaviour in general? How much do you actually even know about your local MPs?
This is Lee Anderson, Conservative MP for Ashfield.
Caroline Lucas and the heavy burden of being a party’s only member of parliament
5 min read
As the only Green parliamentarian, Caroline Lucas has served as a constituency MP but also as a representative of the hundreds of thousands of other people who vote for her party.
Tory MP faces court over alleged racial abuse at Bahrain event
2 min read
Conservative MP Bob Stewart is charged with a racially aggravated public order offence.
Tory MPs accept £20,000 from director of climate science denial group
5 min read
Leader of the Commons Penny Mordaunt is among those to have received funds from a firm owned by a former chair of the Global Warming Policy Foundation.
The £10k-a-day blunder: How MPs were duped by a fake firm
6 min read
Senior MPs agreed to work for a fictitious South Korean firm for £10,000 a day. Despite their actions being within proper conduct, receiving payment from a foreign entity could result in significant ethical and legal concerns for them.
Boris Johnson’s claim of a ‘mandate’ from the people isn’t accurate.
5 min read
Fact-check: The ministers’ revolt against Boris Johnson wasn’t anti-democratic – it’s representative democracy in action. As for his claim to have a mandate from the people, it is misguided.
Behind the scenes of Westminster – How government whips are losing their influence.
5 min read
Boris Johnson has burned so many commitments and bridges that it seems more than likely that the Tory whips will be unable to salvage them beyond 2022 even when using intimidation tactics to keep him in power.