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The noble lord is very- familiar with the approach that were taking to - addressing online harms, which we hope will be really. comprehensive and effective. i will take his suggestion back to the department, | but i cant reassure him i today at the dispatch box whether we can progress it. lady barran. youre watching tuesday in parliament with me, david cornock. scotland will ease covid restrictions from next week but more cautiously than england. mandatory use of face coverings will remain in pl...

In the lords about care home residents, lord bethell, wasnt there to reply. of lady penn, whos a whip that is, one of the conservative business managers was at the despatch box instead. a labour peer wondered why. the noble lady, the minister is doing a very excellentjob answering the questions and it does raise the question as to why the minister responsible, lord bethell, is in hiding. is it because unlike the noble lady, he is one of the guilty people responsible for the care home scandal? or...

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What ive outlined pretty consistently, actually, over the last period is that we are very clear with the minister at the dispatch box. as ive said myself, the current position of the protocol is not sustainable. he himself has also said this. it is causing issues for businesses and consumers, citizens in northern ireland, and we need to rectify that. we need to ensure that that gets corrected, and the prime minister has been very clear, we take nothing off the table, and we do want to get it don...

MP for Ellesmere Port The need for greater scrutiny of financial transactions involving MPs was first established about 30 years ago following the notorious ‘Cash the Questions’ controversy involving, among others, ex-Cheshire MP Neil Hamilton which led to former Prime Minister Sir John Major instigating the Nolan Committee to review standards in public life. The need for, and importance of, accurate declarations in the Register of Members Interests in the Houses of Parliament was reinf...

Alan Duncan                                                                                    William Collins £25 Rating: Another week, another big fat book of ‘waspish’ political diaries by a figure most people would struggle to put a face to. A few months ago we had the ‘waspish’ Diary Of An MP’s Wife by Sasha Swire. And a few months before that, we were treated to the ‘waspish’ memoirs of the former Speaker, John Bercow. All three au...

PMQs Sketch: Eyes popping, Boris Johnson looked to the Speaker for help - but Sir Keir Starmer was about to fall from his high horse Joe Murphy Starmer faces questions after denying past Brexit remarks put to him by PM Nothing cheers up MPs more than seeing a much-admired colleague fall off his high horse.  Today’s downfall was of Sir Keir Starmer - and it was a vintage day for quaffers of parliamentary schadenfreude.   It all started swimmingly for Labour’s leader, back f...

MP takes Greenfield station accessibility issue to Parliament Date published: 02 February 2021 Debbie Abrahams at Greenfield Station Oldham East and Saddleworth MP, Debbie Abrahams, has taken her campaign to make Greenfield station fully accessible to Parliament. During Transport Questions in the House of Commons on Thursday, Ms Abrahams asked a government transport minister directly: “When will my disabled constituents get a fully accessible station?” “Greenfield station in my consti...

30 January 2021 • 12:01am Stella Kyriakides, the EUs health commissioner, who said of AstraZenecas vaccine supply: "We reject the logic of first come, first served. That might work at the neighbourhood butchers but not on our contracts" Credit: Johanna Geron /Reuters SIR – Reading between the lines, it looks as though the AstraZeneca plant in Belgium is having scale-up problems. Hence its “best efforts” fall well short of the EU’s belated order. With our astounding success at securin...