John Junor News Today

Cancel me, burn me in effigy, do what you will, but I hope members of the Garrick Club will find the courage to uphold a tradition almost two centuries old.

THE WELL-KNOWN phrase, “Go big or go home”, could have well been crafted as a challenge for midwife Florence Pink of Bonham Crest in Exchange, near Ocho Rios. And how well she would have risen to that challenge! At 84-years-old, Nurse Pink, as she...

Nine nominated amid big talk in Manchester Central

Sitting in the Chamber late on Monday afternoon for the Lords debate on the UK-Rwanda treaty, I was impressed by the standard of oratory. Most of the best speeches came from those – Lords Goldsmith (the Labour one), Kerr of Kinlochard, Anderson of Ipswich – who argued that the treaty was not, in itself, proof

Rishi Sunaks appointment of David Cameron to the Lords and the foreign secretary role raised concerns about how he could be held to account by elected politicians. But a committee has found a potential solution - based on an almost forgotten tradition.

There have been questions about how the foreign secretary would be held to account given he is no longer an MP.

The Procedure Committee is reportedly set to recommend the Foreign Secretary appear at the Bar of the House of Commons to be scrutinised.

Senior MPs are considering invoking the historic procedure of calling Lord Cameron before the Bar of the House to ensure that he is fully accountable to the elected Commons.

RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: These fragile snowflakes clearly believe they should be above the kind of robust criticism which is essential in any properly functioning democracy.

As he faced his 30th birthday he addressed the Cambridge Union in hair-raisingly ingenuous terms: ‘My great problem in...