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Tonight, the next flashpoint — a vote on fracking, drilling into the land to extract gas — was turned by downing street into a serious test of loyalty in the government itself. division, clear the lobby! compelling conservatives to back it will face being kicked out of the parliamentary party — a weak government attempting a show of strength and then seemingly changing its mind. in the voting lobbies, confusion, tory mps not even knowing the consequence for them of their vote. and afterwar...

Tonight, the next flashpoint — a vote on fracking, drilling into the land to extract gas — was turned by downing street into a serious test of loyalty in the government itself. division, clear the lobby! compelling conservatives to back it will face being kicked out of the parliamentary party — a weak government attempting a show of strength and then seemingly changing its mind. in the voting lobbies, confusion, tory mps not even knowing the consequence for them of their vote. and afterwar...

As home secretary. he stepped up after suella braverman stepped down, resigning over two data breaches. but have a look at her resignation letter. she wrote to the prime minister — "pretending we havent made mistakes, carrying on as if everyone cant see that we have made them and hoping that things will magically come right is not serious politics. i have made a mistake. i accept responsibility. i resign. she was hinting at what some conservative mps were saying privately and publicly last nig...

Hoyle said i remind members that the behaviour code applies to them as well as to other members of our parliamentary community. the shadow health secretary wes streeting appeared on bbc breakfast earlier on and he has been reflecting on the scenes in parliament last night. i think people have seen on the screen is the degree of chaos in parliament, the extent to which a stable government has broken down, and even at the height of some of the biggest political dramas, i�*ve beenin the biggest p...

On what the situation is with the chief whip. there has been an element of confusion over whether the vote was a confidence vote or not. it was a great victory today. chief whip, great credit to her. but people being manhandled into the voting lobbies? - chief whip did a great job today. they both remain in post, seemingly with the backing of the deputy prime minister, who was on her way to a gathering of senior conservatives at a private members club. but its the prime ministers position that i...

And it is incredibly frustrating. i think its also... its frustrating in terms of all the things that you can do in government, but also frustrating watching them right now, because it feels like they are damaging everybody. were going to talk about politics, as it were, in a while. but just talking about you, do you ever feel, as these years have passed on, years of opposition, "maybe i had my moment, maybe its time to do something else"7 and seeing your husband ed develop a completely new life...

And seeing your husband ed develop a completely new life, are there moments you think, not, "i could go on strictly" because i suspect thats not quite your thing. but are there moments where you think, "theres another life i could have had"? 0h, he is having a whale of a time, isnt he? so, yes, he is having a great time. and there are times, especially, you know, when we have a series of votes that we just keep losing and we just keep walking round in circles in the voting lobbies and dutifully ...

0h, he is having a whale of a time, isnt he? so, yes, he is having a great time. and there are times, especially, you know, when we have a series of votes that we just keep losing and we just keep walking round in circles in the voting lobbies and dutifully voting on something that we are making no difference on at all, there are times when you think, yes, other people are having an awful lot more fun! other people, she says. point to ed! i was reading, which i didnt know, that youd rent once th...

We know in the old part of the palace, having come through the tunnel from our office on this side of the main road. we were heading towards the voting lobbies, and what we now know i think it was three shots rang out. i was 50, 60 yards behind my colleagues who were headed in the same direction. >> reporter: you could hear thosedistinctly? >> well we heard what we now know were shots and colleagues in front of us turned and run presumably on the advice of the security services. we were told to ...

Been taken to the hospital and will make a recovery in time. we can also tell you that a vehicle flight into the gates of the palace of westminster where the prime minister was holding or just finished voting. >> apologies, you can imagine there are some communication difficulties in a very crowded westminster right now. if you are just switching on, information continues to come in about what police at the moment believe is a terrorist related incident on the day of prime ministers questions. t...