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Tuesday 2nd May Oral Questions – Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office MPs will question ministers from the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office about a variety of issues. This will be the first opportunity for MPs to scrutinise FCDO ministers at … Continue reading This Week in parliament: Week commencing 1 May
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This will be a weekly feature where contributor Max Booth outlines the week ahead in parliament. Monday 24th April Non-Domestic Rating Bill – Second Reading This bill proposes: • Business rates valuations made more frequent, from 3 years to 5 … Continue reading This week in parliament: Week commencing 24 April
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Boris Johnson’s premiership started off on a promising note thanks to a huge electoral victory in 2019; now his reputation is at a new low having been forced to resign by a party he once led and now grilled in front of a parliamentary privileges committee Continue reading Partygate: “Clocks go forward, Boris goes backwards”
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This week seems to have thrown up similar topics of conversation to last; the SNP’s leadership, and Keir Starmer, among other things. The Labour leader, after ruling out Corbyn’s return to the Parliamentary Labour Party last week, is forging on … Continue reading This week in British Politics #4: A guide through the headlines (Monday 20 Feb to Friday 24 Feb)
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You may have seen the protest that occurred in Rotherham last Saturday, outside of a Holiday Inn. There were two protests in fact. One was an anti-immigration protest, which sparked the event, and the second was a counter-protest. I am … Continue reading Far-right ideas are influencing our young people: the education and diversity of experience that university brings can help combat this
Two big events that will have significant ramifications have taken place this week, both concerning party leaders from the 2019 general election. Sir Keir Starmer has announced that Jeremy Corbyn, who led the Labour Party in the 2019 election, will … Continue reading This week in British Politics #3: A guide through the headlines (Monday 13 Feb to Friday 17 Feb)
This week, unbelievably, something Sheffield-related is front page news and it is my great pleasure to fill you in on it, though I’m sure many of you will have read all about it already. Some of you will probably remember … Continue reading This week in British Politics #2: A guide through the headlines (Monday 6 Feb to Friday 10 Feb)
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What has happened this week in British Politics? Find out below! This will be a weekly series, so stay tuned… The first thing you might have noticed is that everyone was on strike. On Wednesday, February 1st, members of the … Continue reading This week in British Politics #1: A guide through the headlines (Monday 30 Jan to Friday 3 Feb)
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The House of Lords is and remains a beacon of expertise and independence in our political system and acts as an effective scrutinising machine to the government. Reform should keep this in mind… Continue reading Starmer misses the point of the House of Lords in his attempt to attack Johnson
For those of us who dislike the Tories, and specifically Boris Johnson’s current cabal of rule breakers and liars, the defection of Bury South MP Christian Wakeford to the Labour party is a welcome development. However, for those of … Continue reading There must be a by-election in Bury South.
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