Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle slams Rishi Sunak’s Budget PR drive complaining about pre-briefing and saying Chancellor shouldn’t be ‘dashing off’ for press conference Chancellor Rishi Sunak will deliver his eagerly-awaited Budget at 12.30 today Much of the detail of the Budget has been released ahead of time by Treasury Lindsay Hoyle said ‘tradition matters’ and … Read more
Watching the fragile new lives before me, I feel an overwhelming sense of awe. Every breath seems like a miracle, and I’m all too aware their very survival depends on me. Except the newborns I cradle in my hands have feathers and the patter of tiny feet are very tiny indeed. This is because the … Read more
Watching the fragile new lives before me, I feel an overwhelming sense of awe. Every breath seems like a miracle, and I’m all too aware their very survival depends on me. Except the newborns I cradle in my hands have feathers and the patter of tiny feet are very tiny indeed. This is because the … Read more
For Patricia Rodrigues, the first warning that the double-fronted mansion on her street was falling down came at 12.10am on Tuesday when police knocked on the door. Just seven doors down, the five-storey, £8.5million property had crumbled under the night sky — and she had slept through it. ‘We were woken by banging on the … Read more
For Patricia Rodrigues, the first warning that the double-fronted mansion on her street was falling down came at 12.10am on Tuesday when police knocked on the door. Just seven doors down, the five-storey, £8.5million property had crumbled under the night sky — and she had slept through it. ‘We were woken by banging on the … Read more
Timeline of the PM’s lockdown decision Friday, 7am: Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab begins a round of broadcast interviews defending the government’s ‘Tiered’ system of local lockdowns. Friday 2.30pm: Sir Patrick Vallance underlines SAGE’s support for a national lockdown at a briefing with reporters, suggesting it was getting late to arrest the spike in cases before Christmas. … Read more
‘Boris talks a lot’: Speaker Lindsay Hoyle poses with his PARROT named after the PM (who also makes an appearance as a DOG TOY) and reveals Labour leader Starmer could be next to join his parliamentary menagerie, saying ‘it would be nice to have a Keir’ By David Wilcock, Whitehall Correspondent For Mailonline Published: 17:43 … Read more
In a series of video calls Sir Lindsay Hoyle, 63, advised MPs to avoid commuting into the coronavirus ‘riddled’ House of Commons, especially if they are at-risk – 24 MPs are 70 and over.
Desperate Matt Hancock hinted at concessions tonight as he faced the fury of Tory MPs over plunging the country into a new coronavirus lockdown. The Health Secretary was repeatedly assailed by MPs as he updated the Commons on the day that another raft of new rules and punishments came into force. He said restrictions will … Read more
Speaker Lindsay Hoyle is expected to save Boris Johnson’s blushes by refusing to call a rebel Tory amendment on coronavirus curbs this week – despite more MPs joining the revolt. The PM is struggling to quell growing fury from his own MPs over the restrictions and the lack of parliamentary scrutiny. There are claims that … Read more