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Gary Gibbon
After Thursday’s vote against military involvement in Syria, Britain will have to re-think its role in the world. But many of those involved failed to anticipate a defeat for the coalition government.
Siobhan Kennedy
Matt Brittin, Google’s boss in northern Europe, will be showing a humble face in front of MPs this morning. But it is the taxman who should face the toughest questions.
MPs have warned that Pakistan gets a lot of British cash, but doesn’t collect enough from its own citizens. Are they right?
Gary Gibbon
With a cabinet reshuffle on the cards and calls from within the party to quit, the Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg faces tough decisions. Gary Gibbon reports on how he fared in front of colleagues
Victoria Macdonald
Victoria Macdonald blogs on the death of Lord Morris and his impact on disability legislation in the UK.
Jon Snow
In the aftermath of the Olympics, the discernable spirit in the country is one of pulling together rather than finding grounds upon which to disagree.
Michael Crick
Relations within the coalition grew significantly worse today, with Conservative sources in Whitehall admitting defeat on the coalition’s plans for Lords reform.
Jon Snow
MPs on the Treasury Select Committee have a chance this afternoon to do a little to remedy their own disparate efforts to question Barclays’ Bob Diamond. Diamond walked all over them.
Gary Gibbon
Gary Gibbon blogs on the rising political tension within the three main political parties ahead of the vote on Lords reform.
Gary Gibbon
As Parliament returns after the recess, one 2010 intake Tory MP tells Gary Gibbon he is thinking of getting a bulk order of blue nose-pegs to wear as he voted for measures he loathed but which Lib Dem coalition partners had secured in negotiations.
Gary Gibbon
The claws were out in the House of Commons over David Cameron’s crackdown on an MP’s attempt to ban the use of live circus animals, as Gary Gibbon writes.
Gary Gibbon
Nick Clegg gives an indication that the Government’s timetable on NHS reform may slip.
Jon Snow
It’s been a hot news period. Aung San Suu Kyi’s release from house arrest and the freedom of Paul and Rachel Chandler from their kidnap ordeal in Somalia. So spare a thought for the future governance of the United Kingdom…or not.
Gary Gibbon
Gary Gibbon blogs on how MPs are expressing regrets, but few apologies as they prepare to retire from the Commons in the wake of the expenses scandal.
Jon Snow
Jon Snow blogs on the aftermath of the expense scandal and the call for real reform in the Houses of power.
