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- The Commons Weekly #6
The Prime Minister almost succeeded in breaking PMQs on 18th March. Backbencher Andrew Snowden (Fylde, Conservative) summed up the problem towards the end of the pointless session, saying : “Every week the Prime Minister comes here and reads out this… Read more: The Commons Weekly #6 - Slava Ukraini !
Committee Room 14. Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the President of Ukraine visited London today and addressed MPs and Lords in the relatively workmanlike surroundings of Committee Room 14. This visit seemed far more important that Mr Trump’s latest tantrum across the ocean.… Read more: Slava Ukraini ! - The Week in UK Politics #48
Papers & Processes. The week began with the next episode of the already boring Mandelson affair. After the drama of the Humble Address, the release of the files related to his errant Lordship’s appointment proved simultaneously more mundane and yet… Read more: The Week in UK Politics #48 - The Commons Weekly #5
PMQs really have become a farce. In other news, we have decided to present The Commons Weekly in reverse date order starting with the most recent news from that cockpit of brilliance. At PMQs the Speaker briefly awoke from his… Read more: The Commons Weekly #5 - HMS Dragon
Puts to sea 16:10 Tuesday 10th March. Enough said. Check us out on insta @theworldofukpolitics - The Week in UK Politics #47
Preparation, hesitation, correction, reposition. This past week has seen a (leaky) raft of claims about the Government’s preparations for the US-Israeli attack on Iran, hesitation and uncertainty in response, hardly disguised at all by post hoc (and very definitely therefore… Read more: The Week in UK Politics #47 - The Commons Weekly #4
Special education: In trying to set out the Government’s proposed changes to SEND policy Bridget Phillipson (Houghton & Sunderland South, Labour) Secretary of State for Education, outlined how a “new” £4bn will be spent on Individual Support Plans over the… Read more: The Commons Weekly #4 - The Week in UK Politics #46
Led, legalistically, from frying pan to fire! The scandal that died, a by-election that roared and a war that outwitted Starmer within 24 hours. The week began where the previous tailed off: Epstein adjacency, Mountbatten-Windsor noise and Mandelson hi-jinx.This filled… Read more: The Week in UK Politics #46 - The Week in UK Politics #45
Succession is not a strategy! Starmer does not seem to have even tried to stabilise the No. 10 operation, he merely changed the cast list. The resignation cycle that began with Morgan McSweeney continues to read less like renewal and… Read more: The Week in UK Politics #45 - The Week in UK Politics #44
Implosion as “Governance.” Last week ended with Morgan McSweeney gone. This week has been about what that departure did not fix. The McSweeney Non-Solution McSweeney’s resignation was supposed to draw a line under the “judgement” critique that had begun to… Read more: The Week in UK Politics #44
