Showing posts with label Michael Martin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Michael Martin. Show all posts
Thursday, July 21, 2022

Bernard Weatherill, the best Commons speaker I have seen

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Embed from Getty Images The speakership of the Commons tends to be appointed on the basis of Buggins' Turn. Which is fine until there is...
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Monday, February 28, 2022

28 February in Liberal England history

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So what has this blog been concerned with on what is usually the last day of February? 2021 Rosalind Franklin , the neglected pioneer of our...
Tuesday, December 08, 2015

Keith Vaz eyes the speaker's chair

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View image | gettyimages.com "Keith Vaz has two ambitions. He is hoping that he will get a knighthood, and he would like to ...
Tuesday, September 02, 2014

The problem with John Bercow

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#88495982 / gettyimages.com Back in March 2010, when John Bercow had been in the Speaker's chair for less than a year, I wrot...
Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Eight years in eight posts

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Memes were all the rage in the early days of blogging, but they seem to have died out. Which is a shame, as they were one way new bloggers ...
Monday, March 19, 2012

Chris Bryant reminds us that our liberties are not safe with Labour

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One of the least creditable episodes of the last parliament was the arrest of the shadow minister Damian Green and the subsequent search of ...
Monday, February 08, 2010

Why don't the Tories come clean on Lord Ashcroft's tax status?

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Sir George Young has always seemed one of the more decent Conservatives. I felt sorry for him when Michael Martin was hoisted into the Speak...
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Sunday, May 17, 2009

Daily Telegraph: Officials colluded over MPs' mortgage claims

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Doing the best to speed the Speaker on his way, tomorrow's Daily Telegraph reports: Parliamentary authorities, overseen by Michael Mart...

Mr Speaker Martin replies to Nick Clegg

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Friday, May 15, 2009

Guardian says Speaker Martin to go before next election

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From the Guardian website this evening: Michael Martin will stand down as Speaker by the next gener al election after senior Labour figures...
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House Points: The worst Speaker of modern times

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My House Points column from Liberal Democrat News. Speaker cornered The 19th century journalist Walter Bagehot famously divided the British ...
Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Speaker Martin on the brink

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The Daily Mail says that Michael Martin will face a no confidence next week. And the Guardian says that his attempts to prevent informatio...
Monday, May 11, 2009

Commons Table Office approves text of motion calling on Speaker to quit

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Following today's embarrassing performance by Michael Martin, the Tory MP Douglas Carswell has put down a Commons motion calling on him...
Saturday, January 24, 2009

The police and Daniel Kawczynski

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Michael Crick has more on the police visit to Daniel Kawczynski office. He writes: The reaction to the story has been pretty unanimous - th...
Monday, December 08, 2008

Should the Speaker be popular with ministers?

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I think not. A good Speaker will stand up for backbench rights and thus make himself or herself unpopular with the government. So a Guardian...
Friday, December 05, 2008

House Points: Speaker Martin and the Five Members

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Today's House Points column from Liberal Democrat News . In the event, Mr Speaker did not surprise us. Open House Settle down, class. Op...
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Wednesday, December 03, 2008

Michael Martin blames the Serjeant At Arms

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Not a very edifying performance, was it? Fraser Nelson at the Spectator Coffee House blog asks some searching questions.
Saturday, November 29, 2008

Speaker Martin: "He's Spartacus"

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Speaker Lenthall, 1642 "May it please your Majesty, I have neither eyes to see nor tongue to speak in this place but as this House is p...
Tuesday, June 03, 2008

Shropshire MP barred from taking cow to Palace of Westminster

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I don't make these stories up, you know. This one is in the Shropshire Star : Shropshire MP Daniel Kawczynski had a beef with the Common...
Friday, February 29, 2008

House Points: Mr Speaker Martin

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My House Points column from today's Liberal Democrat News . Mr Speaker Martin It’s true. Much of the whispering campaign against the Spe...