Labour and Reform were split in a free vote on legalising assisted dying.
- Professor, School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary University of London
The votes-at-16 story reveals a lot about how people actually consume politics.
There was only one case of a government losing a vote on a second reading in all of the 20th century.
If we care that MPs treat all their constituents fairly, we should support work that tests them on their biases – even the implicit ones.
At the start of this election, party members said they wanted to avoid another ‘coronation’, so why is the lead candidate being allowed to avoid scrutiny?
Voters and MPs alike describe constituency work as the most important part of the job.
You don’t want to vote for him. He grew up in London and went to Oxford, to study politics (of all things). He’s worked as a banker and as a political researcher. And he only moved here to become an MP…
It will be some time in the early hours of Friday morning until we discover whether Newark will join the list of shock by-election results. But whatever the outcome, we doubt it will be as remarkable as…
The Queen’s Speech marks the start of the fourth and final session of the 2010 Parliament. Final sessions are usually relatively uncontroversial. An approaching general election has traditionally calmed…
Just before Tony Blair became prime minister – what seems a lifetime ago now – several colleagues and I published a research paper looking at the possible scale of rebellion that might face him in government…
One of the few bits of political memorabilia I own is a copy of the parliamentary proceedings – the Hansard – of Tuesday, March 18, 2003, signed for me by the then chief whip, Hilary Armstrong. That day…
When more than 100 Conservative MPs vote for an amendment to their own government’s Queen’s Speech, it is more than a rebellion - it is historically unprecedented. And despite David Cameron’s insistence…
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