At the end of May I blogged about the three working groups which emerged from a seminar given by the Lord Speaker last year on how we might strengthen the way we do business in this House; our procedures, processes of scrutiny and internal governance arrangements. The three groups, (all included volunteers from all sides…
This post relates to Baroness Deech’s last post and the excellent comments it is attracting. I too mourn the loss from parliament of Evan Harris, not because he was a GP but because he had a clear thinking liberal mind and was willing to stand up for a number of unpopular causes with eloquence and…
Back in the Chamber Tuesday for the first time since the election to hear the first speeches on the Loyal Address. Swearing in first of all…and I remembered to bring my writ of summons; the two people behind me forgot theirs, but the Clerks are well prepared and dug out copies for the forgetful. It…
So hello again…I’ve been rather lonely over there in Lords in Purdah with Lord Norton plowing his own furrow; I hope we didn’t lose you all. Goodness it was good telly last night wasn’t it? Gordon Brown looked more cheerful leaving No 10 than he ever did while in it and both he and David…
Sitting here in Tuscany on a glorious spring day it’s hard to worry about wash-up or indeed the forthcoming election. We bloggers have given some thought as to how we should tackle parliamentary purdah and the upshot of it was that we shall steer clear of outright political issues until the silly season is all…
