I have enjoyed reading Chris Mullin’s A View from the Foothills, his diaries from 1999 to 2005, covering his two stints as a junior minister. They are very revealing as well as entertaining. I enjoyed his comment when he first became a junior minister: “I am beseiged with invitations to address conferences organised by obscure…
I have spent the weekend at the annual meeting of the Study of Parliament Group. It is my thirty-second year of consecutive attendance. The Group brings together academics with an interest in Parliament (or parliaments) and officials (clerks, librarians etc) of both Houses of Parliament, as well as some officials from devolved and other assemblies. This…
