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We have sore heads and tired feet this morning – though, for me, hearing the devastating results on the radio was tempered by David Attenbourgh’s 100th birthday and by recalling, as I do every year, that 8 May is VE Day. For a Forces’…
The subtitle of Nick Thomas-Symonds MP’s majestic biography of Harold Wilson – The Winner – suggests we would miss a trick if we failed to learn from the former Prime Minister. Whilst this does not mean imitating, it does mean looking…
The EU withdrawal bill is currently going through the motions of its long committee stage in the Lords. At the heart of the bill is the government’s understandable desire to retain, come Brexit day, all of the rules and regulations…
It all started so well. In order to avoid Cameron’s predicted “next big political scandal waiting to happen” the government promised a statutory register of lobbyists. It took a long time – consultation lasting over 12 months, then silence…
Ever since moving my amendment to the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill to require letting agents to belong to an Ombudsman Scheme, I have been overwhelmed by messages of support from landlords, tenants and friends of people scorched by…
