Select committees: Cooper and Benn keep positions as Greenwood and Reeves win
Yvette Cooper and Hilary Benn won their elections for influential select committees uncontested, while Rachel Reeves and Lilian…
Brexit select committee
Benn’s Brexit committee reveals details of first investigation
The Brexit select committee has announced its first witnesses in its investigations into EU withdrawal. In his first witness…
What we learnt from Benn and Cooper’s victories – and why it matters for the PLP
I am not sure they were always this high-profile. In the world of Corbyn’s Labour, however, everything has…
Yvette Cooper and Hilary Benn win race to chair key Commons committees
Yvette Cooper has edged out Caroline Flint and Chuka Umunna in the battle for the chair’s role on…
Benn takes on Hoey as battle to run Brexit committee echoes referendum race
The race to become the first chair of the select committee set up to scrutinise the Government’s approach…
