Starmer urges Prime Minister: “We need to call time on the Tory sleaze scandal”
Countries agreed a watered-down climate deal as COP26 ended this weekend. India and China managed to force a last-minute change…
Owen Paterson
Labour selects Ben Wood as candidate for North Shropshire by-election
Labour members have selected Ben Wood as their parliamentary candidate for the North Shropshire by-election, taking place on…
50 Tory MPs earned £1.7m in consultancy fees this year alone, analysis shows
New analysis of the parliamentary register of interests shows that 50 Conservative MPs have earned more than £1.7m…
The second jobs row is an opportunity for Labour, but not a clear open goal
Boris Johnson is having a bad couple of weeks. The Owen Paterson row, which saw him eventually step…
Starmer on PM: “Government corruption – there is no other word for it”
Below is the full text of Keir Starmer’s speech today on parliamentary standards. Thank you, Mr Speaker. We…
Boris Johnson loses opinion poll lead amid Conservative sleaze scandal
Research carried out partly during the ongoing sleaze row sparked by the Owen Paterson scandal has shown the…
MP lobbying scandal: Starmer calls on Johnson to “answer, apologise and act”
Keir Starmer has called on Boris Johnson to “answer for his mistakes, apologise to the country and take…
Sunday shows: Labour calls on Boris Johnson to “consider his position”
The Andrew Marr Show Labour leader Keir Starmer described Tory government behaviour as “corrupt” in light of the…
Sleaze and by-elections: Labour rules out standing aside in North Shropshire
A whirlwind 24 hours saw the government spend political capital to defend a particular Conservative who had been caught bang…
Owen Paterson resigns as MP amid paid lobbying scandal and U-turn
Owen Paterson, the Tory MP engulfed in a paid lobbying scandal, has quit parliament after a chaotic 24…
