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Angela Eagle MP Articles

Will they ever stop banging on about Europe?

I began Business of the House questions by raising the three defeats we inflicted on the government in the House of Lords this week on their plans for judicial review. A brace of ex-Tory cabinet ministers backed our amendments, while a former lord chief justice...

Less Catherine Tate and more Little Britain

I began Business of the House Questions this morning by expressing solidarity and condolences with our sister parliament in Ottawa following the terrorist attack yesterday. This was an attack on democracy and it will not succeed. During Business Questions last week...

Why we must listen to disengaged voters

A speech to the Electoral Reform Society  Check against delivery It is good to be here this afternoon with the Electoral Reform Society, and good to see so many of you here. In my remarks I want to address the democratic decline that we have faced in our country, and...

Coalition chaos on AstraZeneca

This week’s business questions was probably the last one before this session of parliament ends. The House will be ‘proroguing’ – breaking up until the Queen’s speech – next week, nearly a week earlier than the government originally planned. I began today’s business...