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PMQs on Progress Articles

Passports, schools – and Speedos

‘I might have nightmares about the prime minister modelling Speedos on his world tour’, was Labour MP Pamela Nash’s reaction to David Cameron today who was on bumptious form, boasting about his trade trip to China, where he had been pushing said Speedos to the Chinese...
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Turn the Tory bandwagon into a tumbril

The Tories looked in triumphal mood at prime minister’s questions today. Unemployment is going down. The number of Romanians and Bulgarians looking for jobs in the United Kingdom has fallen since they were allowed to come and work freely in the country. And the...
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Post-Easter sugar rush PMQs

Today was the first PMQs after the Easter break. MPs must have been suffering a delayed sugar rush from all the Easter eggs, because the backbenches were particularly raucous. With GDP up 0.8 per cent in the last quarter and unemployment down, it was expected that...
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Holding the Tory line

Anyone who thinks that women make more consensual politicians only had to watch shadow deputy prime minister Harriet Harman going for deputy prime minister Nick Clegg today in parliament to be disabused of the idea. David Cameron is on an official visit to Israel and...
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Half empty benches

Half empty benches

Sep 10, 2014 |

Lots of members of parliament were missing from the House of Commons today. The green benches were half empty. It was...