The 1922 coup: How influential Tory backbenchers are mobilising against Boris Johnson
Executive committee members Sir Graham Brady Described the Government’s Covid measures as a “disastrous assault on liberty” and voted against vaccine passports in December 2021. Warned the…
Scotland Yard to meet with William Wragg over Downing Street blackmail claims
Ben Howlett, a former Tory MP, claimed on Friday that an ex-whip warned him funds would be withheld from his constituency over a link road project if…
Scotland Yard to meet with William Wragg over No 10 blackmail claims
Ben Howlett, a former Tory MP, claimed on Friday that an ex-whip warned him funds would be withheld from his constituency over a link road project if…
Dear MPs: the police can’t solve your political troubles
William Wragg is not the trailblazing reformer of parliament that he thinks he is. A similar challenge to the authority and practices of the party whips was…
War on the whips as Tory rebels threaten police action amid blackmail claims
Mr Wragg also alerted Sir Lindsay Hoyle to the allegations, with the Commons Speaker warning ministers that the claims, if proven, would amount to contempt of Parliament….
Whipping MPs can be a ruthless sport, but it is entirely necessary
It is always fascinating to see the role of Westminster whips discussed in the public domain, being a former whip myself. The dark arts of the Whips’…
New dodgy data row as UKHSA warned over ‘implausible’ Covid statistics
When UKHSA did publish a methodology memo outlining the modelling behind the claim, on Dec 16, it revealed that the modelling had been abandoned because it was…