Here’s a superb clip of Nick Clegg in full, passionate flight as he attacks Sadiq Khan regarding links with the GMB union. There is some background to this story on order-order.com here. Here’s the exchange in full from Hansard: Sadiq Khan (Tooting) (Lab): The Deputy Prime Minister has previously endorsed the long-held convention that issues

              There has been argument over the Chief Secretary’s use of a £40 billion figure for the UK’s contribution to the  IMF yesterday on TV. I have been back and checked the Hansard record of the Committee I attended to hear the government’s case for an increased subscription on July 5th 2011. The Minis...

Enduring image of the day, and, I’ll warrant, its first entry in Hansard*, goes to Liberal Democrat MP Adrian Sanders for his contribution to yesterday’s emergency debate on phone hacking at the News of the World: …when one considers the Press Complaints Commission, the phrase “chocolate teapot”, or indeed the phrase “fishnet condom”, comes to

Two Liberal Democrat peers are among the six candidates standing for election as Speaker of the House of Lords. Baroness (Angela) Harris and Lord (Rupert) Redesdale have entered the contest following the announcement that the current Lord Speaker, Baroness Hayman, will not be seeking re-election. On Tuesday evening, the Hansard Society held a hustings in

Reading tonight’s Lords Hansard at bedtime (as you do), I’ve just found Paddy Ashdown’s speech from this evening’s debate on the House of Lords Reform Draft Bill. Viscount Astor (Conservative), who spoke next, said: My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Ashdown, has just given a speech that I am sure will be used by every

In my PMQs review for May 18th, I paraphrased this answer from David Cameron as recorded here in Hansard as follows: I am very grateful to the hon. Gentleman for allowing me to clear this up. When I read about Mr Britnell being my adviser, I was slightly puzzled, because I have never heard of

Flicking through the pages of Hansard one senses a little less hopelessness, a little less pointless partisanship, writes Matthew Engel

From yesterday’s Hansard: Michael Gove: … In Liberal Democrat-controlled Hull, any student in receipt of education maintenance allowance also receives a travel grant to cope with the full cost— Mr David Blunkett (Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough) (Lab): They won’t now. Michael Gove: I suspect they won’t if a Labour council takes power, but if people

Ayes to the right 323, Noes to the left 302. The Ayes have it, the Ayes have it. A very tight vote. Passes by more than the Lib Dem payroll vote of 18 but not by much. Names either way will be available when Hansard prints them. EDIT 1 – payroll vote diminished by 2

Or not, in this case, as the Lib Dem defence, which we first heard articulated by Nick Clegg last Tuesday at Portcullis House, is that they didn't win the election and thus didn't have a mandate to carry out their pledge to remove tuition fees. Clegg's articulation of this played well at the Hansard Society meeting, so much so that it has now, finally, become Lib Dem orthodoxy. Tom Brake used it a...