The Tory leader has told the Financial Times that he is prepared to cut the number of MPs by about sixty and will do so as a first term priority. He told the FT that “the House of Commons could...

David Cameron intends to reduce the House of Commons by 10 per cent, in a plan to redraw the parliamentary map that could make it easier for the Tories to win elections

MPs are planning a year-long investigation into the complexion of the Commons amid worries that its members are seen as a narrow, self-serving elite who bear no relation to the population as a whole. Harriet Harman, leader of the Commons, told the Guardian the house would lose legitimacy if people saw it as populated by MPs who did not relate to others' lives. Figures show the Commons is too ...

MPs have made their case to succeed Michael Martin as Speaker of the House of Commons.

Two new Tory MPs have been publicly named and shamed in today’s papers for getting so drunk that – allegedly – one fell to the floor of the House of Commons bar, while another was rude to a Commons official. Mark Reckless (for it is he) has ‘fessed up to his own drunkenness, including being

The House of Commons authorities are stamping down on MPs who say anything remotely controversial on their blogs. The BBC reports that Labour MPs Paul Flynn and Derek Wyatt have been taken to task, not because their blogs are overtly partisan (although they would be the first to admit that they are) but becasue in Flynn's case he had criticised or poked fun at other MPs (including Labour ones...

MPs order watchdog responsible for House of Commons allowances to relax tough new regime.

The UK Youth Parliament is set to use the House of Commons Chamber over the summer recess, despite opposition from some MPs. Quite how they can object to it, I don’t know. The Commons Chamber sits unused for so much of the time - whenever MPs are on any of their extremely long holidays - and

A Labour backbencher has become the first of his party's MPs to call for the resignation of Michael Martin the Commons Speaker over the police raid on the offices of Damian Green the Tory immigration spokesman.

Here's one for anyone organising a Westminster trivia pub quiz. Who was the last peer allowed to address MPs in the House of Commons chamber? According to a report published today, it was the Duke of Wellington, in 1814. He was allowed in so that MPs could express their thanks to him for his service in the Napoleonic wars. The MPs on the business select committee want Lord Mandelson to be all...