Maurice Frankel (London, Campaign for Freedom of Information): The following message was sent out by the Campaign for Freedom of Information today: Dear Friend We are writing to ask you to write to or email  your MP as a matter of urgency opposing the government’s attempt to remove MPs’ and Peers’ expenses from the scope of the Freedom of Information Act. The proposal was dr...

We have teamed up with Charon QC to do a series of political podcasts to be published on his site and the Wardman Wire . This is an interview with Tom Harris MP; it is Lawcast 136. Tom Harris MP is the Labour member for Glasgow South, an enthusiastic user of twitter and author of his own very active blog AND ANOTHER THING. Tom has also taken to podcasting himself in recent weeks with Jamie Read MP...

Tom Harris the Labour MP for Glasgow South became embroiled in a row with the Commons fees office when his claims for a baby cot and bottle steriliser were rejected.

‘By focussing on class, we would effectively be conceding that we don’t have anything to say about Tory policies.’ – Tom Harris MP Like Bob Piper, we should all be shocked that Labour MP Tom Harris doesn’t seem to understand the importance of social class and why a class based analysis of politics should continue to inform

Fair play to Tom Harris MP for standing up at the Parliamentary Labour Party and telling Brown that for the sake of the party he felt Brown should go. There are plenty who have said things behind closed doors but Harris has had the courage of his convictions to make clear his views. I suspect that last thing that Harris needs is for SNP supporting blogs to congratulate him but his straightforward ...

One of the many sad and pathetic things about Tom Harris MP slagging off teenage mums on his blog is that he obviously believes he is being brave in doing so. Harris is a Member of Parliament, his argument draws on comments which Tony Blair made a decade ago and in content and tone he is

The blogging love-in between Tom Harris and Iain Dale appears to have ended now that Iain realises he is an out of touch authoritarian. I have news for Iain: He’s been out of touch for at least five years! Back in 2003 I wrote to Tom Harris asking him - as a

Tom Griffin (London, OK): The Government has today abandoned plans to hold a Commons vote on exempting MP's expenses from the Freedom of Information Act. Earlier, Mr Brown blamed the Conservatives for what he said was a breakdown of a consensus over the way forward. "We thought we had agreement on the FOI Act as part of this wider package," he told MPs. "Recently that suppo...

Tom Harris MP was Minister for Railways in Gordon Brown's Administration. He was "reshuffled" out of the Government in October 2008, and gave this interview to the BBC Programme "Today in Parliament".

I'm serious, I think the Labour MP might be trying to aggravate those old grievances against Gordon Brown, getting the momentum going again to oust the PM. Is Tom Harris a Milliband-ite? Or just in a huff that he is no longer a Minister? My curiosity was originally piqued when Tom wrote this rather defeatist blog piece in reaction to some admittedly grisly poll news. Tom even went as far as s...