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The virtual Parliament is no longer necessary. We can do so much better
Coronavirus
By Jacob Rees-Mogg MP
The virtual Parliament is no longer necessary. We can do so much better
Westminster has been the seat of our democracy for centuries. It will take more than the coronavirus to change that.
In forcing the return of Parliament, Boris Johnson risks sending a dangerous message to bad employers
Coronavirus
By Chris Elmore MP
In forcing the return of Parliament, Boris Johnson risks sending a dangerous message to bad employers
Insisting that all MPs return to Parliament in an arbitrary way puts the health of older and vulnerable Members and staff in jeopardy – and risks giving license to bad employers to put undue pressure on their own workers
‘We need to educate our children again’ – inside the battle to re-open England’s schools
Coronavirus
By Georgina Bailey
‘We need to educate our children again’ – inside the battle to re-open England’s schools
Thousands of children will return to primary school today in the first phase of the Government’s plan to get all pupils back in the classroom before the summer holidays. But teaching unions say they have “deep concerns” and accuse ministers of ignoring the scientific evidence. Georgina Bailey reports on the Government’s attempt to get schools back up and running – and the clash with the teachers who fear it is too early
The Breakfast Briefing: Boris throws protective ring around top scientists PLUS Jacob Rees-Mogg accused of flicking ‘multiple v-signs’
Coronavirus
The Breakfast Briefing: Boris throws protective ring around top scientists PLUS Jacob Rees-Mogg accused of flicking ‘multiple v-signs’
Your essential guide to what’s moving this morning from the PoliticsHome team
The Breakfast Briefing: What you need to know as the coronavirus Test and Trace programme gets underway
Coronavirus
The Breakfast Briefing: What you need to know as the coronavirus Test and Trace programme gets underway
Your essential morning guide to what’s moving in Westminster from the PoliticsHome team.
Every Conservative MP who has condemned Dominic Cummings as lockdown row escalates
Coronavirus
Every Conservative MP who has condemned Dominic Cummings as lockdown row escalates
A rolling list of every Conservative MP that has broken party ranks to condemn Dominic Cummings. There are widespread calls for the senior aide’s resignation after it was revealed over the weekend that he had travelled from London to Durham during the nationwide coronavirus lockdown.
Inside the Liaison Committee as senior MPs prepare to grill Boris Johnson on coronavirus and Dominic Cummings
Coronavirus
By Sebastian Whale
Inside the Liaison Committee as senior MPs prepare to grill Boris Johnson on coronavirus and Dominic Cummings
Boris Johnson will appear before the powerful Liaison Committee for the first time this afternoon, to face questions over his handling of coronavirus, the economy and Dominic Cummings. Committee chairs past and present talk to Sebastian Whale about getting the truth out of the PM
How will we recover from the coronavirus crisis if we can’t trust Boris Johnson to do the right thing?
Coronavirus
By Darren Jones MP
How will we recover from the coronavirus crisis if we can’t trust Boris Johnson to do the right thing?
Public confidence is plummeting. We need a clear and coherent strategy to lift the lockdown and get our workers, businesses and consumers on the road to recovery
The Breakfast Briefing: Today’s committee grilling will cap a grim few days for Boris Johnson as the Dominic Cummings row continues
Coronavirus
The Breakfast Briefing: Today’s committee grilling will cap a grim few days for Boris Johnson as the Dominic Cummings row continues
Your essential morning guide to what’s moving in Westminster from the PoliticsHome team
The Breakfast Briefing: Boris Johnson bets that the circus will move on as he defends Dominic Cummings
Coronavirus
The Breakfast Briefing: Boris Johnson bets that the circus will move on as he defends Dominic Cummings
Your essential morning guide to what’s moving in Westminster from the PoliticsHome team
Rachel Reeves interview: “Usually, oppositions don’t want governments to succeed. That’s not the case at the moment”
Coronavirus
By Sebastian Whale
Rachel Reeves interview: “Usually, oppositions don’t want governments to succeed. That’s not the case at the moment”
Rachel Reeves is back on the Labour frontline after a five year hiatus. Though “shocked” to get the call up, the Leeds West MP is excited to be part of a team that she believes in. Tasked with pushing for a national recovery plan from the coronavirus crisis, she tells Sebastian Whale why we must address inequalities across society
Bernard Jenkin interview: ‘If Boris Johnson expects an easy ride, he's nominated the wrong man’
Political parties
By Georgina Bailey
Bernard Jenkin interview: ‘If Boris Johnson expects an easy ride, he's nominated the wrong man’
Bernard Jenkin’s appointment as chair of the Liaison Committee sparked a backlash from fellow Committee chairs, who accused the government of seeking to undermine parliamentary scrutiny. But as the Committee prepares to quiz the prime minister next week, Jenkin tells Georgina Bailey that he will not be "pulling his punches"
WATCH: Sunak's recession warning; Johnson's track and trace pledge and MPs' fears over 'unsafe' return: catch up on the week in Parliament
Coronavirus
By Eleanor Langford
WATCH: Sunak's recession warning; Johnson's track and trace pledge and MPs' fears over 'unsafe' return: catch up on the week in Parliament
Catch up on the week in Parliament with our three-minute round-up
The Breakfast Briefing: U-turn if you absolutely have to, PLUS Priti Patel’s Covid quarantine plan
Coronavirus
The Breakfast Briefing: U-turn if you absolutely have to, PLUS Priti Patel’s Covid quarantine plan
Your essential morning guide to what’s moving in Westminster from the PoliticsHome team
The Breakfast Briefing: NHS bosses demand details on Boris Johnson’s contact tracing vow PLUS how the PM’s lockdown thinking evolved
Coronavirus
The Breakfast Briefing: NHS bosses demand details on Boris Johnson’s contact tracing vow PLUS how the PM’s lockdown thinking evolved
Your morning guide to what’s moving in Westminster from PoliticsHome acting editor Matt Honeycombe-Foster. Sign up below to get the briefing in your inbox every morning
Boris Johnson: a changed prime minister
Coronavirus
By Sebastian Whale
Boris Johnson: a changed prime minister
In December 2019 Boris Johnson’s resounding election win made him the most powerful UK politician since Tony Blair. Having reshaped his party in his image, he had the means and the mandate not just to deliver Brexit, but to ensure his brand of Conservatism would dominate British politics for the next decade. Then everything changed. Sebastian Whale reports
The Breakfast Briefing: What do MPs really think about the Government’s coronavirus response?
Coronavirus
The Breakfast Briefing: What do MPs really think about the Government’s coronavirus response?
Your essential morning guide to what’s moving in Westminster, from the PoliticsHome team.
Higher taxes, more pay for nurses and a bigger state – our exclusive poll reveals how MPs see the post-Covid society
Coronavirus
By Sebastian Whale
Higher taxes, more pay for nurses and a bigger state – our exclusive poll reveals how MPs see the post-Covid society
Tax hikes, more pay for key workers, higher unemployment and a larger state – MPs have painted a picture of society after the pandemic
Your vote matters, wherever it is cast in the UK
Political parties
By Chloe Smith MP
Your vote matters, wherever it is cast in the UK
Our parliamentary constituencies are in dire need of a refresh – and we need to start that process now
The Breakfast Briefing: Have ministers made a rod for their backs with 30m vaccines pledge?
Coronavirus
The Breakfast Briefing: Have ministers made a rod for their backs with 30m vaccines pledge?
Your morning guide to what’s moving in Westminster from the PoliticsHome team
The Breakfast Briefing: 2019 is back as Boris faces 1922, Labour splits erupt and Gove slams the EU
Coronavirus
The Breakfast Briefing: 2019 is back as Boris faces 1922, Labour splits erupt and Gove slams the EU
Your essential guide to what’s moving in Westminster this morning from the PoliticsHome team
The Breakfast Briefing: MP anger over Jacob Rees-Mogg’s ‘Darwinian’ plan for Commons return
Coronavirus
The Breakfast Briefing: MP anger over Jacob Rees-Mogg’s ‘Darwinian’ plan for Commons return
Your essential morning guide to what’s moving in Westminster from the PoliticsHome team
The Breakfast Briefing: Rishi Sunak’s grim options revealed as economy shrinks
Coronavirus
The Breakfast Briefing: Rishi Sunak’s grim options revealed as economy shrinks
Your essential morning guide to what’s moving in Westminster from the PoliticsHome team
Analysis: The questions still unanswered as Rishi Sunak extends the multi-billion pound coronavirus furlough scheme
Coronavirus
By Georgina Bailey
Analysis: The questions still unanswered as Rishi Sunak extends the multi-billion pound coronavirus furlough scheme
As the Chancellor announces a fresh extension to the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, The House’s policy editor Georgina Bailey digs into the detail - and gauges the mood among MPs
The Breakfast Briefing: Rishi Sunak’s next move on furloughing, Boris Johnson’s baby steps - and another Tory BBC row
Coronavirus
The Breakfast Briefing: Rishi Sunak’s next move on furloughing, Boris Johnson’s baby steps - and another Tory BBC row
Your essential guide to what’s moving in Westminster this morning from the PoliticsHome team
The Nandy doctrine: renewing the ‘moral commitment’ to an ‘ethical’ foreign policy
Coronavirus
By Sebastian Whale
The Nandy doctrine: renewing the ‘moral commitment’ to an ‘ethical’ foreign policy
The shadow foreign secretary has made it her aim to win the argument on internationalism. Sebastian Whale explains
AT-A-GLANCE: All the steps in Boris Johnson's 'roadmap' for exiting lockdown
Coronavirus
AT-A-GLANCE: All the steps in Boris Johnson's 'roadmap' for exiting lockdown
Boris Johnson has published his 'roadmap' for exiting the coronavirus lockdown. PolHome digs into all the key measures announced in the three-stage plan for restarting the UK's economy.
End of the ‘golden era’? The growing calls for a ‘decoupling’ from China
Coronavirus
By Sebastian Whale
End of the ‘golden era’? The growing calls for a ‘decoupling’ from China
The Chinese Ambassador to the UK last week warned that increasingly vocal criticisms of Beijing from Conservative Members of Parliament risked “poisoning” UK-China relations. What’s behind the rift, and how should the UK approach one of the key foreign policy challenges of the coming decade? Sebastian Whale reports
The Breakfast Briefing: Back-to-work row, Boris’s Commons statement - and Nicola Sturgeon’s fury
Coronavirus
The Breakfast Briefing: Back-to-work row, Boris’s Commons statement - and Nicola Sturgeon’s fury
Your essential guide to what’s moving in Westminster this morning from the PoliticsHome team
The Breakfast Briefing: Why ministers can’t just blame the press for unforced errors on lockdown messaging
Coronavirus
The Breakfast Briefing: Why ministers can’t just blame the press for unforced errors on lockdown messaging
Your morning guide to what’s moving in Westminster from the PoliticsHome team
The Breakfast Briefing: Boris’s lockdown plan, Bank’s recession warning, Keir vs Corbyn
Coronavirus
The Breakfast Briefing: Boris’s lockdown plan, Bank’s recession warning, Keir vs Corbyn
Your essential morning guide to what’s moving in Westminster from the PoliticsHome team
How will the contact tracing App for COVID-19 work?
Coronavirus
By The Parliamentary Office of Science & Technology
How will the contact tracing App for COVID-19 work?
A trial is underway on the Isle of Wight to test an NHS contact tracing App to help in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic. How do contact tracing Apps work, and how will the data be used? Susie Wright from the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology explains
The Breakfast Briefing: Neil Ferguson quits, the grim toll, and Theresa May’s tips for Boris
Coronavirus
The Breakfast Briefing: Neil Ferguson quits, the grim toll, and Theresa May’s tips for Boris
Your essential morning guide to what’s moving in Westminster
EXCL Two hundred peers demand longer Lords sittings to grill Government's coronavirus response
Coronavirus
EXCL Two hundred peers demand longer Lords sittings to grill Government's coronavirus response
Around two hundred peers have demanded they be allowed to sit for longer to allow greater scrutiny of the Government's coronavirus response, PoliticsHome can reveal.
We’re not all in this together, but it’s time we were
Coronavirus
By Zarah Sultana MP
We’re not all in this together, but it’s time we were
In 1945, the working class insisted that if we could care for everyone in a crisis, we could do it in peacetime too. When we emerge from this pandemic, let's look to them for inspiration and build a world for working people
The Breakfast Briefing: PM’s lectern comeback, testing deadline arrives, and Labour’s lockdown critique
Coronavirus
The Breakfast Briefing: PM’s lectern comeback, testing deadline arrives, and Labour’s lockdown critique
Your morning guide to what’s moving in Westminster, from PolHome acting editor Matt Honeycombe-Foster