No news whatsoever as Keir bores everyone to death. He’s a natural The liaison super-committee has an unavoidable tri-annual encounter with the prime minister The Guardian - UK · Dec 15, 2025
Six London Labour MPs break rank to back rejoining Customs Union after Brexit blow to Britain They include Dame Meg Hillier, Diane Abbott, Fleur Anderson, Marsha De Cordova, Dawn Butler and Bell Ribeiro-Addy Evening Standard · Dec 10, 2025
Charity watchdog launched legal action to stop MPs seeing sexual abuse report A Charity Commission investigation into sexual abuse complaints at charities is set to be presented to MPs next week. Evening Standard · Sep 4, 2025
Omagh inquiry seeks secret 15-year-old transcript from Commons archive The Omagh bombing on August 15 1998 saw 29 people killed, including a woman pregnant with twins. Evening Standard · Jul 14, 2025
MP subject to abuse as child ‘appalled’ by members ‘weaponising’ grooming Liberal Democrat Josh Babarinde said the discussion around a national investigation into child sexual abuse is being used as ‘political football’. Evening Standard · Jan 6, 2025
Do more to protect old pubs to stop another loss like Crooked House, MPs told Conservative MP Marco Longhi told the Commons that more needed to be done to protect historic public houses. The Independent UK · Nov 16, 2023
Supermarket chain Booths axing almost all self-checkout tills following customer backlash The upmarket supermarket is set to replace self-checkout tills in all but two of its stores Evening Standard · Nov 10, 2023
Doctor Who actor John Barrowman backed by senior MP in row over supermarket self-checkouts Simon Hoare MP stressed that for some people the 'short conversation at the checkout is sometimes the only human interaction of the day' Evening Standard · Nov 8, 2023
Negotiations with DUP over trade border impasse in final phase, MPs told Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris also said he was not minded to change the provisions of the Good Friday Agreement. The Independent UK · Oct 25, 2023
PSNI data breach ‘could cost force up to £240m’ The Northern Ireland Affairs Committee is investigating the Police Service of Northern Ireland data breach. The Independent UK · Sep 5, 2023
Leadership of PSNI is not at war with itself, senior officer tells MPs The Northern Ireland Affairs Committee heard Deputy Chief Constable Mark Hamilton is to appear before a meeting of the Police Federation on Wednesday. The Independent UK · Sep 5, 2023
Policing Board will have to answer questions about PSNI controversies – Hoare The Northern Ireland Affairs Committee is investigating a major PSNI data breach. The Independent UK · Sep 5, 2023
Simon Hoare: Conservative MP met with loyalists on 'personal' fact-finding mission The Northern Ireland Affairs Committee released a statement about the meetings, which said they were not an attempt to represent the committee Belfast Live · Jun 21, 2023
Senior Tory MP met loyalist paramilitaries on 'personal fact-finding mission' A Conservative MP reportedly met with loyalist paramilitaries in Northern Ireland as a personal fact-finding mission, a Westminster committee has… The National (Scotland) · Jun 21, 2023
The Independent UK · Jun 21, 2023 MP met with loyalists on ‘personal’ fact-finding mission Simon Hoare told the Belfast Telegraph he had attended meetings in a personal capacity.
The Independent UK · May 29, 2023 Revealed: Tory minister and MPs claimed driving fines on expenses Exclusive: It’s scandalous, says former ethics tsar as Sunak is dragged into new ethics row
Evening Standard · May 28, 2023 Four MPs claimed hundreds of pounds in driving fines back on expenses Four MPs claimed back hundreds of pounds in driving fines on their travel expenses.
The Independent UK · May 28, 2023 MPs claiming driving fines on expenses is ‘manifestly wrong’ Mr Bryant’s intervention came after The Independent revealed a Tory minister who served under Suella Braverman at the Home Office is among high-profile MPs to have wrongly claimed hundreds of pounds in driving fines on expenses
Daily Mirror · May 28, 2023 Tory MPs claim hundreds of pounds in driving fines back on EXPENSES sparking fury Sir Alastair Graham, former chair of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, said it was 'scandalous', adding that MPs should have to pay their fines 'like the rest of us'
The Independent UK · May 25, 2023 ‘Will the last Tory please turn out the lights’: WhatsApp messages reveal turmoil in the Conservative Party Panicking Tory MPs warned the party is on course to turn into a ‘skip fire’ and could even ‘die’
The Independent UK · Apr 26, 2023 Cuts to police may damage efforts to tackle paramilitarism, MPs told Members of the Independent Reporting Commission issued the warning as they addressed the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee.
Belfast Live · Mar 21, 2023 Northern Ireland segregated housing and education ‘obscene’, MPs told Peace walls come down only with consultation and consent of the communities on either side
Evening Standard · Mar 13, 2023 Controversial small boats bill clears first Commons hurdle amid Tory calls for changes Suella Braverman faced pleas from backbench Conservative MPs to reform the Government's controversial asylum policy
The Independent UK · Mar 13, 2023 Tory MPs urge Braverman to make changes to controversial immigration reforms The Home Secretary earlier said the Illegal Migration Bill is needed as the UK asylum system has been ‘overwhelmed’.
Evening Standard · Mar 13, 2023 Rishi Sunak urged by top Tory to make small boats bill ‘tough and humane’ Rishi Sunak was urged on Monday by a senior Tory to amend his flagship immigration bill to make it “humane” as well as “tough” by opening up safe and legal asylum routes at the same time as clamping down on the flow of small boats across the Channel.