Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle slams Rishi Sunak’s Budget PR drive complaining about pre-briefing and saying Chancellor shouldn’t be ‘dashing off’ for press conference Chancellor Rishi Sunak will deliver his eagerly-awaited Budget at 12.30 today Much of the detail of the Budget has been released ahead of time by Treasury Lindsay Hoyle said ‘tradition matters’ and … Read more
Watching the fragile new lives before me, I feel an overwhelming sense of awe. Every breath seems like a miracle, and I’m all too aware their very survival depends on me. Except the newborns I cradle in my hands have feathers and the patter of tiny feet are very tiny indeed. This is because the … Read more
For Patricia Rodrigues, the first warning that the double-fronted mansion on her street was falling down came at 12.10am on Tuesday when police knocked on the door. Just seven doors down, the five-storey, £8.5million property had crumbled under the night sky — and she had slept through it. ‘We were woken by banging on the … Read more
Timeline of the PM’s lockdown decision Friday, 7am: Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab begins a round of broadcast interviews defending the government’s ‘Tiered’ system of local lockdowns. Friday 2.30pm: Sir Patrick Vallance underlines SAGE’s support for a national lockdown at a briefing with reporters, suggesting it was getting late to arrest the spike in cases before Christmas. … Read more
‘Boris talks a lot’: Speaker Lindsay Hoyle poses with his PARROT named after the PM (who also makes an appearance as a DOG TOY) and reveals Labour leader Starmer could be next to join his parliamentary menagerie, saying ‘it would be nice to have a Keir’ By David Wilcock, Whitehall Correspondent For Mailonline Published: 17:43 … Read more
In a series of video calls Sir Lindsay Hoyle, 63, advised MPs to avoid commuting into the coronavirus ‘riddled’ House of Commons, especially if they are at-risk – 24 MPs are 70 and over.
For most of us, reaching your ninth decade is a sign it’s time to kick back and relax. Unless you’re national treasure Mary Berry, that is, who might be 85 but says she will carry on working ‘until they kick me out’. Indeed, far from slowing down since she quit The Great British Bake Off … Read more
More Tories joined the revolt on coronavirus curbs today – despite suggestions Commons rules could save Boris Johnson from an humiliating defeat this week. The PM is struggling to quell growing fury from his own MPs over the restrictions and the lack of parliamentary scrutiny. There are claims that up to 100 are ready to … Read more
‘Ground Control to first officer Bob Blackman’: Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle can’t resist repeatedly poking fun at Harrow East Tory MP and his pilot-like headset during Parliamentary appearances Bob Blackman has contributed to Parliament virtually since lockdown in March His headset and microphone have led Speaker to jokingly refer to him as a pilot … Read more
From fancy marketing campaigns to shiny cylinders, Dyson has transformed the vacuum cleaner into an unlikely status symbol. With more than 100 million of its vacuums sold in Britain alone since its launch in 1991, the company has monopolised the market for decades. Now, though, two of the brand’s senior staff have left to launch … Read more