One of the Lib Dem grassroots big demands as part of any coalition or confidence and supply agreement is a referendum on changing the electoral …

I have to say that I feared the new expenses rules would be poorly thought-out and overly-puritanical, to the extent that it would be worse …

Currently, Parliament does not meet for a long enough period of the year. Far too much of its time is spent with MPs effectively being …

The annual cost of the new parliamentary body to be set up to monitor MPs expenses – the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) – is …

A hung parliament is, if we take the recent poll results as gospel, on the cards. The Conservatives need a national poll lead of 11 …

This is how David Cameron wants to do it:

I’ll be writing some commentary on this tomorrow.

As if it isn’t bad enough that they defraud the taxpayer through their expense claims to such an extent that the CPS has felt necessary …

It sounds rather like a middle-class sex position, doesn’t it? But if you ignore that (and get that image out of your head – that …

Oh the irony:

MPs’ select committees must be streamlined to make them more effective at scrutinising government business, a report says.
Some have up to 14 members, …

“Sir Robin” MPs – Labour and Lib Dem MPs in a Tory target seat who have decided to stand down rather than contest the next …