Seven Deadly Bins | Entente Cordiale | Lack of Interest
Two days of Parliament and a nice quiet start to the conference recess. That’s what this week promised… and immediately failed to...
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Charles Fletcher
- Sep 15
- 13 min
Aye Spy | Starm the Boats | Nutri-ain't neutrality
The summer recess ended a mere two weeks ago but the past fortnight has seen more than enough politics for SW1A to handle and so...
Charles Fletcher
- Sep 8
- 11 min
Concrete Proposals | Shuffling the Pack | Horiz-ON
Well recess is well and truly over and it’s been a week even Mr Topsy-Turvy would balk at… the kids are back in school just as the summer...
Charles Fletcher
- Sep 1
- 11 min
Shapps goes Commando | That's Criminal | Chi(un)ese
You Heard it Here First 🔊 August is over and politics is definitely back. If you read last week’s Weekly Roundup then you wouldn’t have...
Charles Fletcher
- Aug 25
- 9 min
Sentencing Laws | Results Week 2 | Low(er) Energy
International events have dominated the news agenda this week with Donald Trump’s sinister looking mugshot and footage of Prigozhin’s...
Charles Fletcher
- Aug 18
- 8 min
Health Kick | CPI Down | Results Week
After Energy Week and ‘Stop the Boats’ Week, well done for surviving Health Week (or entirely missing it if you’re on holiday). Without...
Charles Fletcher
- Aug 11
- 9 min
Tay Tay Away | Off the Boat | GDP Up
The PM might be on holiday but the 24 hour news cycle hasn’t shown any sign of letting up this August. The rollout of controversial...
Charles Fletcher
- Aug 4
- 11 min
Lack of Energy | Cheap Pints | Peaked Interest?
Love Island is over, the Ashes are headed back to Australia and interest rates have just shot up again. Happy recess everyone. Welcome to...
Charles Fletcher
- Jul 28
- 14 min
Planning Ahead | What a Banker | ULEZ OK
Resignations, new planning policies and a major High Court ruling. The era of the calm, quiet, eventless first week of recess is...
Andrew Niblett
- Jul 21
- 14 min
Uxbridge Saves Sunak | Labour Divide | Assent Granted
Three by-elections, two-child cap controversy, and one large chunk of legislation becoming law… the last week of the House of Commons...
Andrew Niblett
- Jul 14
- 14 min
Pay Approved | Parliamentary Ping-Pong | Ukraine Support
A NATO Summit, the long-awaited announcement on public sector pay, and numerous pieces of legislation going through Parliament. It might...
Andrew Niblett
- Jul 7
- 15 min
Dangerous Liaison | Mission: Education | Boris' Diary
As the Navigators crawl to summer recess, this week saw the Prime Minister being grilled by the Liaison Committee, Starmer being heckled...
Charles Fletcher
- Jun 30
- 14 min
Russia Coup? | Stop the Bill | NHS Plan
With just three weeks to go until the summer recess, Westminster and the mystical world of lobbyists and hacks that revolves around it...
Charles Fletcher
- Jun 23
- 15 min
Mortgages Up | Covid Inquiry | Ukraine Conference
Rising mortgage rates and questions around the sustainability of the housing market have created a difficult domestic news agenda for the...
Charles Fletcher
- Jun 16
- 14 min
Boris out | Schrödinger’s MP | Sturgeon arrested
This is the section of your roundup where we sum up in a few witty lines the main action to have taken place since last Friday. This week...
Charles Fletcher
- Jun 9
- 14 min
BoJo Gongs | Special Relationship | AI Summit
A jet-set lifestyle, daily U-turns and decisions made after too much champagne and far too long in the sun… no, were not talking about...
Charles Fletcher
- Jun 2
- 10 min
Covid WhatsApps | Build not Block | Pestminster Returns
It’s June 2023, and despite Labour’s attempts to own the recess news cycle, this week’s political news has once again been dominated by...
Charles Fletcher
- May 26
- 14 min
Migration Up | New BoJo Allegations | Take Out The Trash Day
Record net migration figures, more trouble for Boris Johnson and your standard pre-recess take-out-the-trash day – at least MPs are off...
Charles Fletcher
- May 19
- 13 min
Tory Rallies | Labour Policies | Sunak Abroad
Two fringe conservative conferences, interventions from future Tory leadership hopefuls and a whole raft of potential new Labour...
Charles Fletcher
- May 12
- 13 min
EU Non-fire | Missiles for Kyiv | Archbish anger
The bank holiday weekend rain couldn’t put a damper on the glorious scenes from the coronation on Saturday. However it turns out a...
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