John Penrose, Liz Saville Roberts and John Mann join Dermot Murnaghan for a lively debate about The Queen's Speech, Brexit and a possible General Election...
Politicians have never had a great reputation. In most polls of occupations you’d like your children to enter, they rank somewhere between bankers, journalists and smallpox. And if you look at old-time newspaper caricatures, it’s been that way for centuries. But most MPs I meet, from every political party, do…
Read MoreWith speculation about a General Election mounting, John is asked by the BBC whether the Queen's Speech is a waste of time...
Constitutions ought to be straightforward things. Bits of political plumbing to make sure democracies work properly, so power can transfer smoothly from a dying Government to a new one without a punch-up. But that’s not what ours is doing. The plumbing is blocked. We’ve got a Government that can’t govern…
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