The former constitution minister, John Penrose, said there was a delicate balance to be struck between the flexibility required to cope with Brexit and the fundamental role of parliament in scrutinising the changes. The Conservative MP said he hoped ministers would hear legitimate concerns from MPs about an overreach of…
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We’re all tired of elections but there’s one final round of voting here in parliament and I am running to become chair of the hotly-contested Treasury select committee. We’d be failing in our duty if we allowed the Treasury committee to become a tool for settling old scores or for…
Read MoreJohn has published an article in The Guardian about how Brexit offers Britain a chance to mould a fairer society… There’s an element of “back to the future” about this current parliament. Two-party politics is back with a bang, after 25 years away, and with it has come a retro…
Read MoreExtract from an article in The Times, where John says that Taxpayers were ‘fleeced’ over Worldpay deal… MPs have attacked the way Royal Bank of Scotland was forced into fire sales of assets by European regulators, as the state-owned bank’s disposal of Worldpay in 2010 came under the spotlight. “The British…
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