Thursday, 17 July 2014

How Michael Gove broke his own whip in the loo - Politics.co.uk

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"You would have thought the chief whip wouldn't have been in that situation. He was a little careless."

Gove's whip

Flushing out the truth: Here's how Michael Gove got stuck in the toilets on his first day as chief whip

Michael Gove in PMQs yesterday. William Hague said his toilet escapades showed how "assiduously" he treats his new job

Michael Gove's reputation appears to have disappeared down the pan, after a chat with a Labour backbencher meant he got stuck in the toilet on his first day as chief whip.

Disrespecting the Lords

PM faces peers' wrath over reshuffle 'crisis'

Lords in revolt: Government could face a vote on the issue next week

Angry peers could summon David Cameron to give evidence before their constitution committee if he refuses to make the new leader of the Lords a full Cabinet member.

Reshuffle: The inside story of how Hague's ego trumped the dignity of the Lords

Drip drip drip

Emergency surveillance bill puts public at risk of cyber criminals

Lords will send the bill back for rubber-stamping by the Commons today

Customers' personal information could be more vulnerable to cybercrime if the emergency surveillance law is passed, industry experts warn

Peers raise fears of Drip power-grab

Data retention: records will be kept for 12 months under the legislation

Prospect of a Lords rebellion against the government's emergency surveillance law grows, after influential committee of peers raised concerns

Roll of honour: Tiny band of MPs hold out against surveillance bill

In other news...

Truss sticks with badger cull plans

Brian May is one of the most prominent anti-badger cull campaigners

Queen guitarist Brian May has declared his willingness to end the "polarisation" of debate over the badger cull, following the appointment of Liz Truss to Defra.

After shambles at MoJ, Twitter-gaffe MP gets prisons job

Justice in chaos: MoJ manages to finally get itself a prisons minister

Has Downing Street found someone who knows even less about prisons than his predecessor?

Comment: Criminals are laughing at the government's corporate ownership register

The register is attracting praise - but the detail appears flawed

Have you ever seen someone throw themselves into a brave and valuable project, only to neglect details so important that they risk scuppering the entire enterprise?

Major report outlines plan to defuse ‘ticking time bomb of myopic management’

Commission on Management and Leadership issues rallying call for a Better Managed Britain.

Sustained law enforcement investigations rather than internet blocks are the best way to tackle internet sex offenders

“The arrest of 660 suspected paedophiles by the National Crime Agency (NCA) and the safeguarding of hundreds of vulnerable children is welcome news”.

Jail for Birmingham man who kept starving dogs in squalid kennels

Bull breed dog and puppies left starving and dehydrated finally find their happy ending thanks to RSPCA.

Twelve weeks on from MMR: what happens next?

Subtle, but not dramatic – that was our verdict on the impact of the mortgage market review (MMR) when we published our lending data for May.

Control of Horses Bill welcomed

Charities and rural organisations hope it will tackle scourge of ‘fly grazing’.

London Oratory School admissions policy found to be both racially and socio economically discriminatory

In a landmark ruling, the OSA has found the 2014 and 2015 admissions policies of the London Oratory School to be discriminatory on the basis of ethnicity and socio-economic background.

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