Parliamentarians have departed for a few months (did you not hear them cheering as they went) and the precincts of the Palace of Westminster are quieter, given over to the occasional troop of tourists. We’re supposed to believe that MPs will be spending their summers sipping Pina Coladas in fully expensed...
We’re supposed to be heading for summer, but it was winter in some pockets of Westminster yesterday. A hard frost in some of the Palace’s meeting rooms yesterday bodes ill for the party over the coming months. Firstly at the Progress event with Stephen Byers and Ben Bradshaw I witnessed a room split...