James Somerville-Meikle: The Conservative Party and the Catholic community can find much common ground

James Somerville-Meikle: The Conservative Party and the Catholic community can find much common ground

James Somerville-Meikle is a committee member of Catholics in the Conservative Party. As the dust settled on post war Britain, Winston Churchill asked Sir Hugh Fraser, then MP for Stafford, to help get more Catholics involved in the Conservative Party. Sir Hugh was one of a tiny number of Catholic Conservative MPs in the post-war…

Karen Bradley: Taking back lost time. Should MPs control the House of Commons agenda?

Karen Bradley: Taking back lost time. Should MPs control the House of Commons agenda?

Karen Bradley is MP for Staffordshire Moorlands and Chair of the House of Commons Procedure Committee, which continues its inquiry into Commons’ Coronavirus procedures next week. Find out more here. Earlier this week, experts at University College London’s Constitution Unit published a major new report on the House of Commons, titled Taking back control: why…

Iain Dale: 400,000 police records have gone. In the Blair years, home secretaries were forced to resign over less.

Iain Dale: 400,000 police records have gone. In the Blair years, home secretaries were forced to resign over less.

Iain Dale presents the evening show on LBC Radio and the For the Many podcast with Jacqui Smith. Wednesday really did seem a Ground Zero or reset day in the United States. Donald Trump departed much more quietly than I thought he might, and apparently even left Joe Biden a nice letter on the desk…