Cyclefree on invitations to address Parliament and the latest PB cartoon

Cyclefree on invitations to address Parliament and the latest PB cartoon

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Cartoons by Helen Cochrane and Nicholas Leonard. In June 2012, Nobel Peace Prize winner, Aung San Suu Kyi, gave an address to both Houses of Parliament, with the Speaker of the Commons, one John Bercow, giving a welcoming address.  Nothing very surprising there and surely nothing controversial about such an invitation or speaker.  But even Nobel Peace Prize winners can be criticised and Miss Suu Kyi has, for her reluctance to use her undoubted moral authority within Burma to speak…

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Betting on whether or not John Bercow will remain Speaker until next year

Betting on whether or not John Bercow will remain Speaker until next year

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This morning I asked a few bookies to price up whether John Bercow will still be Speaker on the 1st of January 2018, Graham Sharpe of William Hill obliged with the above odds. After much consideration, I’ve decided to take the 5/1 on him not lasting until 2018, the tweets below are indication why. What makes the Speaker's snub to Trump so extraordinary is that it's a deliberate & very public assault on Prime Minister's foreign policy. — Nick Robinson…

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Stoke Central’s down to whether BREXIT’s a big enough issue for ordinary voters to come out an give LAB a kicking

Stoke Central’s down to whether BREXIT’s a big enough issue for ordinary voters to come out an give LAB a kicking

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This analysis feels right The following is a great series of Tweet’s on Stoke Central by the FT’s Sebastian Payne https://twitter.com/SebastianEPayne/status/828723136191414273 https://twitter.com/SebastianEPayne/status/828723802053959680 https://twitter.com/SebastianEPayne/status/828724764776738816 https://twitter.com/SebastianEPayne/status/828725133326086145 https://twitter.com/SebastianEPayne/status/828726347434430469 https://twitter.com/SebastianEPayne/status/828726898729558016

John Bercow says he will block Trump from addressing Parliament during the President’s State Visit

John Bercow says he will block Trump from addressing Parliament during the President’s State Visit

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwJCyld4ac0 #BREAKING: John Bercow will oppose plan to let Donald Trump address parliament due to 'sexism and racism'https://t.co/Eme7D2U5SH pic.twitter.com/M5GkqEXwG2 — The Telegraph (@Telegraph) February 6, 2017 The Speaker was often a thorn in Cameron's side. But this is huge slap down for Theresa May. https://t.co/WB9NP9nv78 — Paul Brand (@PaulBrandITV) February 6, 2017 Speaker: "As far as this place is concerned I feel very strongly that our opposition to racism and sexism" ..means he shd not be invited — Sam Coates…

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Brexit. There’s everything to play for

Brexit. There’s everything to play for

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Embed from Getty Images My vantage point a couple of thousand metres up in the French Alps didn’t make Labour’s agonising over Article 50 any less depressing for me than it was for colleagues back at Westminster. For what it’s worth my sympathies were with those Labour MPs who felt, at this precise point in the process, that the referendum result trumped their pro European principles. But I wholly agree with MP Paul Flynn who tweeted “Anti-Brexiteers, who reluctantly accepted…

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The enthusiasm gap that spells doom for Corbyn and Labour

The enthusiasm gap that spells doom for Corbyn and Labour

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Tory voters love May whereas Labour voters are lukewarm towards Corbyn and that’s bad news for Labour explains Keiran Pedley On this week’s PB / Polling Matters podcast we unveiled some new data courtesy of Opinium. Respondents were asked whether they agreed or disagreed with 6 statements related to Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn. By subtracting the number that disagreed with each statement from the number that agreed we could create a ‘net agree’ score for analysis purposes. The results…

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