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Edward Leigh

March 2021

  • Priti Patel listening to a question from Theresa May during the debate on the bill.

    Priti Patel hints UK government could set up national register of stalkers

    Debates on Monday have seen MPs and peers press for action to tackle violence against women and girls

October 2019

  • John Crace

    The politics sketch
    Speaker hopefuls trash Bercow as Commons disappears into K-hole

    John Crace
    You didn’t always know why MPs at the hustings wanted the job of Speaker – or who some of them even were

October 2018

  • Theresa May

    Theresa May wards off Tory Brexit rebels with ‘emotional’ speech

    Loyalists say there was little sign of a leadership challenge at 1922 Committee meeting

January 2018

  • The Commons Chamber. House of Commons

    MPs to vote on vacating UK parliament building for renovation works

    Some say move out of Palace of Westminster for multibillion-pound restoration unnecessary

October 2017

  • General Election 2017 aftermath<br>First Secretary of State Damian Green makes a statement to MPs in the House of Commons, London on the deal by the Democratic Unionist Party to support the minority Conservative government. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Monday June 26, 2017. See PA story POLITICS Election. Photo credit should read: PA Wire

    We're not ignoring you but vote doesn't bind, PM's deputy tells MPs

    Damian Green defends government stance that unanimously passed call for pause to universal credit rollout can be disregarded

October 2014

  • John Crace

    The politics sketch
    John Crace’s sketch: first day back for Nigel Farage’s cheeky little brother

    John Crace
    John Crace: The Ukip leader was watching from on high as the party’s first MP took his seat. But it was more sibling rivalry than proud parent

July 2014

  • Nick Clegg

    The politics sketch
    Clegg-baiting: A cruel bloodsport

    Deputy prime minister faces a kicking at question time – should he consider a chat show with Miriam after the election?

January 2014

  • Deborah Orr

    The Tories won't stand for selfish, feckless people – unless they're rich

    Deborah Orr
    Deborah Orr: Gerald Howarth says we should be more judgmental of parents who split up and cost the tax payer billions, but ignores the antisocial selfishness that goes on higher up the social ladder

May 2013

  • Nicholas Soames MP

    All hail the National Health Service – but not the EU

    As MPs debated the NHS in the Queen's speech debate, Europe kept barging its way in like a drunk in a pub

December 2012

  • Tory MP Edward Leigh said changing consummation's definition would make it hard to annul marriages

    Opponents of gay marriage focus on tricky definition of consummation

    Legal definition of consummation dismissed by gay rights groups as irrelevant but seized on by church and Tory opponents

November 2012

  • Sister Ruth Augustus 25/7/12

    'Nun' sentenced for hoax threat letters to Nick Clegg

    Sister Ruth Augustus, 72, sent envelopes containing suspicious powder to deputy PM and other leading politicians

April 2010

  • UK's leading actors urge voters to protect licence fee and keep BBC safe

    Amid fears of plans to cut the broadcaster's funding and Tory threats to disband the BBC's governing body, more than 40 top performers sign a letter in bid to safeguard its future

March 2010

  • john Prescott

    Public manager
    Labour's £1bn Whitehall reforms 'a waste of money'

    Repeated reorganisations have reaped few benefits for taxpayers, says spending watchdog

December 2009

  • John Bercow addresses the House of Commons after becoming Speaker of the House of Commons

    John Bercow facing Tory backbench challenge

  • A Nimrod landing at RAF Kinloss

    RAF bases face closure under plan to shift resources to Afghanistan

November 2009

  • Select committees need more power

    Michael Fallon
    Michael Fallon: We need far fewer committees with much smaller memberships if we are to expose the executive to genuine scrutiny

May 2009

  • Ghost Bikes

    Cyclists killed in Britain up by 11% in three years

    Rising number of serious road accidents involving cyclists and pedestrians puts UK behind other advanced industrial nations

November 2008

  • Politics blog
    VAT cuts 'won't help the poor', says Tory MP

  • Watchdog criticises 'overstretched' police complaints body

May 2008

  • Edward Leigh

    Ban on hybrid embryos and saviour siblings fails

    MPs vote by majority of 160 that combining human and animal genetic material for research should be allowed, and by a majority of 179 that 'saviour siblings' should not be banned

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