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Tam Dalyell

November 2018

  • Aeroplane toilet

    Brief letters
    Shrinking aeroplane loos will make many feel blue

    Brief letters: Denise Coates and Bet365 | Roy Bailey | Aeroplane toilets | Ian McKellen | Alan Bennett

January 2017

  • Tam Dalyell

    Letters: Tam Dalyell obituary

    Richard Norton-Taylor writes: His old-fashioned courtesy never stopped him pursuing the truth
  • Father of the House, Tam Dalyell Labour MP for Linlithgow, in his office at the House of Commons.

    Tam Dalyell obituary

    Labour backbencher who harried Margaret Thatcher over the General Belgrano and asked how an MP from a devolved Scotland could vote on English issues
  • Tam Dalyell once said Tony Blair was ‘by far the worst’ prime minister he served under.

    Tam Dalyell, former Labour MP, dies aged 84

    Long-serving politician, who retired in 2005, has died after a short illness, his family confirms

July 2015

  • Tam Dalyell

    West Lothian question still needs answering

    Letters: I think you significantly misrepresent the past impact of Scottish MPs voting on English-only matters

March 2015

  • Peter Preston

    No spite, no spads: how David Steel routed the Tories 50 years ago

    Peter Preston
    In 1965 I covered the byelection that catapulted ‘the boy David’ into parliament – and I returned this week to open an exhibition of this political sensation

June 2014

  • Gordon Brown on

    What's good for Scotland is good for Britain too

    Letters: Shifting to a social democratic economy would benefit all of the people in the UK instead of the wealthy and powerful

June 2013

  • Iain Banks will be the subject of a special event at the Edinburgh international books festival

    Edinburgh international book festival announces 2013 lineup

    Life and work of Iain Banks to be honoured at 30th festival, with Salman Rushdie, Margaret Atwood and Neil Gaiman also featuring in two-week event partnered by the Guardian

January 2013

  • Tam Dalyell

    Ministers accused of exploiting royal veto to block embarrassing legislation

    Bills on Iraq, Rhodesia and hereditary titles were blocked by Queen - on advice of ministers who had political objections

September 2012

  • Souness At Spurs

    From the Guardian archive
    From the archive, 5 September 1970: Questions asked as Spurs suspend Souness

    Originally published in the Guardian on 5 September 1970: Tam Dalyell MP calls for an investigation into Tottenham Hotspur's suspension of Graeme Souness, after the 17-year-old broke his contract by returning home to Scotland

May 2012

  • lord hanningfield with his dog

    MPs' expenses scandal: what happened next?

    Disgraced, depressed and, in some cases, imprisoned: politicians tainted by the expenses scandal talk to Simon Hattenstone about trying to rebuild their lives

January 2012

  • A young scot shelters

    From the Guardian archive
    From the archive, 14 January 1977: Scottish 'snare' scares Tories

    Originally published in the Guardian on 14 January 1977: After three hours of procedural wrangling, a move to axe Scotland from the devolution Bill was the first issue of the measure which was debated in the Commons yesterday

December 2011

  • Boris Johnson

    2011 in review
    Books for giving: politics

    A two-party look at the year's most intriguing political reads

August 2011

  • Debbie McGee and Paul Daniels

    Simon Hoggart's week
    Simon Hoggart's week: festival folks flip between jokes and soaks

    Wet Edinburgh is the place to plug a book, see a familial fringe foray and hear the one about the magician and the media baron

June 2010

  • dennis skinner

    Shortcuts
    When is it a heckle too far for the House of Commons?

    What does an MP have to do to be expelled from parliament these days?

April 2005

  • MPs uncovered
    Tam Dalyell

March 2005

  • Tam Dalyell, parliament's great dissenter, leaves the field after 40 years of battle

    Blair 'by far the worst' of his eight PMs says longest-serving MP as he stands down.

January 2004

  • Father of House and head of awkward squad to quit

    Tam Dalyell, the veteran Labour MP and father of the House of Commons, yesterday bowed to the inevitable and announced he would stand down at the next election after 43 years at Westminster - despite being more energetic than some MPs half his age.

  • Life in 1962

    Darren Lee
    Tam Dalyell has announced he will stand down after over 40 years as an MP. Darren Lee investigates how times have changed since he arrived in parliament.

  • Who's the daddy now?

    Colourful Tam Dalyell's successor as "father of the House of Commons" is likely to be the more monochrome Alan Williams, 73.
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