MPs' unemployment benefit bill hits €400k, as 23 MPs quit politics early

23 hours, 17 minutes ago

Sixth MP for Forum voor Democratie, the party with three seats

Far right political party Forum voor Democratie is about to get its sixth member of parliament, despite winning just three seats in last year’s general election. Party leader Thierry Baudet is taking six weeks paternity leave following the birth of his second child and will be replaced in parliament by Lidewij de Vos, who was number six on the party’s …

Jansen Van Houwelingen Party List

4 weeks, 1 day ago

Another Labour U-turn! Rachel Reeves defends blocking £10.5bn compo for Waspi women saying it is 'not the best use of taxpayers cash' - after backing campaigners demanding cash

Daily Mail

Rachel Reeves today defended the decision to block massive a massive handout for millions of women who say they were blindsided by state pension age changes - having previously backed the campaign. The Chancellor said ministers were right to block the £10.5bn compensation package for Waspis - women born in the 1950s who missed out when the state pension age …

Women Pension Age State Sir Keir Kendall Ms Kendall

1 month, 1 week ago

MPs support national insurance hike for employers amid ‘jobs tax’ warning

The Independent

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1 month, 4 weeks ago

Queensland MPs who lost seats to collectively receive up to $636,000 in 'transition' payments

ABC

Queensland MPs booted from office in last month's state election will collectively receive up to $636,000 in "transition" allowance payments. All the MPs who lost their seat at the election were Labor politicians except Stephen Andrew, from the Katter's Australian Party, and Amy MacMahon who heralds from the Greens. Former speaker says payment should be more QUT adjunct associate professor …

Labor Election Transition Payment Parliament Seat Mps

2 months ago

Multi-millionaire takes over as Dutch tax minister

Dutch News

Former businessman Tjebbe van Oostenbruggen is taking over as tax minister following the resignation of Folkert Idsinga, who quit last week saying the far-right PVV had held a “knife at his throat”. Van Oostenbruggen said after his appointment he will be happy as minister “if the Dutch have more confidence in the government, better grip on their own financial situation …

Minister Nsc Van Oostenbruggen

3 months, 1 week ago

Tugendhat tops donations of Tory leadership candidates with more than £150,000

The Independent

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7 months, 1 week ago

Mapped: List of all the MPs standing down at next election as Michael Gove and John Redwood join the exodus

The Independent

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7 months, 2 weeks ago

Mystery as Tory MP becomes 79th to quit even after campaigning for six days

The Independent

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1 year, 3 months ago

MPs add €4 billion to the budget, back higher tax, minimum wage

Dutch News

New measures backed by MPs in two days of debate on the caretaker government’s spending plans have added almost €4 billion to the budget, the Financieele Dagblad said on Friday. MPs voted to freeze petrol taxes at their current level, increase the minimum wage, cut energy taxes and put more money into public transport, on top of the €2 billion …

Minimum Wage Billion Mps Higher Tax

1 year, 4 months ago

Payoffs for MPs who lose seats or resign at general election set to double

The Independent

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Election Payment Email Parliament Westminster Email View Mps

2 years ago

MPs make £17.1m from outside jobs since 2019

The Independent

Britain’s MPs have earned £17.1m from work outside parliament since the 2019 election, it has emerged – with the vast majority made by Conservative MPs. Hannah White, of the Institute for Government said: “Is that transparency actually sufficient?” Labour MPs earned a total of £1.2m from second jobs and work outside parliament, with the Liberal Democrat MPs earning an extra …

Sir Keir Tory Mps Sky News Second Jobs Outside Work

2 years, 3 months ago

Truss and Kwarteng face Commons bid to dock their pay over ‘gross mismanagement’

The Independent

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Salary Prime Democrat Commons Kwarteng

2 years, 3 months ago

Kwarteng acknowledges ‘tough’ day after U-turn over tax cut for rich

The Independent

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2 years, 4 months ago

Government MP resigns over 'ice-cold' treatment of asylum seekers

Dutch News

A VVD MP has resigned because of the ‘ice-cold’ treatment of asylum seekers in the Netherlands. The spark was a week in which more than 700 asylum seekers slept outside a registration camp in Ter Apel in unsanitary and ‘inhumane’ conditions, and a three month old baby died, he said in a statement on Twitter. ‘I had counted on a …

Ter Vvd Mp De Neef

2 years, 4 months ago

Government MP resigns over 'ice-cold' treatment of asylum seekers

Dutch News

A VVD MP has resigned because of the ‘ice-cold’ treatment of asylum seekers in the Netherlands. The spark was a week in which more than 700 asylum seekers slept outside a registration camp in Ter Apel in unsanitary and ‘inhumane’ conditions, and a three month old baby died, he said in a statement on Twitter. ‘I had counted on a …

Ter Vvd Mp De Neef

2 years, 10 months ago

MPs spending their own money on electorates raises question of 'political equality', expert says

ABC

A political expert has raised concerns about the "systemic risk" of having wealthy candidates running for office, after a South Australian federal MP committed $25,000 of her own money to a renewable energy grant scheme for her constituents. Key points: Federal MP Rebekha Sharkie is spending $25,000 on a renewables grant scheme The money will flow to projects in Mayo …

Community Money Projects Federal Grant Orr Climate 200

3 years, 4 months ago

MP Omtzigt leaving CDA after party conflicts, benefits scandal

NL Times

When he returns to parliament, former CDA member Pieter Omtzigt will not return to his party. But the party leaders have known for some time that Omtzigt will not return, said those involved. In June, after a conflict with the CDA, Omtzigt announced that he was resigning his party membership. The former CDA chairman allegedly promised him party leadership if …

Party Parliament His Party Some Time Cda Omtzigt

3 years, 6 months ago

Labour politician calls for merger with Greens to build left-wing bloc

NL Times

PvdA politician Frank van de Wolde wants the labour party to merge with GroenLinks to form a left-wing bloc with more influence, the 28-year-old from Utrecht said when he announced his candidacy for PvdA chairman, RTV Utrecht reports. He and some other PvdA members wrote this manifesto for closer cooperation with GroenLinks after both left-wing parties got disappointing results in …

Groenlinks Pvda Van De Wolde

3 years, 7 months ago

Popular CDA MP Omtzigt taking 4 months of leave for exhaustion

NL Times

CDA parliamentarian Pieter Omtzigt announced he will not be returning to the Tweede Kamer for another 16 weeks. The popular CDA member played a crucial role in exposing the benefits scandal in January which caused the third Cabinet of Mark Rutte to resign. Afterwards, it emerged that Rutte specifically discussed Omtzigt in early Cabinet formation talks after the election, suggesting …

Rutte Cda Omtzigt

3 years, 9 months ago

MP accused of sexually transgressive behavior resigns

NL Times

Sidney Smeets, an attorney and member of Parliament for D66, resigned from Parliament on Thursday. The 45-year-old was accused of grooming, unwanted sexual advances, and sexually transgressive behavior by several young men on social media who said Smeets approached them through dating apps. Without admitting wrongdoing, he said he was stepping down so that the accusations would not harm D66 …

Men Parliament Behavior Resigns Mp Accused

3 years, 9 months ago

CDA chairman resigns over disappointing election result

Dutch News

Rutger Ploum, chairman of the Christian Democrats, has resigned, citing his party’s disappointing result in this week’s general election. The CDA lost four of their 19 seats in Wednesday’s vote and are now the fourth biggest party in parliament, behind the two Liberal parties VVD and D66 and the far right PVV. Wopke Hoekstra, who led the campaign, told reporters …

Hoekstra Disappointing Result Ploum

3 years, 9 months ago

CDA chairman resigns over disappointing election result

Dutch News

Rutger Ploum, chairman of the Christian Democrats, has resigned, citing his party’s disappointing result in this week’s general election. The CDA lost four of their 19 seats in Wednesday’s vote and are now the fourth biggest party in parliament, behind the two Liberal parties VVD and D66 and the far right PVV. Wopke Hoekstra, who led the campaign, told reporters …

Hoekstra Ploum Cda Chairman

3 years, 10 months ago

Hoekstra doubles down on cutting unemployment benefits; CDA loses two seats in polls

NL Times

Christian Democrat Party party leader Wopke Hoekstra reacts to claims to cut unemployment benefits in an interview with newspaper de Telegraaf. On Thursday, the party leader said that he believed that the "time has come" to shorten the maximum duration of unemployment benefits from two years to one. This plan will need to be discussed post-Corona so that people find …

Seat Party Leader Unemployment Benefits Hoekstra Cda Two Seats

4 years, 2 months ago

Amsterdam's infrastructure chief moves to be mayor of Utrecht

Dutch News

Amsterdam’s infrastructure chief Sharon Dijksma is set to be appointed the new mayor of Utrecht, replacing Jan van Zanen who has moved on to The Hague. Dijksma, 49, is a career politician, who was the youngest ever MP when she first entered parliament for the Labour party at the age of 23. After several spells as a junior minister, she …

Utrecht Dijksma

4 years, 2 months ago

Amsterdam's infrastructure chief moves to be mayor of Utrecht

Dutch News

Amsterdam’s infrastructure chief Sharon Dijksma is set to be appointed the new mayor of Utrecht, replacing Jan van Zanen who has moved on to The Hague. Dijksma, 49, is a career politician, who was the youngest ever MP when she first entered parliament for the Labour party at the age of 23. After several spells as a junior minister, she …

Utrecht Dijksma

4 years, 3 months ago

After 10 years in the spotlight, Klaas Dijkhoff is to quit politics at the March election

Dutch News

Klaas Dijkhoff, current leader of the right-wing Liberal party VVD in parliament and considered by many to be Mark Rutte’s heir apparent, is quitting politics at the March general election. ‘We are often chasing after the facts and society has often moved ahead of the political discussion.’ Dijkhoff was elected to parliament in 2010 and replaced Fred Teeven as junior …

Rutte Vvd Dijkhoff Told

4 years, 3 months ago

After 10 years in the spotlight, Klaas Dijkhoff is to quit politics at the March election

Dutch News

Klaas Dijkhoff, current leader of the right-wing Liberal party VVD in parliament and considered by many to be Mark Rutte’s heir apparent, is quitting politics at the March general election. ‘We are often chasing after the facts and society has often moved ahead of the political discussion.’ Dijkhoff was elected to parliament in 2010 and replaced Fred Teeven as junior …

Rutte Vvd Dijkhoff Told

4 years, 5 months ago

Tories running targeted anti-immigration ad campaign against Labour MPs in marginal seats

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4 years, 9 months ago

Ministers will give financial support to dumped temporary staff

Dutch News

The government will develop a scheme to give financial support to temporary workers who have lost their jobs due to the coronavirus crisis and who are not eligible for unemployment benefit, the Financieele Dagblad reported on Tuesday. MPs from across the political spectrum have urged social affairs minister Wouter Koolmees to help people on staffing agency contracts who are being …

4 years, 9 months ago

Cabinet approves ordinance to reduce salaries of PM, Ministers, MPs by 30% for a year

The Hindu

The Union Cabinet on Monday approved a 30% cut in the salaries of all Members of Parliament and a two-year suspension of the MP Local Area Development scheme so that the amount saved can go to the Consolidated Fund of India to fight COVID-19, Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar said on Monday. Coronavirus India lockdown Day 13 updates | …

Salary Congress Cabinet Cut Mps Javadekar Mplad

4 years, 10 months ago

Labour party to withdraw support from pension deal over taxing jobs

NL Times

The PvdA is threatening to withdraw its support from the pension agreement, which was finally reached in June last year after a decade of negotiations. According to the labor party, the coalition is not sticking to its promise to make money available so that people with physically taxing jobs can retire earlier, RTL Z reports. The cabinet signed an agreement …

Pvda Taxing Jobs Pension Deal

5 years, 1 month ago

Britain’s youngest MP vows to donate more than half of salary to charity to ‘give back to labour movement’

The Independent

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Labour Labour Movement

5 years, 6 months ago

Council bill for jobless aldermen tops €126m in five years

Dutch News

Dutch local councils have spent €126m over the past five years on special unemployment benefits for former aldermen, according to research by current affairs show EenVandaag. In total, 1,500 aldermen received the civil service benefit known as wachtgeld after losing their jobs when councils changed political colour or because they were not reappointed. The aldermen’s association Wethoudersvereneging said it is …

Aldermen

5 years, 10 months ago

Ex-Labour MPs branded 'scabs' by Corbyn ally who complained they have harmed efforts to STOP Brexit

Daily Mail

MPs who quit the Labour Party are 'scabs' who will regret their decision to walk out ahead of Brexit, a Jeremy Corbyn ally has said. Lloyd Russell-Moyle fired a broadside at his former party colleagues after they quit Labour to join up with three disaffected Tory MPs in a new centrist group. The Brighton Kemptown MP is an ally of …

Brexit Labour Party Quit Corbyn Labour Mps Luciana Berger

6 years, 1 month ago

More MPs are leaving parliament before their time is up

Dutch News

The recent departure of VVD MP Foort van Oosten to become mayor of Nissewaard brings the number of MPs quitting before the end of their four-year term to 13, RTL Nieuws reports. Bert van den Braak of parliamentary documentation centre PDC, said the number of MPs that abandon their post prematurely is not ‘excessively high’. ‘Between 1977 and 1981 some …

Mps Rtl

6 years, 1 month ago

More MPs are leaving parliament before their time is up

Dutch News

The recent departure of VVD MP Foort van Oosten to become mayor of Nissewaard brings the number of MPs quitting before the end of their four-year term to 13, RTL Nieuws reports. Bert van den Braak of parliamentary documentation centre PDC, said the number of MPs that abandon their post prematurely is not ‘excessively high’. ‘Between 1977 and 1981 some …

Mps Rtl

6 years, 3 months ago

Alexander Pechtold steps down as D66 leader

NL Times

Alexander Pechtold is resigning as leader of the parliamentary faction of the D66, he announced at the party congress in Den Bosch on Saturday. Prime Minister Mark Rutte called Pechtold's resignation "a great loss for his party and for Dutch politics", ANP reports. The Prime Minister called Pechtold "an excellent debater, who loves the political craft", "a passionate defender of …

Dutch Party Leader Rutte D66 Pechtold

6 years, 3 months ago

Alexander Pechtold quits as D66 leader, after 12 years at the top

Dutch News

D66 leader Alexander Pechtold is standing down as head of the party and will quit as an MP on Tuesday, he told delegates to the party congress on Saturday. Pechtold told delegates in his final speech as party leader: ‘I am leaving the stage’. Because don’t forget, we are a stable, middle party, a government party.’ When Pechtold became party …

Party Told Leader Party Leader D66 Pechtold

6 years, 3 months ago

Alexander Pechtold quits as D66 leader, after 12 years at the top

Dutch News

D66 leader Alexander Pechtold is standing down as head of the party and will quit as an MP on Tuesday, he told delegates to the party congress on Saturday. Pechtold told delegates in his final speech as party leader: ‘I am leaving the stage’. Because don’t forget, we are a stable, middle party, a government party.’ When Pechtold became party …

Party Told Leader Party Leader D66 Pechtold

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