His poll ratings are diving like a guillemot and the economy has stalled at the traffic lights but Sir Keir Starmer could not have been more delighted with himself. For Starmer KC, it seems, life’s ambition was to sit opposite the prosaic boobies of the liaison committee and be quizzed on the grinding minutiae of his government’s ‘delivery’. Prime Minister …
Britain’s first turbaned Sikh MP, Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi, has been elected chairman of the defence committee of the new Parliament. Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi The Labour MP from Slough received 320 of the 563 valid votes in the UK House of Commons. His opponent and fellow Labour MP Derek Twigg received 243 votes. Dhesi has been serving for over seven years …
