Boris Johnson offered MPs a brief apology for his Partygate lawbreaking today - before attempting to drag attention back to the war in Ukraine. Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and other senior MPs requested the Commons vote after the Prime Minister was fined for attending his own lockdown-busting birthday party in No 10 in June 2020. Liberal Democrat leader Sir …
The new Speaker of the British Parliament has used his first speech to pay tribute to his daughter, who took her own life in 2017. Labour MP Sir Lindsay Hoyle was one of seven candidates to replace John Bercow, who retired last week after a decade in the job. Sir Lindsay, who served as deputy speaker under Mr Bercow from …
