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Gordon Birtwistle makes it 34 Liberal Democrat MPs on Twitter

20 October 2011 , ,
Gordon Birtwistle, MP for Burnley and PPS to Danny Alexander, is the latest Liberal Democrat MP to join Twitter. He is @GBirtwistle. You can follow all of the Liberal Democrat MPs on Twitter via the list I curate at twitter.com/markpack/libdem-mps and, if you have more of a London interest, you can follow the Liberal Democrat GLA members and [...]

The Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Private Secretaries (UPDATED)

The appointments of various LibDem MPs to be PPS to ministers have been rather low-profile, so in case you have missed any here is the complete list: Gordon Birtwistle – PPS to Danny Alexander Mike Crockart – PPS to Michael Moore Duncan Hames – PPS to Sarah Teather Jo Swinson – PPS to Vince Cable [...]

Kitty Ussher: unrepentant over expenses

By way of introduction, a sample of what Kitty Ussher (Labour MP for Burnley) had done: Kitty Ussher used allowances for £20,000 house make-over The records reveal that Miss Ussher, the MP for Burnley, contacted the Commons fees office within 12 months of being elected, with a detailed programme of work for the property she had already [...]

Attempt by Tories, Labour and BNP to oust Lib Dem fails by one vote

News just in from Burnley where the local Liberal Democrats have put out this press release: COUNCIL DRAMA: BNP, TORIES AND LABOUR IN UNHOLY ALLIANCE Councillors from the BNP, Tories and Labour parties tonight joined together to try to unseat Coun Gordon Birtwistle as leader of Burnley Council - but failed after one opposition councillor abstained. There was [...]