Read about some of the stranger things found in Hansard, the official record of what happens in Parliament.
Lord St John of Fawsley asked the Chairman of Committees: Whether the arrangements made with regard to the latest House of Lords Christmas cards were satisfactory. … Read the full post »
Simple question: which MP once triggered a point of order in the House of Commons for attempting to vote in their pyjamas? … Read the full post »
Jeremy Corbyn signed an Early Day Motion in Parliament attacking humanity as “obscene, perverted, cruel, uncivilised and lethal”. … Read the full post »
The payment of £341 listed under subhead “B4: Palestine” in the 1981–82 Appropriation Accounts was for a new artificial leg for Mr. M. A. Issa, who used to work for the former Palestine Government. … Read the full post »
It’s time to bring this series of entries from Hansard’s past to a pause as there are only so many speeches about paperclips and potato salad to be written. … Read the full post »
It’s an obvious road safety move isn’t it? Don’t lets cars loose in our roads unless each of them has its own steam-roller heading in front of it. And a person with a red flag in from of the steam-roller. … Read the full post »
Michael Meacher has been an MP for a long time. So long in fact that it was he who, as a government minister in January 1977, gave a written answer revealing… … Read the full post »
It’s May 1971 and the House of Lords is debating the weighty matter of industrial relations. Step forward Lord Mansfield. … Read the full post »
When Parliament gets involved, of course. Step forward Arthur Champion in May 1956, Labour MP for South East Derbyshire. … Read the full post »
It’s 2003. Parliament is debating foreign surveillance. The then Home Secretary, David Blunkett, is debating a point with Liberal Democrat MP David Heath. … Read the full post »