Cherilyn Mackrory

The cost of government borrowing for 30 years has just hit 5.6%, compared to the worst one day spike to 4.8% under Truss. Rachel Reeves said that rate had crashed the economy. Oh dear, what has the Chancellor done?

@timothy_stanley When an MP intervenes or answers an intervention, convention is that is on the same subject matter. The PM doesn’t even refer to the subject matter in some answers. I genuinely think there IS something Mr Speaker could enforce here.

Tories ask if Parliament rules need changing to ensure the PM actually answers a question. Speaker, at his best, replies: “there is a weakness in that [suggestion] in that it assumes the person knows the answer.”

@sharrond62 Completely agree. As someone who chaired the APPG for Baby Loss for nearly 5 years, our abortion laws were not broken (didn’t need ‘fixing’). The missing part is face to face care and compassion. Costs too much, I expect. Shameful.

Couldn’t sleep last night! I fear it’s a grave mistake allowing a woman to abort a full term healthy baby for any reason & to not reinstate face to face consultations for abortion pills only safe to use up to ten weeks. Telemedicine is too easily lied to & undoubtedly will be. It’s already estimated 1 in 17 home abortions end up in A&E. There will be many more. It’s abandoning safeguarding for ease & any civilised rights a viable, innocent baby has. We have one of the longest abortion periods at 24 weeks in Europe & support for clinical abortion to term if any medical risk to the mother. I hope any future government will repeal this extension. And that we don’t lose women taking pills not designed to be used after ten weeks or paramedics called to homes unsure what to do with a live miscarried baby whose mother chose to terminate it? It’s a sad day

“I say to the Government, take this House more seriously. Members of Parliament are having a very bad time from Government, who seem to have a total disregard for us.” Yesterday the Speaker of the House was forced to intervene as the Government refuses to answer my question and reveal how many noise and vibration injuries were sustained in Ajax after the Initial Operating Criteria was achieved but prior to Exercise Titan Storm, after Initial Operating Capability had been declared. They’ve been sat on the information for over two months.

"Vegan leather" is plastic. "Vegan wool" is plastic. "Vegan fur" is plastic. Every wash cycle releases microplastics into the water. Every year it degrades slightly and releases more. At end of life it will sit in landfill for four hundred years or end up in the ocean. The sheep, meanwhile, grows a new coat every year, requires it removed, and produces a fibre that has been biodegradable since the Neolithic. But yes. The sheep is the environmental problem. The sheep, standing in the Lake District in the rain, growing renewable fibre from grass. The sheep.

Boris Johnson was referred to the Privileges Committee, aka the Kangaroo Court, for far less.

Removing hereditary Peers from the House of Lords means that the Upper Chamber will increasingly be filled with political appointees. Hereditaries owed no loyalty to a party. Their sole responsibility was to the British people. To lose them is a great shame.

My Conservative team will continue to fight against this Government's unjust and misguided attempt to restrict jury trials. @Geoffrey_Cox lays out why we will defend this institution and why it is so important that we succeed👇 "There are some things that have to be above politics.... "Jury trial is one of those institutions that have been defended by those across the aisle from me, on the opposite extreme of the political spectrum, and by those on our side of the House, out to the furthest waters of the right. "Why is that? Because the administration of justice must be a non-ideological space. Jury trial unites us all for a simple reason: it is the most powerful instrument and engine of social justice that this country has ever invented. "It is a safeguard against oppression. It is a built-in defence against establishment and administrative power.”

Why aren’t prime ministers forced to answer questions?

If you ever wanted proof that the PM rehearses his answers at PMQs and can't pivot, that was is.

@reporterboy I heard this. He didn’t have the figures, yet thought he could‘reassure’ us. Hopeless!

Independent expert Steve Reed

I am concerned about families in my constituency and across Britain being exploited by heating oil suppliers breaking their contracts at this time of rising prices. The market is beset with bad practice at the best of times, but with events in the Middle East and Labour continuing to double down on their anti-North Sea oil and gas policies, the situation is critical. That’s why Conservative MPs and I have called on the CMA to open an investigation into the heating oil market. These households do not have a powerful lobby to speak for them and the CMA needs to ensure the law is enforced against predatory suppliers.

If ever there was a cause for western feminists and liberals to back it’s this. A women’s football team collectively standing up to a brutal islamofacist regime - risking all of their lives in the process. It’s the kind of story of extraordinary courage that will one day be told in a Hollywood movie. But there’s been barely a peep from them. Why? Is their activism nothing more than safe performative signalling? Will none of them break ranks? It’s awful

@BotFinderUK check the order date for the kit, oh and the reason their is no Type 45 is because Chx Reeves loaded lots of unfunded costs pressures on the department forcing them to cut £2bn of in year training and operations. That’s all on this bunch.

Cyprus High Commissioner Kyriacos Kouros sounding furious about the lack of British action to defend RAF Akrotiri, telling @skynews: 'Greek forces are present on the island, the French are coming - the least we expect is the British are present'

This guy was among the smartest I came across in my time in FCDO. 👇🏻 Another is currently fielding the most almighty transatlantic frictions as our new Ambassador in Washington.

Now that @RachelReevesMP has delivered her Spring Statement highlighting her awful economic policies, and Labour’s spending spree using taxpayer’s money, it seems only right to dust off this clip of @RishiSunak …he was right…again

Utter charlatan. Note: chameleon’s aren’t permanently green.