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CARDIFF West MP, Kevin Brennan, has been promoted in Labour's Shadow Cabinet to the position of Shadow Minister for Schools.The first Shadow Cabinet under the leadership of the new Labour Leader, Ed Milliband, features a strong contingent of nine Welsh MPs across several departments.Mr Brennan will be part of a [...]

THE VOTES have been counted and I’m chuffed to bits to have maintained the top position in the MPs’ category of the Total Politics Top Blog Awards 2010. This is despite some serious competition from (among many others) John Redwood, Douglas Carswell, Tom Watson, Lynne Featherstone and Kerry McCarthy. So, thank you [...]

Please understand that I’ve been a bit busy and so I haven’t sadly been able to blog as much as I would have liked, what with the general election (and local elections in Stockport and Tameside (have to keep my councillors sweet!)).  I know the first rule of blogging is [...]

Loughborough MP Andy Reed today said he was delighted that the Labuor government had committed to legislating on the issue of Vulture Funds after the Private Bill he co-sponsored was scuppered by Tory Backbenchers. "It was an outrage that the Conservatives worked to block Andrew Gwynne's Private Members Bill in Parliament, [...]

PREDICTABLY, the right-wing blogs will pour scorn on attempts to embarrass the Tories over their successful attempt to scupper Andrew Gwynne’s anti-poverty Private Member’s Bill. They will use the following excuses: 1. The Bill was flawed and wouldn’t have accomplished what it intended, or worse – it would actually make things worse. 2. [...]

Hilary Armstrong MP is co-sponsoring the the debt Relief (developing Countries) bill,  otherwise known as the ‘vulture funds bill’, a Private Member’s Bill introduced by Andrew Gwynne MP Nearly 200 MPs, as well as many anti-poverty groups, churches and celebrities, are backing the bill which is set to restrict the activities [...]

Some of you may be aware that Andrew has been under the weather recently with a fairly serious suspected chest infection — He went in to hospital yesterday for a follow-up and they have decided to admit him for a few days to get him put right and back to full health.  [...]

My colleague Jamie Reed has just popped into the whips office and told me off for not having looked at his blog yet: so here it is, and very excellent it is too. My colleague Andrew Gwynne has also been nagging me from his sickbed to give his new blog [...]