Articles tagged with 'Stephen Pound'
Labour Tue 14 December 2010
Paul Flynn MP

Last words


  Richard Holbrooke's last words were 'You've got to stop this war in Afghanistan.' Today our Foreign Secretary tried to dumb down debate. Hague had promised monthly reports on the war. The first ones were oral with the chance for backbench MPs to question the Foreign Secretary. Today's report was [...]
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Conservative Wed 24 February 2010
David Jones MP

Madness in the Commons


PMQs were even more eagerly anticipated than usual today, given the incendiary allegations published in the Observer on Sunday, the flames of which had been fanned by Alistair Darling’s assertion on Sky News that No 10 had “unleashed the forces of hell” against him in 2008 for daring to predict [...]
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Labour Wed 24 February 2010
Kerry McCarthy MP

Kerry's Guide to PMQs


Here's today's running order. Expect Cameron to get in a 'forces of hell' gag which will be met with not-at-all faked hilarity from the Tory backbenchers and over-exuberant thigh-slapping from Sven. Stephen Pound, if we get to him, will by contrast be genuinely funny. Clegg might well go on the [...]
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