Prime Minister Theresa May got her withdrawal bill passed virtually unchanged in early 2018, winning every vote in the House of Commons, rejecting amendments proposed […]
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MPs face rising levels of abuse and threats
A survey by the BBC in September 2017 confirmed growing levels of abuse and death threats to MPs. This issue was sadly highlighted by the […]
Read moreTheresa May’s election gamble backfires – June 2017
The newspaper headlines said it all on the morning after the 2017 UK election. Prime Minister Theresa May lost 13 seats and in the coming […]
Read moreThe Brexit voting saga – early 2017
On March 13 2017 the lower House of Commons voted 498 to 114 in a final vote to allow Prime Minister Theresa May to invoke […]
Read moreBrexit dominates AEJ congress November 2016
Perhaps unsurprisingly the issue of Brexit was on every delegate’s mind at the AEJ’s 2016 Congress in Kilkenny in southeastern Ireland on 4 –6 November […]
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