He's certainly interested - represrenting a farming constituency and chair of the Defra Select Committee, he was bound to be (and conversely it's why he got to chair it). He was certainly o… (View Post)

Yes, a reason I was so keen on Oliver Letwin is that he was the ONLY MP I ever encountered who was willing to be persuaded in committee debate - "I see what you mean - OK, I withdraw the amendme… (View Post)

The Greens are doing very well and the SPD are down a bit, though so are the very anti-Putin FDP. There's more at work than the war, I assume: https://www.wahlrecht.de/umfragen/ There was also a… (View Post)

Yes, that's right, as I understand it, and if we allow imports below EU standards for that reason, then the checks on our exports to the EU will be much less of a formality. Also, it's unfo… (View Post)

A remarkable detail in The Times that I'd missed. "The female minister said she had also seen the MP watching pornography during a hearing of a select committee, The Times reported." H… (View Post)