Leicester Mercury Political correspondent
Westminster
A short adjournment
Jul 30th
An email has just landed in my inbox via the servers of the Parliamentary Estate:
“I am an avid reader of your blog, as I am sure many others are also. You really do have plenty of people guessing at some of your sources…”
Flattering, but unfortunately things will be quiet around here for the next five days. I’m out of Leicester for a few days, and I’ll be back on Wednesday.
Advice to newly-elected MPs – be more like Rees-Mogg
Jul 11th
Leicestershire has three ‘fresher’ MPs in this Parliament, and the Daily Mail’s Quentin Letts has some sound advice to all newly-elected Parliamentarians.
Discussing “throwback” Jacob Rees-Mogg he wrote:
Jacob has put in plenty of hours in the Commons. He has sat at the far end, watching, learning.
He has not asked patsy questions. He has not been a blowhard.
He has kept his distance from ministers and is a lesson to Westminster’s stooges and government grovellers and soundbite-spouting careerists.
All power to his angular elbow.
It’s worth reading the full article here.
