Ahahahaha this is a great idea

Excellent. That’ll pay for another few weeks of nursery.

Sorry, going to be late to pick the toddler up from nursery, it’s time for my 15 minutes managing Chelsea

oh no Chelsea

oh no

What next for restoration and renewal of parliament? | Institute for Government An expert panel explores how parliament should approach the major restoration project, including lessons from other countries and industry.

Excited to be be part of this brilliant @instituteforgovernment.org.uk panel discussion on R&R next month. Register here: www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/what-n...

hence why I would be good at research

I appreciate this is a vast over-simplification but the meme template can only cope with so much

Bob Mortimer on Would I Lie To You meme. Caption reads Once, while aiming for poorly defined regime change in another country, left it without a clear leadership structure that I could then negotiate with. in response my opponents closed a major shipping artery and i then blockaded it myself to get them to open it, while agreeing to a ceasefire i then kept extending, despite repeated threats, because it wasn't clear who i should negotiate with (see above)

Thank you for your attention to this matter

Least important aspect of it but I do find “3 or 4 BIG HELPS” inadvertently hilarious

The mental journey of going from ‘no, that screenshot of POTUS’ latest ramblings must be fake’ to realising that it is, in fact, not

ask him if he’s going to do a follow-up to Dear England and needs an assistant for Gareth Southgate-related research

So it’s not that MPs can’t claim the Commons has been misled or accuse another MP of lying. It’s that they can’t just stand up in the Chamber and do it!

And again, the rule is that you can’t just stand up in the Chamber and make an accusation of lying. But there is a process that MPs can go through if they think the Commons has been misled.

If MPs can just stand up and make accusations about other MPs, rather than doing so through a substantive process, then it’s possible that debates in the Commons just turn into the slinging of accusations (be they with merit or not) rather than actually dealing with issues.

Misleading parliament and correcting the parliamentary record | Institute for Government The clearest rules about making inaccurate statements to parliament mostly come from outside of parliament.

As a reminder
- No, you can’t accuse another MP of lying in the Commons
- Yes, it is broadly sensible that MPs can’t just stand up and accuse each other of lying
- Yes, there is a substantive process that can be used if an MP is felt to have misled the House
- Yes MPs know what the rules are

So this is kind of important. Why is it right that Romeo and Little waited a month to disclose to the PM that they now knew about the vetting outcome, versus why Robbins chose not to. Starmer says they were right to await legal advice.

Key q for Robbins whether he took legal advice.

Misleading parliament and correcting the parliamentary record | Institute for Government The clearest rules about making inaccurate statements to parliament mostly come from outside of parliament.

BINGO!

Couldn't have gone a whole session about PM correcting the record without someone getting themselves named (chucked out) for 'using unparliamentary language' (calling the PM a liar).

Explanation here (and why Speaker made a statement). www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainer/mi...

Look, I'm sorry, we can't have the PM giving a statement in the Commons and Trump doing his morning social posts at the same time, it's too much

Making a correction to Hansard - MPs' Guide to Procedure - UK Parliament Read guidance for MPs and their staff on 'Making a correction to Hansard' in the House of Commons.

PM will make a ministerial statement in Parliament. We hear that he's going to 'admit he inadvertently gave MPs misleading information' (guardian).

But the nerd in me wants to know if he's going to do a proper correction using the suggested wording... guidetoprocedure.parliament.uk/articles/wT3...

Absolutely spot-on from @hannahkeenan.bsky.social, who reminds us that "process is no substitute for judgement"

The Mandelson vetting blame-game is causing serious damage to ministerial-civil service relations | Institute for Government The sacking of Olly Robbins has been badly handled by Keir Starmer.

As we gear up for the PM's statement, check out this key analysis from my brill @instituteforgovernment.org.uk colleague @hannahkeenan.bsky.social- all you need to know about what's happened and what impact it's having on an already fragile system:

www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/mand...

some things about becoming a parent are radicalizing in ways I expected - e.g being reminded viscerally how screwed we'd all be if childcare and other care work disappeared. but other things are radicalizing in ways I didn't - like experiencing constant spontaneous solidarity in ways big and small

The obscure Representation of the People Act 1918,

I get that it's Little Miss Nerd over here saying this, but generally the speed with which legislation/parliamentary procedure/etc is often referred to as obscure/arcane/archaic etc isn't very helpful.

Not a comment on the specific issues involved, but not sure the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act can really be described as "obscure" as per Playbook this morning.

It's a pretty significant area of legislation in many areas and was only passed in 2010!

And it’s only Sunday evening

No

Ok fine it was quite good fun and definitely better than watching on tv.

Also, crucially, we have managed to time our respective trains so that we cannot watch the Arsenal game. Oh no.

Either I will be converted to snooker or I will ruin it for @gavinfreeguard.com for life. Could go either way

Ha! Victoria Quarter?