Politics.co.uk staff

Priti Patel would end Conservative infighting as leader, says MP supporter

A Conservative MP has said he will nominate former home secretary Dame Priti Patel to be the next leader of his party.

King’s Speech: how every MP voted on the SNP’s two-child benefit cap amendment

The House of Commons voted this evening by 363-103 to reject the SNP’s amendment to the King’s Speech, which called on the government to scrap the two-child benefit cap.  The amendment, tabled in the name of SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn, regretted that the King’s Speech “fails to include immediate measures to abolish the two-child… Read more »