Unanimous concern?
Lots of alarums and excursions yesterday afternoon as rumours swept Westminster that the government was about to back off from the surprisingly strong support Gordon Brown expressed for Commons reform last week, as its internal battles over the issue play out.
The Times reported this morning that a cunning procedural device will be used to kick the proposals from Tony Wright's special Committee on Commons Reform into touch.
The proposals will be put to the Commons on 23 February as "unamendable orders". That means that if any single MP objects - and there are enough opponents that one, somewhere, is bound to put their head over the parapet - the orders cannot be introduced.
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Harriet Harman and Labour at their most devious. If you have the slightest care for the health of this once great nation, you would be doing precisely what I am to do. Send this to my MP with full condemnation. Not that Gordon Marsden gives a damn. His words are as sound as Tony Blair's were accurate in yesterdays examination.
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