Q&A With The Prospective Speakers

Tomorrow morning all nine MPs who want to be House of Commons Speaker after John Bercow quits on Oct 31 will submit themselves over two hours to political journalists’ questions. What single thing would you ask them? #LobbyHustings

— Christopher Hope📝 (@christopherhope) October 8, 2019

Uncooperative Crusties

Boris Johnson delivers a rip-roaring speech at the launch of the latest volume of Margaret Thatcher’s biography - says his team didn’t want him to come “because uncooperative crusties lettered the road.” But he vowed to channel the Iron Lady and come anyway

— Kate Ferguson (@kateferguson4) October 7, 2019

I think he's lost Swampy's vote!

Welcome To The Land of Stupid!

Ex-Labour leader Ed Miliband latest suggestion to become caretaker PM https://t.co/HDNNAaCDGR

— Sun Politics (@SunPolitics) October 6, 2019

Rory Stewart To Stand as Mayor of London

I am running as an Independent candidate for Mayor of London, and here’s why.

Please join me in my campaign: https://t.co/8y3xWpl9hY#Rory4London pic.twitter.com/jnaNy8IF0s

— Rory Stewart (@RoryStewartUK) October 4, 2019

Having publicly stood down and resigned from the Tory party, Rory Stewart will now stand as an independent candidate for the role of Mayor of London.

Rory Stewart Stands Down

It’s been a great privilege to serve Penrith and The Border for the last ten years, so it is with sadness that I am announcing that I will be standing down at the next election, and that I have also resigned from the Conservative Party.

— Rory Stewart (@RoryStewartUK) October 4, 2019

The Joy of Kangaroo Testicles

Boris Johnson: "If Parliament was a TV show, the whole lot of us would have been voted out of the jungle by now. But at least we'd have had the consolation of watching the Speaker being forced to eat a kangaroo testicle." pic.twitter.com/XzDAF3iGun

— LBC (@LBC) October 2, 2019

The Minimum Wage - The Curate's Egg

We’re putting more money in people's pockets by raising the National Living Wage. 4 million people will get a pay rise. #CPC19 #GetBrexitDone pic.twitter.com/pLZZ3nXu13

— Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson) October 1, 2019

Raising the minimum wage will increase the take home pay of those employed at the current minimum wage, if they keep their jobs.

The downsides are:

1 It increases the costs of the firms that employ people on minimum wages.

2 It increases the likelihood that staff will be laid off, in order to reduce increased costs.

3 Increased costs may well be passed on to the consumer.