Richard Taylor

Cambridge MP Julian Huppert got the first question at Prime Minister’s questions on the 9th of November 2011.
After having asked the always topical question of:
If he will list his official engagements for Wednesday 9 November.
which prompted the predictable response of:
This morning I had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others and, in addition to [...]

Stephen Williams MP, Liberal Democrat Treasury Spokeman

Stephen Williams MP has today published an utterly bonkers proposal to distribute the UK state’s shareholding in the Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group to all UK adults.
I was planning to comment on his blog article in which he describes his proposals, but the comments system [...]

David Willetts MP, Minister of State for Universities and Science.

David Willetts MP, Minister of State for Universities and Science, is speaking in Cambridge this evening, the 3rd of March 2011. The event, described as “an evening with” and a “debate” rather than simply a speech, has been organised by the Cambridge University Scientific [...]

Tellers report the result of a vote on an ambiguous SNP amendment on Trident which was supported by just 27 MPs.

On the 8th of June 2010 MPs were discussing the coalition’s programme for government in the House of Commons. An archaic tradition, which does nothing for making Parliament more accessible and easy to follow, means [...]

On the 28th of April 2010 at a hustings event organised by Transition Cambridge and the University of Cambridge Geography Department I asked:
What do the panel think of the Green party candidate’s view that we should have, and it would be desirable to have, a greater fraction of our population working to obtain our food [...]