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TiP: Friday 22 May 09 What should the next Speaker do? Why do some Private Members Bills flop in practice? And disquiet over the latest report on the 7/7 bombings. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TiP: Thursday 21 May 09 Victory for the Gurkhas as they win the right to settle in the UK. And the expenses row rumbles on. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TiP: Wednesday 20 May 09 A good day for the Speaker - a bad one for Peers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TiP: 19 May 2009 Making history: Michael Martin becomes the first Speaker to be forced from office for over 300 years. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TiP: 18 May 2009 The Commons Speaker Michael Martin has faced calls for a vote of no-confidence in him as recriminations continue over the MPs' expenses scandal. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TiP: Friday 08 May 09 New measures to promote equality... Euro MPs save the seals... and the problems of boozed-up Britain. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TiP: Thursday 07 May 09 The science exams taken by primary school children in England will be scrapped from next year...and opposition parties criticise plans to keep the DNA profiles of innocent people on the national database Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TiP: Wednesday 06 May 09 The Conservative leader calls for a general election - while the Prime Minister accuses David Cameron of avoiding the big issues Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TiP: Tuesday 05 May 09 Campaigners press the case for the Gurkhas and MPs are warned that press freedom is being undermined. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TiP: Friday 01 May 09 With the European elections just a matter of weeks away, Chris Mason looks into what the European Parliament actually does. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TiP: TIP Friday 01 May 09 With the European elections just a matter of weeks away, Chris Mason looks into what the European Parliament actually does. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TiP: Thursday 30 Apr 2009 Avoiding defeat the government bows to pressure and puts off plans to reform MP's second home allowance. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TiP: 30 April 2009 Avoiding deeat the government bows to pressure and puts off plans to reform MP's second home allowance. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TiP: Tuesday 28 Apr 09 Arguments have been raging in the Commons over the controversial new 50 pence top rate of tax. One Labour MP had a message for high earners thinking of leaving the country: 'good riddance'... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TiP: Monday 27 Apr 09 Swine flu: ministers move to reassure parliament and the public, saying the UK is well prepared for a flu pandemic. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TiP: Friday 24 Apr 09 Dangerous dogs, fat cats and the post Budget blues... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TiP: Thursday 23 Apr 09 The Prime Minister's plan to reform MP's expenses comes under attack from all sides of the Commons. The Tories call it "barmy". Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TiP: Wednesday 22 Apr 09 Helping people through the recession or creating a mountain of debt? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TiP: Tuesday 21 Apr 09 Policing the police - some officers' actions during the G20 protests were "unacceptable" says the incoming Chief Inspector of Constabulary. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TiP: Monday 20 Apr 09 The Home Secretary says the resignation of the UK's most senior counter terrorism officer did not make a big difference to a series of police raids earlier this month. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TiP: Friday 03 Apr 09 Is the warm glow of the Obama effect bringing more black and Asian people into politics? Or is the constant splatter of scandal deterring them? How Westminster is trying to help Iraqi women MPs. And the local MP who says he's become the latest casualty of the credit crunch Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TiP: Thursday 02 April 09 The end of the G20 summit; Boris Johnson defends his handling of London's snow; and a cry of protest from Andrew Lloyd-Webber. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TiP: 01 April 2009 As the red carpet is rolled out for the G20 leaders, at Westminster the party leaders clashed over MPs' expenses and the economy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TiP: Tuesday 31 Mar 09 The Government's announced extra help for firms struggling with a big rise in business rates and Conservatives have called on the City minister Lord Myners to resign. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TiP: Friday 27 Mar 09 Why can't our royals marry Roman Catholics? An MP tries to end "outrageous discrimination." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TiP: Thursday 26 Mar 09 MPs have been given some good news about levels of council tax in England, while peers have been weighing up the morality of offshore tax havens. Also, a Minister is warned about speaking too much jargon in the Lords. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TiP: Wednesday 25 Mar 09 The Conservatives taunt the Government over comments made by Mervyn King. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TiP: Tuesday 24 Mar 09 MPs hear words of warning over Government borrowing and its new anti-terror strategy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TiP: Monday 23 Mar 09 The Government publishes a consultation paper on a new Bill of Rights. But it won't happen before the next general election - and critics call it a cosmetic exercise. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TiP: Tuesday 17 Mar 09 MPs find themselves in contrasting debates over a banker's multi-million pound pension and benefits for single parents. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TiP: Monday 16 Mar 09 The Tories accuse finance ministers from the world's wealthiest countries of ducking the difficult issues caused by the economic downturn. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TiP: Friday 13 Mar 09 The veteran disability campaigner Jack Ashley tries again to give disabled people more control over their lives; MPs heat up their grill for a new top planner; and a peep into the EU's waiting room. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TiP: Thursday 12 Mar 09 Ministers promise an overhaul of children's services in England - after a report on Baby P. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TiP: 11 Mar 2009 A sombre Prime Minister's Questions as MPs discussed the violence in Northern Ireland - and welcomed back David Cameron. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TiP: Tuesday 10 Mar 09 Media intrusion: the press comes under fire as MPs hear a call for tougher private laws Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TiP: Monday 09 Mar 09 Politicians across Westminster have united to condemn the murder of two soldiers outside a Northern Ireland Army barracks. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TiP: Friday 6 Mar 09 A bill to help small businesses pay the rates is withdrawn in the Commons; schoolchildren quiz MPs about science; and there are demands for action to save the disappearing local pub. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TiP: Thursday 05 Mar 2009 The row over ex-bank cheif Sir Fred Goodwin's pension pot just won't go away. MPs and peers have continued to discuss how it could have been arranged and what can be done about it, if anything. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TiP: Wednesday 4 Mar 09 With Gordon Brown away, his deputy Harriet Harman faces Tory taunts over her alleged leadership aspirations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TiP:Tuesday 03 Mar 2009 The latest from Westminster on the row over the pension of the former bank boss, Sir Fred Goodwin...and the controversial system of control orders for terror suspects is renewed for another year. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TiP: Monday 02 Mar 2009 MPs reject a cap of £50,000 on political donations. And a minister in the Lords denies endorsing Sir Fred Goodwin's £650,000 pension. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TiP: Friday 27 Feb 09 The Autism Bill passes its first hurdle in the Commons...and the MP turned gremlin who's planning to stop a hidden part of the parliamentary machine Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TiP: Wednesday 11 Feb 09 Gordon Brown says it's right that a top banking regulator has resigned. But David Cameron accuses the PM of making a serious error of judgement in using Sir James Crosby as an advisor. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TiP: Tuesday 10 Feb 09 As bankers apologise for the financial crisis, MPs worry about the cost of sorting it out. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TiP: Monday 9 Feb 09 The Home Secretary condemns the remarks of a top government advisor on drugs misuse for comparing the dangers of ecstasy with horseriding Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TiP: Friday 06 Feb 09 A house divided as Peers debate recent events in Gaza. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TiP: Thursday 5 Feb 09 The Government denies that the US threatened to break off intelligence co-operation over a former British resident now held in Guantanamo Bay. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TiP: Wednesday 04 Feb 09 Prime Minister is accused of "Poor judgement" and "Opportunism" in row over foreign workers at a British Oil Refinery Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TiP: Tuesday 3 Feb 09 Tales of torture from abroad - and Boris Johnson is asked to move. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TiP: Monday 2 Feb 09 Opposition parties blame the series of wildcat strikes about the use of foreign employees on Gordon Brown's promise of British jobs for British workers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TiP: Friday 30 Jan 09 Questions over Peers' outside interests, torrid times on the Commons Treasury Committee, a budget crisis in Scotland and a looming Commons battle over buried treasure. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TiP: Thursday 29 Jan 09 A damning verdict on the Government's compensation scheme for Equitable Life policy-holders. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TiP: Wednesday 28 Jan 09 Gordon Brown and David Cameron again cross swords about responsibility for the recession...and the government's Commons majority is slashed in a vote over heathrow's third runway. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TiP: 27 Jan 09 The government's told its two billion pound package for the car industry is "small beer". Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TiP: Monday 26 Jan 2009 The House of Lords orders probes into cash allegations against four peers and its own rules. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TiP: Friday 23 Jan 09 In the row over publishing details of MPs' expenses, was it the internet wot won it? Hush Puppies versus cashmere sweaters as Ken Clarke squares up to the Business secretary Lord Mandelson; and the alternative Queen's speech: a 12-bill legislative programme due to be announced by a back-bencher. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TiP: 22 Jan 2009 The Commons backs new rules on expenses after the Government dropped plans to allow MPs to keep the details of their claims secret. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TiP: Wednesday 21 Jan 09 A day of double drama in the House of Commons. Firstly some sparky moments between the party leaders at Prime Mininster's Question time; then MPs are stunned by news of a second unexpected police raid at Westminster. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TiP: Tuesday 20 Jan 09 The post office workers' union asks the government to think again about plans to part-privatise the Royal Mail. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TiP: Monday 19 Jan 09 The Government's latest bank bailout wins a mixed reaction from MPs. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TiP: Friday 16 Jan 09 The MP who seized the Commons mace, how devolution is letting people on the Welsh border pick and choose their public services on either side, and the European Parliament celebrated ten years of the Euro. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TiP: Thursday 15 Jan 09 There's uproar in the Commons at the Government's decision to approve a third runway for Heathrow. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TiP: Wednesday 14 Jan 09 Gordon Brown says a new loan scheme for small firms will help them survive the recession - The Tories call it a 'pale imitation' of their policy and too little too late. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TiP: Tuesday 13 Jan 09 Backing business-- but new loan scheme is questioned before it's even officially announced Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TiP: Monday 12 Jan 08 Mps return after the Christmas recess with the Gaza conflict uppermost in their minds.... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TiP: Friday 19 Dec 08 Who will be helped - and who won't - as the Credit Crunch bites on the real economy? MPs prepare for a Merry Christmas and a New Year of Commons rebellions that won't be happy for everyone; and meet the Che Guevara of the parliamentary liberation army Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TiP: Thursday 18 Dec 08 Gordon Brown announces a pull-out date for British troops in Iraq ... and the Conservatives say government measures to tackle the recession aren't working. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TiP: Wednesday 17 Dec 08 The Government's handling of the economy is attacked by political opponents - as well as former ministers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TiP: Wednesday 29 Oct 08 More rows about boom and bust; goodbye to some student grants; and a startling figure about junkmail Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TiP: Wednesday 22 Oct 08 Gordon Brown raises the stakes in the row over claims that the Tories sought a donation from a Russian billionaire. 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