
This week Labour Cabinet Minister Liz Kendall announced that ‘WASPI’ (Women Against State Pension Inequality) women won’t get any redress for Government mistakes which caused injustice to some (although not all) of them. That’s in spite of her (along with…
The Government have, at last, appointed the new Anti-Corruption Champion after a whopping 917 days of vacancy. Previous Anti-Corruption Champion John Penrose congratulated the new champion, Baroness Hodge of Barking, on her new role within the government, highlighting her record…
John Penrose joins Jacob Rees-Mogg on State of The Nation to discuss how Rachel Reeves’ 1st budget massaged the figures to justify more borrowing, and how a new National Balance Sheet would keep politicians honest by revealing what they’re really…
Rachel Reeves is in a bind. Not just because of ‘did they or didn’t they’ arguments about whether Labour fibbed about long-planned tax rises during the election, or because all those bushy-tailed new Labour MPs and battle-scarred union bosses want…
John Penrose and former Labour adviser John McTernan discuss the news that the PM will pay back some of his gifts.
In response to Beth Rigby’s tweet above, John said: This won’t solve the Government’s integrity problems I’m afraid, for several reasons: 1. It isn’t leadership. Starmer isn’t requiring other Ministers to follow his example or change what they’re doing. 2.…
The Telegraph was recently forced to issue the following statement: The Telegraph is aware of an image circulating on X which purports to be a Telegraph article about ’emergency detainment camps’. No such article has ever been published by the…
The Following article was written by Zoe Crowther and published on Politics Home. Former Conservative MP John Penrose has called for MP voting rounds in Tory leadership contests to be made public to help the party stop choosing “problematic leaders”. This, he said, would make the…
During a panel, John is asked what he would do to tackle the worrying rise in misinformation and disinformation.