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Ruth Fox

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Director @HansardSociety, working to make Parliament more effective.
🎧 Co-host of the Parliament Matters podcast: buff.ly/3WbeSiY

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📣 Tomorrow: Prime Minister Keir Starmer faces questions from the House of Commons Liaison Committee. Will select committee chairs press him on the super-injunction and the Ministry of Defence 🇬🇧 data breach? Stay tuned – this is an important test of parliamentary accountability.

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Traffic chaos outside Broomfield Hospital Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust in Chelmsford today is a complete disgrace. Cars trapped in the hospital car park for over two hours due to total gridlock caused by minor roadworks on the main access road – with no traffic management in place at all.

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Three and a half hours and still stuck in the hospital car park..it's like a bad dream. And others have been here longer. How many staff could not get in or out this afternoon? How many appointments have been lost. How many people's treatment has been affected? Complete disgrace.

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It's quite straightforward. I was stuck for over 4 hours in the car park yesterday. Your 1-way system is bonkers. Traffic leaving the hospital has to turn right onto Court Road across the traffic coming into the hospital. Reverse your 1-way system. No incoming traffic should be

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The Govt has just published its latest sanctions regulations to tackle people smugglers. Thes are subject to the made affirmative scrutiny procedure. They come into force tomorrow but must be retrospectively approved by Parliament within 28 sitting days. legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/902/…

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If you've ever wondered what happens if there is a tied vote in the House of Lords (in Peers parlance an "equality of votes") the formidable Baroness Fookes has it covered in the Chair today.....⬇️

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It’s Summer Recess, so we've got some gripping parliamentary history for you 📚👑 Jonathan Healey's The Blood in Winter explores the day Charles I tried to arrest 5 MPs —and failed. 🎧 Perfect summer listening for history & politics lovers: buff.ly/JqOi8xH

It’s Summer Recess, so we've got some gripping parliamentary history for you 📚👑

<a href="/SocialHistoryOx/">Jonathan Healey</a>'s The Blood in Winter explores the day Charles I tried to arrest 5 MPs —and failed.

🎧 Perfect summer listening for history &amp; politics lovers: buff.ly/JqOi8xH
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I really don't understand fans who turn on their own players. Brendan Wiredu had a torrid debut for Argyle, but he needs support not abuse. Hope he takes heart from the experience of his Barnsley FC opponent Maël de Gevigney who gave away a pen and got subbed before HT on his