The Home Office spent well over half a billion pounds on temporary staff in the last 2 years as it tried to tackle the asylum backlog In 2019-2020, the department spent £88.8m on temporary staff In the last year, it spent £269.9m reports Andrew Kersley politicshome.com/news/article/h…

Reforming Bank of England reserves could be a way for Rachel Reeves to raise money for ailing public services politicshome.com/news/article/l…

My interview with Liberal Democrats rising star Josh Babarinde OBE MP — we cover a lot 🇺🇸 Taking ex-offenders into Trump’s embassy 👞 His friendship with prisons minister James Timpson 🏡 The ultimate YIMBY: saying ‘yes’ to a house in his backyard politicshome.com/news/article/n…

One Labour MP said talk of a 50-strong rebellion on the winter fuel cut is fanciful “We can’t be a government that ducks big decisions because they’re short-term politically difficult” Tom Scotson sets the scene as Starmer & Reeves stick to their guns politicshome.com/news/article/r…

Tax The Financial Sector To Pay For Protecting Undersea Cables, Says Former Cabinet Minister politicshome.com/news/article/t…

Keir Starmer's iron first makes sense now, but it could store up problems politicshome.com/thehouse/artic…

Mad stats in Philip Cowley's history of rebellions: - the 2005 parliament (Blair/Brown) saw more Labour revolts than the whole 1974-79 period - In the 1950s, there were two whole sessions when not one government MP rebelled against the party line politicshome.com/thehouse/artic…

Just one Labour MP, John Trickett, voted against the Government in the winter fuel payment vote — he may not be a Labour MP much longer 53 Labour MPs abstained politicshome.com/news/article/l…

⚠️ NEW: "Across the country there are Tory MPs who have survived, who will have us breathing down their necks" 🗣️ Sophie Church talks to Lib Dem leader Ed Davey about his disappointment in Labour "doom and gloom" & his strategy for the next election: politicshome.com/thehouse/artic…

The IfG wades in on the the new MP v veteran MP committee chair argument: Hannah White: "As Sarah Wollaston and Rory Stewart demonstrated in the 2010 parliament, there is no reason why a first term MP cannot be an effective select committee chair...

The probation service is "in meltdown", say insiders — and that's before early releases Andrew Kersley finds services with less than half the staff they need, crying at desks, and "unmanageable" workloads preventing basic tasks like safeguarding children politicshome.com/news/article/p…

Michael Gove Says Keir Starmer Could Go "Further" Than Tories Ever Did On Justice Reform politicshome.com/news/article/m…

The PoliticsHome podcast on maiden speeches is such a fun listen Dr. Jeevun Sandher MP on delivering his own without notes, while fellow newbie Julia Buckley MP talks about taking inspiration from friend Jo Cox + tips from Robert Hutton & author Paul Richards podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the…

🚨New PoliticsHome podcast🚨 🗣️ How to make a maiden speech 🗣️ I spoke to two new MPs who’ve done theirs: Dr. Jeevun Sandher MP and Julia Buckley MP, as well as speechwriter PaulforEastbourne and sketchwriter Robert Hutton about what makes a memorable one 🎧here: pod.fo/e/268c68

Government Spent £80m Fighting Legal Challenges Against The Home Office Last Year politicshome.com/news/article/g…

The Conservative government spent more than £79m fighting legal challenges against the Home Office in 2023 — more than in the previous three years combined politicshome.com/news/article/g…

Can the 72 Lib Dem MPs stay united? 🏡 Nimby v Yimby battle “dividing” the party 💭 The new Lib Dem MP who “diverges from mainstream party thinking” ⚠️🇵🇸 “Gaza will not be a problem for us…but the next conflict might be” politicshome.com/news/article/w…

Great to see the Sunday Times follow up the story in more detail 👇

🍀 "How do we go and make our own luck?” ☝️ The big question for the Lib Dems during their autumn party conference 🔶 Zoë Crowther spoke to former party leader Tim Farron politicshome.com/news/article/t…

It’s remarkable the push back that Tom got - online and from the Government - at the time he did this story, which is now leading the BBC site. Sometimes you can just be too early to a thing…