House Of Commons

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    John Bercow spent £1,000 on taxi to Nottingham in final months as speaker

    Former Commons speaker John Bercow splashed out £1,000 on a taxi for a 130-mile journey that could have cost as little as £67 by train. The Mail Online reported that Mr Bercow, who stood down before the election, enjoyed a spending spree in his

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    PM declares that she is not capable of 'parliamentary ejaculation' in bizarre exchange

    Theresa May said she "wasn't capable of a Parliamentary ejaculation" in a bizarre exchange with a Labour MP over the decision to delay the Brexit vote. Huq said: "Nine times the Prime Minister assured us there would be no

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  • PoliticsAOL

    MP mocked for untucked shirt in House of Commons

    Labour MP Gareth Snell was heckled for having his shirt untucked as he got up to speak in the Commons, and apologised to his late grandmother. Speaker of the House John Bercow commented on Snell's "engaging tie" before the untucked

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    Syria poll rejects PM's 'safe' claim

    David Cameron may have won over enough Labour MPs to win a vote for airstrikes in Syria, but his justification that it would keep the UK "safe" has been dismissed in a new poll.More than half of the 18,000 votes cast in AOL UK's

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  • PoliticsAOL

    Tax credit cut: Lords did the decent thing

    The widely criticised plan to cut tax credits has been scuppered by the House of Lords, allowing low income families to breath a sigh of relief – for now. The planned cut to tax credits would have had a profound effect on low income

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  • TechnologyAOL

    Why are we paying £1m for MPs to have an iPad?

    Taxpayers will fork out £1 million so that all 650 MPs can have their own iPad. The iPad Air 2s are worth £499 each, which seems like a shocking expense, but the House of Commons Commission is claiming that the move is a sensible and frugal one.

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  • PoliticsAOL

    Cameron claims 8p off taxpayer

    Would you bother claiming 11p from the taxpayer for a plastic ruler if you earned more than £100,000 a year? Or 8p for paperclips? Ken Clarke and Prime Minister David Cameron did. Business Secretary Vince Cable additionally claimed 43p for a