Archive for the ‘MPs’ Category

Lord Tebbit attacks campaign to ditch MPs oath to Queen

Friday, August 8th, 2008

A peer has described a campaign by a group of MPs to scrap the oath of allegiance to the Queen as an “attack on the state”.

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Ministry of Defence misled on Iraq torture, claim MPs

Sunday, July 27th, 2008

MPs and peers have claimed that a senior Army general and a defence minister
may have misled them over British troops’ use of banned interrogation
techniques in Iraq.

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India releases murderers and extortionists to vote in parliament

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

India is to temporailly release six jailed MPs to take part in a crucial vote
next week that could seal the fate of the government.

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Silvio Berlusconi sends flirty note to new MPs

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

The glint in Silvio Berlusconi’s eye has landed the Italian prime minister in trouble again, after he was caught passing a flirtatious note during a parliamentary session to two young female politicians.

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