Tony Baldry

Member of Parliament for North Oxfordshire

Whilst people are understandably concerned about high petrol and diesel prices, these price increases are not as a consequence of increased taxes.

Sheila Coleman

Researcher, Hillsborough Justice Campaign

The recent debate in the House of Commons over releasing documents related to the Hillsborough disaster was not really a debate at all. There was no dissent. All present agreed that all documents should be released. "Brilliant result", one might say. Or was it?

Joan Bakewell

Broadcaster and writer, now serving in the House of Lords

So the Liberal Democrats have fallen in line behind their Tory masters over the Health and Social Care Bill. Both last night in the House of Lords and in a letter in today's Guardian, they declare that "the time for declaratory statements is past." Well, they can speak for themselves. Plenty of people in the country at large are still disturbed by what the Tory Health Bill will mean for them and want to hear those concerns expressed. There's still a chance to do so in the House of Lords as we examine clause by clause of this massive bill.

Olivia Seccombe

Policy Researcher, Countryside Alliance

The beginning of November sees us enter autumn in earnest; the clocks go back, the nights draw in and there is an ever-present chill in the air. This weekend also heralds the beginning of the hunting season, with hunts up and down the country holding their opening meets.

Baroness Thornton

Labour’s shadow health minister in the Lords

Today, the Health and Social Care Bill continued its tortuous passage through Parliament, with its first day of Committee on the floor of the Lords. To kick things off, Labour's front bench tabled an amendment on 'the Principles of the NHS'.

Lord Corbett

Chairman, British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom

Cross-Party MPs and Peers as well as prominent jurists at a Parliamentary meeting in London on Tuesday called on the UK, EU and US to urgently propose a draft text to the UN Security Council approve the stationing of blue-helmet UN security forces at Camp Ashraf to prevent another major massacre when the US forces leave Iraq at the end of the year.

Mary Creagh

Shadow Environment Secretary and Labour MP for Wakefield

The fruit harvest is nearly over. The best of British apples, pears and plums are on the shelves of supermarkets, local shops and market stalls across the country. But have you ever stopped to think about the hand that picked them?

Anna Bird

Acting Chief Executive, the Fawcett Society

90 years after women first got the vote, men outnumber women 4 to 1 in Parliament. It's not just the lack of women in politics generally that's concerning, it's also their virtual absence in the higher echelons of government.

Mark Seddon

Big Think blogger and British journalist

While Britain's professional political class effected an historical and empty collusion on Monday, events will continue to run ahead of them. That is until the grown-ups decide to step into the breach.

Margot James

MP for Stourbridge

Several months ago, when it became clear that the Eurozone was in crisis I argued that the price of any co-operation required from the UK should be that we are freed from intervention by Brussels in areas that should be the preserve of member states.

Theodora Clarke

Lecturer and commentator

This referendum would be a chance to restore UK democracy. Laws in the UK should be ones that we want, not ones imposed on us from across the Channel. If the outcome of today's debate is to hold a referendum on the EU then I hope that David Cameron will support it.

Paul Maynard

Conservative MP for Blackpool North and Cleveleys

This is a historic opportunity, the type which this country too often foregoes through lack of self-confidence. If there is one thing I do not want to see, it is this House debating the issue of inter-city capacity in 10 years time because we averted our eyes from the strategic challenge now.

Angela Eagle

MP for Wallasey and Shadow Leader of the House of Commons

It was 24 October 1961 that old Etonian Tory Prime Minister Harold Macmillan faced Labour's leader Hugh Gaitskill across the dispatch box in the first session of Prime Minister's Questions.

Rupert Myers

Writer on society and current affairs

The price of government is compromise, and whilst the short term impact of this position may be to make Nigel Farage's soap-box a little taller, sensible Conservatives everywhere must have patience, and wait for a stronger position from which to challenge the status quo.

Mhairi Fraser

Political researcher

Whether Fraser wins the leadership election or not, I hope that the Scottish Conservatives win back the faith of the electorate and are able to resist the destruction of the Union - because I am Scottish, and I am British, and I am equally proud to be both.

Sean Dilley

Parliamentary Lobby Journalist for UTV's talkSPORT

He pledged more free votes on matters of conscience and promised to re-empower the House of Commons in policy decisions, but David Cameron's given himself a headache that he must surely now be regretting.