Paul Flynn

Ned Simons

Downing Street Insists Cabinet Not Split On Economy, Defends Cabinet Secretary's Comments

HuffingtonPost.com | Ned Simons | Posted 22.04.2013 | UK Politics

Downing Street has insisted there is no cabinet split over how to revive the economy, ahead of the potentially dire GDP figures that are due to be pub...

Labour MP Kicked Out Of Commons For Calling Defence Secretary A Liar

The Huffington Post UK | Ned Simons | Posted 18.09.2012 | UK Politics

Labour backbencher Paul Flynn was kicked out of the Commons chamber on Tuesday afternoon after he called defence secretary a liar. The anti-war MP ...

Iran Is Not a Nuclear Threat to the West

Paul Flynn | Posted 12.09.2012 | UK Politics
Paul Flynn

Those who brought us Britain's role in Iraq plan a fresh war of illusion. The drumbeats are sounding and excitement is mounting as the boys anticipated playing again with the toys.

Tom Winsor Confirmed As Chief Inspector Of Constabulary

PA | Posted 03.09.2012 | UK Politics

Home Secretary Theresa May's controversial choice of a lawyer as the next Chief Inspector of Constabulary has been confirmed. Tom Winsor, who becom...

Toddler 'Died After Being Caught Up In Window Blind Cord'

PA | Posted 15.03.2012 | UK

A toddler who loved waving at people from his bedroom died when he became entangled in his window blind cord, an inquest heard today. Joshua Wakeha...

Ed Miliband Needs to Seize This Teachable Moment

Lorna Fitzsimons | Posted 06.02.2012 | UK Politics
Lorna Fitzsimons

Paul Flynn is not an anti-Semite. But his recent remarks, about the British Ambassador to Israel, Matthew Gould, gave expression, surely inadvertently, to a very old anti-Semitic idea: the eternally 'divided loyalty of the Jew.'

Labour MP Criticised For Accusing Britain's Ambassdor To Israel Of Having 'Divided Loyalties' For Being Jewish

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 01.12.2011 | UK Politics

A Labour MP has found himself in hot water after he suggested Britain's ambassador to Israel may have divided loyalties because he is Jewish. Newpo...

Tory MP Accused Of Having A 'Passion For Abusing Loveable Animals'

The Huffington Post UK | Ned Simons | Posted 02.01.2012 | UK Politics

Labour MP Paul Flynn has accused a Conservative MP of having a "passion" for animal abuse. Speaking during a Commons debate on the lobbying indust...

"We've been fighting a drugs war for 40 years, that war is lost, and completely unwinnable"

Jason Reed | Posted 22.11.2011 | UK
Jason Reed

"We've been fighting a drugs war for 40 years, that war is lost, and completely unwinnable." These were the eminent words of Mr James Duffy from Law...

Are These Men Irresistable?

www.telegraph.co.uk | Posted 03.10.2011 | UK Politics

A Labour MP has written a book which tries to explain why Commons secretaries and researchers are attracted to his “superficial, unattractive, mis-...