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Despite the number of women candidates rising at almost every general election since 1966, the numbers remain painfully low when it comes to party selection, 50:50 Parliament Campaign spokesperson Katy Roxburgh writes.
Boris Johnson's majority in the House of Commons could be reduced to one.
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New PM will make winning a confidence vote a priority, amid fears that sacking ministers would create instant rebels.
Serjeant at Arms Kamal El-Hajji will step down at the end of July.
Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party has failed in its first attempt to put an MP in the House of Commons after Labour held off a strong challenge to pull off a surprise victory in the Peterborough by-election. Labour’s Lisa Forbes managed to retain her seat, beating Mike Greene into second place by 10,484 votes to 9,801 - a majority of 683.
She made headlines as the first MP to bring her baby to a House of Commons debate.
MPs will move in during the mid-2020s so the Palace of Westminster can be restored.
In the latest sign politics is broken, MPs have been ejected due to a major water leak.
EU leaders have reacted to last night’s House of Commons chaos, with EU Brexit co-ordinator Guy Verhofstadt saying that a no-deal Brexit is “nearly inevitable”. Chief EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier saying this morning that a no-deal Brexit “looks very likely”, and that they agreed a deal with the UK four months ago.