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Will Meakin-Durrant
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Parliamentary Reporter at the PA news agency
📌 House of Commons
“A food allergy enthusiast will claim they saw a potato which has made them go blind.”

Baroness Monckton of Dallington Forest, who is opening The North Star in Brighton with her charity Team Domenica, reads some advice she got from Jeremy Clarkson about running a pub.
October 25, 2025 at 9:02 AM
After a brief speech, where he said his “marching orders” to “get Britain building again” came directly from Sir Keir Starmer, Steve Reed signed bucket hats, caps and t-shirts.
September 27, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Conservative former PM Theresa May fears the assisted dying Bill "effectively says suicide is OK”, and warned it could lead to a future "cover-up".
September 12, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch was in Little Walden today, where she tried her hand at harvesting wheat in a Claas Lexion combine harvester
August 5, 2025 at 2:47 PM
💩 Wild swimmers in Derbyshire and Staffordshire try to avoid getting a “Trent tan” when they’re in the water, says Samantha Niblett, who suggested cleaner rivers could “encourage more great exercise”.
July 21, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Embassies owe Transport for London millions after not paying the congestion charge.

A Foreign Office exercise since April has shaved £7,430 off their debts, and peers have suggested missions should face having their vehicles clamped.
July 17, 2025 at 9:28 AM
The Universal Credit Bill cleared the Commons at third reading, after it received MPs’ backing by 336 votes to 242, majority 94.

A total 47 Labour rebels voted "no".
July 9, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Ministers will remove clause 5 from the Bill, pausing their plans to withhold the Pip daily living component from claimants who fail to score at least four points in one daily living activity.
July 2, 2025 at 10:35 AM
MPs will get to debate the welfare Bill on Tuesday, says Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner, as she repeats the promise made earlier by social security minister Sir Stephen Timms.
June 25, 2025 at 2:30 PM
The welfare Bill is on for next Tuesday, says social security minister Stephen Timms. "I'm looking forward to the debate," he adds.
June 25, 2025 at 10:28 AM
The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill has reached its final stage in the Commons - a third reading debate. It will either go to the Lords for further scrutiny or fall altogether.

This all began at the private members' bills ballot last September 👇
June 20, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Ben Spencer had a Gruffalo-inspired retelling of the AI transparency debate.
June 10, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Peers for a second time backed amendment 49F - filmmaker Baroness Kidron's bid to open up AI databases so creators can see whether their works have been used as "inputs".
June 10, 2025 at 11:39 AM
REBELLION: @chrishinchliff.bsky.social led 14 other Labour MPs through the aye lobby yesterday, as he pressed his amendment 69 - for more rigorous nature protections in the Planning and Infrastructure Bill.
June 10, 2025 at 9:11 AM