Peter Bottomley

Theresa May, previous PM referred to Brighton & Hove

On Tuesday afternoon in Parliament following from the Presentation by the King Charles III setting out his first session there were a number of MPs who spoke in response. One of them was Caroline Lucas from Brighton Pavilion and the only other one in Sussex was Peter Bottomley from Worthing West. However another person who spoke during the session did mention Brighton and Hove. It was Theresa…

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The Church of England currently teaches two totally incompatible visions of God. On the one hand, there is a gospel of grace, where the love of God is unconditional and available to all. On the other, there is a God who places restrictions on that grace and asks the church to act as the gatekeeper. The latter teaches that if someone like me, a lesbian, has sex then I will go to hell – a truth as central to this branch of faith as believing in the virgin birth or the resurrection.

For years, the church’s solution to this contradiction has been to kick the can marked “LGBT+ relationships” down the road, and the “historic” proposals announced last month on sexuality were no exception. They continue to embed discrimination by refusing to recognise civil marriage as “holy matrimony” and only offer token prayers of blessing to gay couples, cunningly blessing the individuals rather than their union. There are also many shades of grey – especially as to whether our unions can actually now be consummated. All this from our established church, the official state church that operates thanks to delegated powers from parliament, which continues to be allowed to discriminate against those it serves.

This is an unholy fudge. It is a mess designed to try to keep us all happy but that has only succeeded in upsetting everyone. Progressives are angry – they know that while discrimination remains embedded in our teaching, LGBT+ people’s lives will continue to be severely impacted and pose a major safeguarding risk. Conservative Christians are miserable, issuing a statement saying that any hint of change will mean that they will call on their churches to leave the established church.

The church cannot be allowed to continue kicking the can down the road. That is why I have tabled an amendment at the General Synod next week, requesting that provisions for equal marriage legislation be brought back to the synod at its next meeting in July. I am not alone – following her tea with the archbishop of Canterbury, Sandi Toksvig has concluded that “the present position is untenable”. Parliament was also given a warning by Peter Bottomley, the father of the House, during an urgent question last week, when he said that “the Church of England needs to wake up”. Even Penny Mordaunt, leader of the House of Commons, has said as much in a letter to her bishop.

The proverbial can in this scenario is the LGBT+ community and our relationships, and we get badly hurt every time it is kicked. Current church teaching has already cost far too many LGBT+ lives. It has led to countless LGBT+ teenagers being rejected by their families while others are crushed by heavy weights of shame and guilt. A large number have left the church, such as Wes Streeting MP, who last week in parliament told his own story of rejection and hurt.

Against this backdrop, my synod amendment also proposes that we remove the apology that the bishops have tabled in their motion, which seeks to “lament and repent” for the harm that the church has “caused and continues to cause” LGBT+ people. I believe this would be better until such a time that this discrimination, the “kicking”, embedded in the current proposals ends. Put simply, it is sheer hypocrisy for the church to apologise while at the same time wilfully enabling the abuse to continue. It is also hypocritical for the archbishop of Canterbury to say that he “joyfully celebrates” the provision of prayers of blessing for gay couples while refusing to say the prayers himself and while stating that he would rather the church be disestablished than split over same-sex marriage.

The powers that be in the Church of England would like us to accept that this is just an issue of differing “points of view” with each having equal merit, despite the harm that is inflicted on the lives of LGBT+ people. It won’t work. Those vigorously opposed to equal marriage will never accept there is a diversity of views on this. To them, prayers, blessings, marriage are all the same – if any ground is conceded then all is lost. That is why the matter needs settling now, once and for all.

I understand it was political expediency rather than doctrinal theology that lay behind the bishops’ proposals, as they did not believe that a vote on equal marriage would get sufficient support in the synod. Rather than capitulating to these fears our bishops – and indeed all those on the synod – need to show some spiritual leadership and embrace the Anglican moral tradition of conscience, making room for a plurality of views.

Unless we do, I foresee this will be the hill on which the Church of England, quite literally, will die.

Tuesday 15 October 1833

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a little German - found letter from my aunt Shibden on my breakfast table dated Tuesday the 1st inst. all well and good enough business-news but my aunt has got a bad ankle - the skin broke and discharges deal (‘white matter’) a good and she suffers much from it, but Mr Sunderland gives hopes of it - tho’ he does not dare heal it, for fear of bad consequences - perhaps my poor aunt will have this open sore as long as she lives - the Brighouse road turnpike interest, it seems, cannot be paid off - it must be funded and then interest to be paid on the whole in future - Eh bien! be it so – Washington has, at last, settled with Mrs. Walsh and her son, and bought all the ground cut off from the Sour milk hall land by the new Godley road for £160 at 6d. per yard = 6400 yards – I am very glad of it – W- has had a letter from Mr. Lister to say, it would not be convenient for him to have a lawsuit

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with the Misses Walker of Walterclough – foolish enough de sa part to write at all to W- about it, after my saying that I would pay the expense and charge him nothing, but merely take the water rent towards payment – the Lower water business is before counsel – Jonathan Mallinson has got good water to his house from a new spring found under the new road – more water got to the Shibden reservoir by opening out old drains – my [aunt] paid £36.15.0 to Miss Hebden the other day for taking Charlotte Booth for 3 years – the girl was to go to her as last Monday week the 7th instant – John Bottomley has foolishly given Green leave to go along the new road on his (Green’s) saying I had given him leave – my poor aunt should send them all to Washington - Miss Walker writes to her aunt of returning tho’ she had not mentioned it to Mrs Sutherland on account of her  Mrs S-’s not being well - why have I not heard from Mrs S-? a few lines after finishing the letter to stay Mr Sunderland just had called and thought the ankle going on well - breakfast at 11 - Brioche from Lady Harriet with a little note to say she had paid 3 marks for it which I might send back by the servant or pay herself! wrote note of thanks and enclosing the 3 marks - wrote also to Mr Browne - ‘Miss Lister presents her compliments to Mr Browne and regrets  very much being in the country when he was so good to call on Friday. Finding that being presented at court might make her winter here more agreeable, Miss Lister would be glad to have her audience before the Queen’s birthday - Miss Lister is very much obliged for the bible and testament for which she will be glad to pay the bible society when she has the pleasure of seeing Mr Browne’ - ‘Peter Brown Esquire H.B. M.S. chargé d’affaires’  - wrote the above of today and out at 1 - threatening rain - turned back for 10 minutes - then out again - at Comtesse Blucher’s at 1 25 for ½ hour rained as I got there and all the time and all the way back - home at 2 ¼ - going to have an audience of one of the princess at 7 this evening - I to be at the Blucher’s at 8 and go with them to the Swedish and Dutch ministers - think they did not want me this morning but very civil wont go again in a morning in a hurry - wrote 3 pages large sized sheet to my aunt - chit chat - sorry about her ankle - anxious to hear from her - can write and have an answer every month - mention my 2 days in the country to see Roskilde and slept at Madame Rosenkrantz’s  - widow of the late Danish prime minister, born a princess of Russia - a charming person - mornings and evenings cold - F about 46° between 6 and 7 am in the country - shall not stir much from Copenhagen till I can regularly begin my travels again - then at middle of page 2 began with business - ‘I wonder at your telling me the Brighouse road had proposed to pay off the arrears of interest - it is all very well whether it can or not - leave the matter to Washington - he will do what is right - I am very glad he has settled with Mrs Walsh and her son, and bought the land - as soon as he gets possession tell him to move back again the bit of walling that was obliged to be taken down, but to put it in a straight line right across the Greensward, where he will remember I wished to have it at first, and where the line will be shortest - the more stuff they had from Halifax into that hole, the better - but Washington will know all about it - and tell John to sow acorns all over (as thick as he can) the piece of ground between Greenwoods’ field and the Godley road up to the wall Washington will put across the top - Let acorns be sown, too, on all the bare pieces of bankment in Trough of Bolland wood, and plenty in the Conery wood - John will know all about this’ - glad arbutuses do well and some Spanish chesnuts are come up - ask if none of the acorns in the walk and wheat field are come up, and how the white clover looks - Mr Lister had no occasion to write to Washington about a lawsuit being inconvenient - foolish to do so - but my aunt to take no notice of it -‘Mr Parker will do what is right - I shall perhaps hear from him before I write - he will have to tell me the opinion about the upper brea water etc but it will do by and by, as I do not mean to do anything more at present about that water’ - glad Jonathan Mallinson has got water from a spring formed in the new road - not time to turn to my book but no doubt Miss Hebden right about the sum agreed upon £36.15.0 for taking Charlotte Booth for 3 years - hope she will do well - ‘how is her scholarship?’ - right not to give her money - a little present at Xmas enough - right in Miss Hebden to get her a seat at church - ‘I am vexed at John Bottomley - I gave no leave to anybody unless to such as should pay £5 a year and help to repair the road, all which was mentioned to Washington - it is Washington who is to order all these matters. John Bottomley must inquire of him what is to be done, and not go pothering you - do tell Washington to speak to John, and see that the road is not used by anybody but the tenants, until an agreement is first made by Washington with a person who wants the road - I give no leave without Washington’s knowing of it - or what would be the use of a steward? people would be forever saying, I had said this and that - I am glad you sent to inquire after Miss Walker - always give my kind regards to her’ - not yet written to IN- or Mrs Norcliffe but think of it daily - ‘I shall make a point of answering Mariana’s letters as immediately as possible - she has my best wishes as well as yours for her future happiness - I am quite reconciled - Providence orders all things wisely; and I am thankful - everything goes on quite well with me here, and I myself am quite well’ - said I should hope to hear from my aunt every month and should write as often - dinner at 5 ½  in ½ hour - read over my letter and sent it down (for the post) at 6 ½ to ‘Mrs Lister Shibden hall Halifax, York England’ - dressed - off to comtesse Blucher’s at 8 - took up her and Miss Ferrall and went to the Dutch ministers’ - Madame and her 2 daughters and M.... the Danish Prime minister? with his gold star and white ribbed, came in - tea - staid an hour - then to Madame Falson’s for ½ hour till 9 25 to the Swedish ministers’ (pronounced Okescheeld) she and her sister Mademoiselle Oxholm Dame d’honneur to princess Charlotte and ourselves the only ladies  - several gentlemen, comte Blucher among the rest - playing cards - Madame Okescheeld   a very charming agreeable person, pale, and ladylike, and interesting, with a consumptive cough - her sister Mademoiselle Oxholm, too, plenty to say for herself and civil and agreeable -talked of English gaucheries and shyness - and some English ladies did in society what ladies of no other nation would dare to do - very agreeable evening - set down Comtesse B- and Miss Ferrall and at home at 11 ¾ - dullish morning F56° at 8 20am. but from about 12 ¼ rainy damp disagreeable day and rather windy

rainy evening too – F56° now at 12 ¾ tonight – every[body] had their stoves lighted and the rooms warm -

note from Lady Harriet by Thomas this morning – has got me a barrel of anchovies 1Th.4m.0sch.

#Breaking: New Rochdale MP #GeorgeGalloway sworn into the House of Commons

New Rochdale MP George Galloway sworn into the House of Commons He's escorted by the Alba Party's Neale Hanvey and the Father of the House Peter Bottomley https://t.co/N27IQaZOH9 pic.twitter.com/bHmzOqmzu0 — BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) March 4, 2024 Source: X

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Rishi Sunak will press ahead with plans to ban conversion therapy, including for transgender people, after a backlash from Conservative MPs and warnings that ministers could quit.

The prime minister will include a draft bill in the King’s Speech which will ban attempts to change someone’s sexuality and gender identity in England and Wales. It will make doing so a criminal offence.

Sunak had been considering dropping the bill amid claims of “unintended consequences” for teachers, parents and therapists helping children who are struggling with their gender identity. Some Tory MPs have warned that they could effectively be criminalised.

However, Simon Hart, the chief whip, warned that the government could face a revolt if it failed to go ahead with the ban.

There were concerns that Tory MPs could join Labour in backing amendments to the crime and justice bill to introduce a conversion therapy ban. This would put a flagship part of Sunak’s legislative agenda at risk.

Stuart Andrew, the equalities minister, was also said to be prepared to consider his position if the government failed to go ahead with the ban.

More than a dozen Tory MPs, including two ministers, complained to the chief whip last month after Suella Braverman, the home secretary, said that homosexuality should not by itself allow people to claim asylum.

One MP who has campaigned for the change said: “Simon has been brilliant on this. He’s listened to our concerns and been a real champion for us. He gets it.”

It is an issue that polarises Conservative MPs, with those on the right expected to oppose the ban amid claims that teachers and parents could face criminal sanctions if they advise children against changing their gender.

The government has previously said that it would ensure that the bill did not have such “unintended consequences” and would protect “legitimate conversations” between parents, clinicians and children.

Kemi Badenoch, the women and equalities minister, has expressed reservations about the plans but is not expected to oppose them.

Sir Peter Bottomley, a Tory MP, said: “Over the last three years I and others have asked a succession of ministers and their officials to name one or more of the practices they intend to criminalise which are not already criminal. There is no specific answer.

“The government is facing a choice of splitting the Tory party on this or leaving this on one side until it’s clear that there’s a need for precise legislation which will stop things that should be criminal happening. Without being specific about what you are criminalising you are putting parents at risk, you are putting other advisers and supporters of children at risk.”

The promise to ban conversion therapies was first made by Theresa May in 2018 but has been repeatedly delayed. The government said in 2018 that it wanted to end “abhorrent conversion practices”, sometimes known as “gay cures”. These ranged from “pseudo-psychological treatments” to, in the most extreme cases surgical intervention and “corrective rape”.

Sunak was planning to shelve the legislation and instead offer draft guidance, which would have highlighted existing laws. However concerns over shelving the ban — both inside and outside government — came to the fore after the Conservative Party conference, when Braverman claimed that being gay or a woman should not be enough to qualify for refugee protection.

Braverman used the example to argue that the threshold for claiming asylum had been weakened from a “well-founded fear” of persecution to a “plausible fear” of discrimination as part of a wider speech about the dangers of uncontrolled immigration.

Her comments sparked a revolt among gay Tory MPs who accused her of bigotry and, with several heterosexual colleagues, lodged a complaint with Hart. They warned that Braverman’s comments risked tarnishing the Conservative’s reputation on LGBTQ issues and could cost them votes.

The group of MPs who complained about Braverman to the chief whip were also furious with Downing Street for signing off the speech, with one MP questioning the “instincts of some of the people at the top of the party”.

They pointed out there has not been a single openly gay minister appointed to the cabinet by Rishi Sunak, Liz Truss or Boris Johnson.

Hart was said to be incensed days later when Braverman doubled down on her comments by attacking her critics, including Elton John, in a newspaper interview and her conference speech, branding the singer and other critical celebrities the “luxury beliefs brigade”.

One MP who complained about Braverman’s comments said they fear the LGBTQ community will turn against them whenever they start talking about immigration. “People will just brand us homophobic and misogynistic whenever we raise the need to reform the asylum system. She’s taken the party backwards with that one speech.”

Another MP branded Braverman’s comments about gay refugees “poisonous,” adding: “It’s going back to an era that I thought our party had left behind.”

A source close to Braverman said that she was making a general point that it is unsustainable to offer refugee protection to anyone who is gay or a woman and may fear discrimination and dismissed the criticism from her colleagues as coming from MPs who already disliked the home secretary.

Analysis

After months of bitter internal debate within the Conservative Party, Rishi Sunak has come to a decision (Steven Swinford writes). The King’s Speech on November 5 will include a draft bill banning conversion therapy, making it a criminal offence to attempt to force someone to change their gender or sexual orientation.

The legislation represents a significant moment, both for the Conservative Party and society. Theresa May, the former prime minister, first pledged to ban conversion practices in July 2018.

However, the legislation was repeatedly delayed, not least because of the debate it provoked within the Conservative Party. Tory MPs on the right of the party — including some ministers — raised concerns about “unintended consequences”.

They said that because the legislation would protect trans people from conversion, it could effectively criminalise parents, teachers and others who offer children struggling with their gender identity support.

Under Rishi Sunak the government’s position has repeatedly shifted. In January Michelle Donelan, the then culture secretary, insisted that it was going ahead with appropriate protections for parents and teachers to ensure they could have “legitimate” conversations with children about gender identity.

However, Sunak was said to have raised concerns about the necessity for legislation, especially given the limited amount of parliamentary time before the general election. Officials in No 10 drafted guidance highlighting existing criminal legislation which, they argued, already outlawed the worst of the conversion practices.

Tory MPs pushing for the ban — both gay and heterosexual — argued that it was not enough, and warned that it would ultimately cost the Conservative Party votes at the general election. A pledge was a pledge, they said, and the Tories should honour it.

Sunak’s position shifted after Conservative Party conference, where Suella Braverman, the home secretary, delivered a speech claiming that fearing being gay or a woman should not be enough to qualify for refugee protection.

The debate surrounding the conversion therapy ban intensified. Behind the scenes, ministers made it clear that they would be willing to quit if Sunak failed to go ahead with it. Hart warned No 10 that there would be a potential mass rebellion, with Tory MPs amending the crime and justice bill — a flagship piece of legislation in the King’s Speech — to force the government to ban conversion therapy.

In the end they won the day. However, as ever in politics every action provokes a reaction. Sunak now faces a backlash from the right of the party, a battle which is likely to continue as the bill goes through parliament. Sunak, having staved off one revolt, may find himself with another on his hands.

Close Associate of Roman Abramovich Key Partner of UK Parliamentary Group

ARussian businessman with close ties to sanctioned oligarch Roman Abramovich was one of the founding partners of a UK All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG), Byline Times can reveal.

Until April 2022, Sergey Bratukhin served as a director of Norilsk Nickel, appointed to the board to reportedly represent Abramovich’s Millhouse Capital. He was until recently also the president of Invest AG, a Moscow-based investment company which controls the assets of Alexander Abramov and Alexander Frolov, who ran Russia’s largest steel producer, Evraz, and have this month been sanctioned by the UK Government. The pair are “known to be business associates of Roman Abramovich,” according to the UK Government.

Bratukhin has also sat on the board of Rusaich both Invest AG and Abramovich are significant shareholders. He is listed here as also being a board member of the Amur Shipping Company, which transports the forest products of parent company RFP Group. It also appears that Bratukhin is a shareholder via an investment firm in Renaissance Insurance, holding a financial stake alongside Abramovich’s Millhouse Capital, and Invest AG.

Norilsk Nickel has recently announced that it is looking to develop new Lithium mining sites that will aid the Russian war effort in Ukraine, while Bratukhin personally welcomed President Vladimir Putin on a tour of RFP facilities in Amursk in 2017. It also seems that Bratukhin appeared alongside Putin at the plenary session of the conference of regional branches of the United Russia Party – Putin’s party – in the Far Eastern Federal District in 2010.

In the West, Bratukhin calls himself Sergey Young, and portrays himself as a successful venture capital investor in bio-technology companies. He speaks at conferences around the world discussing longevity, the science of extending human lifespans through the appliance of new technology to improve diagnoses, drug efficacy and treatments.

He explained in an interview in 2021 that he “created this whole Sergey Young guy” to overcome “anti-Russian prejudices”. He added that “you need to be mentally healthy to support a couple of personas”. As shown here, the name ‘Sergey Young’ is in fact a trademark belonging to Sergey Bratukhin. Young’s LinkedIn page lists that he attended Warwick Business School, matching his profile in Norilsk Nickel annual accounts.

In the US, Bratukhin has been described as the “right hand man” of Peter Diamandis, one of the founders of the X-Prize Foundation, the world-renowned scheme that runs competitions intended to encourage technological development to benefit humanity. Bratukhin also founded Peak State Ventures, a San Francisco-based investment firm, and heads a bio-technology investment outfit called the Longevity Vision Fund.

In the UK, Bratukhin is listed as one of the sponsors/partners of the APPG for Longevity and was one of the individuals who “advised the [APPG] on all matters related to the Health of the Nation Strategy published in February 2020”. His Longevity Vision Fund is also listed on the APPG website as a “key supporter”. Bratukhin’s personal website says that he is a “Financial Advisory Board member of the UK’s All Party Parliamentary Group for Longevity, which is helping to shape a national life extension strategy.”

The APPG is chaired by former senior Cabinet minister, Conservative MP Damian Green. Other members of the APPG include former Head of the Home Civil Service Lord Bob Kerslake, Sir Peter Bottomley MP, Paul Holmes MP, Jonathan Lord MP, and five other members of the House of Lords.

APPGs are informal cross-party groups, focused on particular areas of interest, “run by and for Members of the Commons and Lords”.

In a video on the APPG’s website, posted in November 2019, Bratukhin is quoted as saying that “for me, the most important thing is just the existence of the APPG. And I’m always using the UK and our group as an example where [a] government and parliament is trying to take a much bigger role in extending not only lifespan but also the health-span of its citizens.”

The APPG told Byline Times that, “Sergey Young was briefly involved in the APPG in 2019 as a finance expert in longevity on one of the many meetings we ran that year involving well over 100 individuals. Since 2020 he has had no involvement whatsoever in the APPG.”

It appears that the APPG is understating the initial role of Bratukhin, given that he was previously listed as one of the “first two” partners of the group. A video listed on the APPG’s website shows Bratukhin attending the launch of its ‘Health of the Nation’ report in February 2020.

MPs press the Church of England to rid itself of priests who oppose the ordination of women - Anglican Ink © 2023

House of Commons

Thursday 20 July 2023

The House met at half-past Nine o’clock

The hon. Member for South West Bedfordshire, representing the Church Commissioners, was asked:

Dame Diana Johnson MP (Lab, Kingston upon Hull North): If the Church of England will make an assessment of the potential merits of refusing to ordain clergy who do not personally recognise the ordination of women as diocesan bishops.

Andrew Selous: The Church of England is fully committed to all orders of ministry being open equally to all without reference to gender. The Church is also committed to ensuring that those who cannot in good conscience receive the ministry of women priests or bishops are able to flourish; the five guiding principles of the House of Bishops are the basis for this mutual flourishing and all candidates for ordination have to assent to them.

Dame Diana Johnson: It is now 29 years since we had the first woman priest and nine years since the first female bishop was appointed in our established Church of England. It therefore seems to me that there have been many years to adapt to treating women as equals in the sight of God. Given that, is it really appropriate for the Church of England to continue appointing clergy, as happened recently in Blackburn, who have not accepted and who will never personally accept the ordination of women?

Andrew Selous: I can tell the right hon. Lady that a new body was established last year to review how the five guiding principles are being understood, implemented and received in the Church and that it has a balanced membership of bishops, clergy and laity who reflect all views on these matters.

Sir Peter Bottomley MP (Con, Worthing West): I speak as a supporter of WATCH, the Women and the Church group. The Church Commissioners should understand that either the Church of England gets rid of what ought to have been temporary exemptions from the Equality Act 2010 or Parliament will do that for it. Does my hon. Friend understand that other MPs who are interested in full equality for women would like to meet the Church Commissioners before we consider what other action we might take?

Andrew Selous: I have very clearly heard what my hon. Friend the Father of the House and indeed the very respected Chair of the Home Affairs Committee, the right hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull North (Dame Diana Johnson) have just said. The Church will have heard that as well and we are of course available for meetings at any time.

Stephen Lawrence: Anger at police failings after BBC names sixth suspect

Tory MP Sir Peter Bottomley, who represented Eltham at the time of the murder, told Radio 4’s the World At One the BBC investigation showed the crime “would have been solved within hours” if the police had given proper attention to the eyewitness evidence from Duwayne Brooks, Stephen’s friend who was with him at the time of the attack.

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Trying to access, provide or facilitate abortion services

The response was from Chris Philp who is the Conservative Minister for the Home Department and he initially states “It is completely unacceptable that anyone should feel harassed or intimidated when trying to access, provide or facilitate abortion services.” The response came from a written question raised by Peter Bottomley who is the MP for Worthing West. The question and the full response…

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Infected Blood Inquiry debate: No new information from Government

A debate was held in the Commons Chamber this afternoon about the Infected Blood Inquiry and the progress made by the UK Government on the matter of compensation.  Dame Diana Johnson MP and Sir Peter Bottomley MP, co-Chairs of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Haemophilia and Contaminated Blood, opened the proceedings by highlighting the lack of progress made by the Government and called on…

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MPs pledge allegiance to King Charles III in rare Saturday Commons sitting

MPs pledge allegiance to King Charles III in rare Saturday Commons sitting

Senior MPs have pledged their allegiance to King Charles III in a rare Saturday Commons sitting. Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle was the first to do so. He was followed by Father of the House, the longest serving male MP, Conservative Sir Peter Bottomley. Then came the Mother of the House, the longest serving female MP, Labour’s Harriet Harman. Cabinet ministers to meet with new King – live…

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