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Who will take home £150? 🏆

With Labour Conference taking place this weekend, Faces of Parliament - Labour Edition is back, and better than ever!

Put your Labour knowledge to the test: 15 faces, a ticking clock and a £150 prize for the winner.

You can also compete within your own organisation, with a dedicated leaderboard showing who’s best at putting names to faces.

Think you can top it?

https://t.co/LW0NcIs0Cn

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A new session means the return of Monday afternoon e-petition debates.
Thanks to @GideonJAmos and @DrScottArthurMP for being the most enthusiastic advocates of this democratic forum.

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Congratulations to @GideonJAmos and @DrScottArthurMP for winning the ‘Vox Petentium, Vox Dei” award, for contributing to the most e-petition debates in the last session.
#ppawards

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Thanks to @politico for mentioning our awards last week.
Here's one of our favourites @RhonddaBryant and other Ministers for the pithiest responses to Written Questions

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Congratulations @RhonddaBryant for winning the ‘Short Shrift’ award, for pithiest responses to Written Questions. #ppawards #councilelections #localelections

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Thanks to @politico for highlighting our awards last week. See the full list here: @ParallelParl

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Honourable mentions to @LilianGreenwood, @AlexDaviesJones, and @joshmacalister for riding the frontbench late into the night on 4 occasions.

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Congratulation to @simonlightwood for winning the ‘Dinner at your desk’ award, for performing more Monday night Adjournment debates than any other Minister.
#ppawards #councilelections #localelections

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Parliament may enjoy a late start on Monday, but a late starts make for a late finish.
The end of day adjournment debate begins at 10pm on a Monday, a time not renowned for it's popularity of attendance.
But, @simonlightwood manned the darkened despatch box 5 times during the last session. We noticed you were there, even if others might have wondered where you were.

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Special mention to those who provided words that had to be looked up:
@LewisAtkinson with ‘'gimcracks'
@BrianMathewLD with ‘charabanc'
and not forgetting
@MartinRhodes21 for the sole use of the word 'defecated'

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Congratulations again to @jimshannonmp for winning the ‘Countdown Conundrum' award, for contributing the most unique 9 letter words to Hansard in the last session.
#ppawards #councilelections #localelections

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Other notable contributions were
@PeterPrinsley with a great set of:
'occluding', 'syringing', 'olfactory' and 'pyramidal'
@ChrisMcDonaldMP in his element with:
'germanium', 'neodymium' and 'quiescent'
@wesstreeting with a the glorious combination of:
'cockroach', 'brassiere', 'resenting' and 'flouncing'
@dawnbutlerbrent for the unique pairing of:
'celibates' and 'fantasist'

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Honourable mentions to @GrahamStuart and @DSimmonds_RNP for their 16 points of order, ensuring no opportunity to raise an argument went wasted

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Congratulations to @johnmcdonnellMP for winning the ‘Read the Standing Orders!’ award, for raising the most Points of Order of any MP.
#ppawards #councilelections #localelections

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@johnmcdonnellMP (acting as a Privy Councillor) also informed the Commons in November 2025 that King Charles had signified Kings Consent to the Planning and Infrastructure bill.
This was either a hitherto unknown and unexpected readmission to the inner circle of Government or an expression of the meaningless of certain parliamentary procedures…
https://t.co/MUtf8rJW7g

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Honourable mentions to @AnnelieseDodds for stepping up 11 times and @SDoughtyMP for dropping his lunch 9 times.

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Congratulation to @HFalconerMP for winning the ‘Speaker Ruined My Lunch’ award, for answering more Urgent Questions than any other Government Minister.
#ppawards #councilelections #localelections

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One of the great privileges of junior ministerial office: being hauled into Parliament with two hours’ notice to defend someone else’s disaster, on a subject you probably woke up knowing absolutely nothing about.
@HFalconerMP, the 16 times you performed this duty has not gone unnoticed.

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Honourable mentions to @IanByrneMP for his 22 rebellions, @Imran_HussainMP for 21 rebellions, and @BellRibeiroAddy for her 20 rebellions. May the whips continue to dread the sight of you.

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Congratulation to @RichardBurgon for winning ‘The whip has no sting’ award, for defying the whip 25 times, the most rebellious MP in the last session.
#ppawards #councilelections #localelections

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@RichardBurgon come strongly out of the gate, rebelling on the 2-child policy amendment, one of the first votes of the session, earning himself a 7 month withdrawal of the whip.

On being reinstated, he behaved for a month and a half, before rebelling another 24 times, bookending the year nicely with a rebellion on one the final votes of year, voting to refer the Prime Minister to the Privileges Committee.
https://t.co/VC5aWDoLXy