@afneil Section 4(5)(b) of the House of Lords Reform Act 2014. A life peer can resign membership of the House of Lords and stand for election to the House of Commons.
The important difference between AstraZeneca's relationship with the UK and with the EU, and the reason it has fallen behind schedule on 50m vaccine doses promised to the EU, is that the UK agreed the deal with AZ a full three months before the EU did - which gave...
@afneil The remain campaign were saying it would take many years to negotiate a trade deal. We did it in 11 months. Leave campaign was much closer to being right on this.
No... no, I don’t. But I can’t help feel that by the time you’re appealing to the public for information on this point, you should probably have closed the zoo...
Telling that Ed Miliband should cite Magna Carta as an example of our commitment to the rule of law. Magna Carta was annulled by a papal bull a few weeks later. But it remained, and remains still, because we gave primacy to our domestic constitutional order.
@DouglasCarswell These decisions are made by the partners, not the government. They are limiting face-to-face appointments to avoid unnecessarily risking exposing patients to COVID. GPs have put their own health at risk seeing patients, including COVID patients, throughout the pandemic.
@afneil The relief is automatically applied at 20%, but a higher rate tax payer can claim the other 20% on self-assessment or by writing to HMRC - https://t.co/wIRqVOD1jw
"With small tweaks to legislation, we can call upon an enormous volunteer army who can help prevent a second outbreak: introverts," writes @rorysutherland
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