Lord Justice Leveson's proposals are measured, reasonable and proportionate. We on this side unequivocally endorse both the principles set out and his central recommendations.
Ed Miliband speaking in the House of Commons 30/11/2012
Category: Quote of the Day, House of Commons
In the Members' Dining Room, the Conservatives eat at one end, the Labour Party at the other, while the Liberals wait at table.
Gyles Brandreth
Category: Insulting Liberals, House of Commons
At the House of Commons sword-fighting is strictly taboo. Back-stabbing, on the other hand, is quite a different matter.
Gyles Brandreth
Category: House of Commons
To anyone with politics in his blood this place is like a pub to a drunkard.
David Lloyd George
To Robert Boothby.
Category: House of Commons
No one enjoys the House of Commons more than !. I am truly bitten by it. I like the male society. It reminds me of Oxford, or perhaps of the private school to whcih I never went.
Sir Henry Channon 04/05/1946
Category: House of Commons
Most of the day at the House of Commons. Today for the first time I really liked it; boredom passed and a glow of pleasure filtered through me. But I wish I understood what I was voting for.
Sir Henry Channon 1936
Category: House of Commons
A great many persons are able to become Members of this House without losing their insignificance.
Beverly Baxter 1946
Category: House of Commons, Member of Parliament (role of)
Your representative owes you not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Edmund Burke 03/11/1774
Category: House of Commons, Member of Parliament (role of)
When MPs visit you please remember at least to offer to feed them.
Cyril Smith 04/05/1975
Category: House of Commons
You can hardly say boo to a goose in the House of Commons now without cries of "Ungentlemanly," "Not fair" and all the rest.
Harold Macmillan
Category: House of Commons
People don't want to elect a new Speaker under this discredited system, which wouldn't be out of place in eastern Europe before the Wall came down.
Gordon Prentice 2000
Category: House of Commons
Of all the nine Parliaments I have been in, it is the most boring, bland, uncontroversial, sycophantic, tedious, yawn-making assembly ever housed under the roof at Westminster.
Joe Ashton
On the 1997-2001 Parliament
Category: House of Commons
If ever I left the House of Commons it would be because I wanted to spend more time on politics.
Tony Benn 1998
Category: House of Commons
There are 11 bars here, no crèche and no shop. It would be an ideal place for a small Waitrose. It could replace the rifle range.
Barbara Follett 2001
Category: House of Commons
This place is the longest running farce in the West End.
Cyril Smith 07/1973
On the Hosue of Commons
Category: House of Commons
Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help.
Ken Livingstone
Category: House of Commons
Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it; and this I know, my Lords, that where law ends, tyranny begins.
William Pitt 09/01/1770
In the House of Lords attacking the explusion of John Wilkes from the House of Commons
Category: House of Commons
