http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-38836-michael-martin/topic-rss.do Michael Martin RSS feed http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23766384-labour-sends-in-big-guns-for-campaigns-final-few-days.do Two leading Labour cabinet ministers will visit Glasgow to help increase votes as the campaigning in the by-election in the city enters its last days 2009-11-09T07:24:55Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23763606-met-denies-tricking-way-in-to-search-mps-office.do Scotland Yard has vowed to fight claims a senior officer 'tricked' a Commons official into allowing the controversial search of an MP's Parliamentary office 2009-11-03T07:20:28Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23756083-ex-commons-speaker-michael-martin-takes-lords-seat.do Michael Martin took his seat in the Lords following his resignation as Commons Speaker earlier this year 2009-10-13T14:08:04Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23714116-queen-agrees-peerage-for-ousted-martin.do 2009-07-01T08:14:12Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23713851-queen-clears-way-for-michael-martin-peerage-as-mps-applaud-his-eminence.do Queen paves way for a peerage for Michael Martin despite him being the first Commons Speaker to be ousted for more than 300 years 2009-06-30T13:10:27Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23708863-crocodile-tears-as-mps-praise-speaker-they-hounded-out.do It is barely three weeks since the Commons Speaker Michael Martin was politically assassinated, but MPs decided to praise as well as bury him in his last appearance 2009-06-17T13:39:16Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23700613-speaker-was-leant-on-to-fight-expenses-case.do Commons Speaker Michael Martin was leant on by "very senior political sources" to fight efforts to make MPs' expenses more transparent, it was claimed 2009-05-28T06:55:22Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23695310-a-single-scalp-wont-clear-up-this-mess.do Ritual slaughter concluded, an eerie air hangs over the Commons. Everyone, apart from a few loyalists of the shop steward tendency, knows Michael Martin was out of his depth and had to go 2009-05-20T07:59:43Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23695349-speaker-does-not-deserve-to-be-granted-seat-in-lords-say-peers.do Michael Martin should be denied a peerage, two members of the Lords said. Former Tory Chancellor Nigel Lawson led calls for the Speaker not to be elevated to the Upper Chamber 2009-05-20T08:03:54Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23694508-if-the-speaker-will-not-jump-push-him.do The Speaker of the Commons, Michael Martin, had an admittedly difficult job yesterday, to preside over questions from MPs saying that he should go. And, characteristically, he flunked it 2009-05-19T07:59:41Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23694636-profile-former-metal-worker-who-took-a-beating.do “The guy never took any advice when he was in office, and he’s still not taking any advice.” 2009-05-19T10:45:07Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23694786-the-speaker-was-right-to-resign.do The Speaker of the Commons, Michael Martin, has finally fallen victim to the expenses scandal, an impressive scalp for those who have campaigned for MPs to be brought to account for the wilful abuse by many of their allowances and expenses. He said today that he will step down on 21 June, after instigating reform of the system 2009-05-19T15:03:25Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23694624-latest-gone-in-33-seconds---speaker-falls-on-his-sword.do Michael Martin gives up his battle to stay on as Speaker in a statement lasting just 33 seconds 2009-05-19T09:34:47Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23693671-speaker-to-reveal-expenses-reform-plans.do Commons Speaker Michael Martin will set out expenses reform plans to MPs in a bid to quell rapidly-escalating demands for him to quit over his handling of the scandal 2009-05-18T06:12:23Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23693847-campaign-to-oust-speaker-gains-cross-party-support.do 15 MPs back historic motion of no confidence in Commons Speaker Michael Martin 2009-05-18T09:03:08Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23693841-mps-expenses-row-the-speaker-must-go.do While the crisis over MPs’ expenses is claiming an increasing number of parliamentarians, the focus is now shifting to the embattled Speaker, Michael Martin 2009-05-18T08:52:07Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23693945-speaker-lynched-over-expenses-scandal-in-last-ditch-bid-to-save-job.do Michael Martin grovelled for his job this afternoon in the Commons as he came under devastating attack from MPs 2009-05-18T12:51:25Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23692742-senior-mps-pile-pressure-on-speaker-to-fall-on-his-sword.do Speaker Michael Martin has come under unprecedented pressure from senior parliamentarians to quit 2009-05-15T12:48:10Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23691641-opposition-mps-line-up-to-denounce-wounded-speaker.do Top Conservative and Liberal Democrat frontbenchers today joined unprecedented moves to oust Michael Martin 2009-05-14T08:35:14Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23690864-drive-to-unseat-speaker-gathers-pace.do Speaker Michael Martin faced an open revolt against his authority 2009-05-13T12:59:53Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23689391-mps-plot-to-oust-speaker-after-disgraceful-attack.do Commons Speaker Michael Martin faced unprecedented criticism as a plot to unseat him was launched at Westminster 2009-05-12T06:20:37Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23597345-brown-puts-his-full-confidence-in-martin.do Gordon Brown propped up Speaker Michael Martin today by saying he had "full confidence" in him. 2008-12-04T16:32:31Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23597285-harman-and-beckett-refuse-to-back-martin.do Support for Speaker Michael Martin drained away as two senior ministers refused to express confidence in him 2008-12-04T14:48:26Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23597037-harman-ducks-questions-of-confidence-in-martin-over-green-fiasco.do Harriet Harman has undermined Speaker Michael Martin by repeatedly refusing to express confidence in him 2008-12-04T09:41:23Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23596790-tearful-speaker-admits-blunders-over-raid.do Police had no warrant to search the parliamentary office of Tory MP Damian Green, the House of Commons Speaker admitted 2008-12-03T16:29:06Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23596415-apologise-for-police-raid-on-mp-or-youre-toast-speaker-told.do Commons Speaker Michael Martin has been warned "say sorry or you're toast" over his failure to stop police raiding a senior MP's office 2008-12-03T09:29:25Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23596756-martin-has-failed-in-his-duty-and-is-not-fit-to-hold-office-says-top-qc.do Leading QC Geoffrey Robertson has said that the Commons Speaker had to resign because he had failed in his legal duty to defend Parliament 2008-12-03T16:36:45Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23596450-the-speakers-crucial-errors.do The statement by the Speaker of the House of Commons, Michael Martin, about the arrest of the Tory frontbencher, Damian Green last week, was not intended to turn into a full-blown debate 2008-12-03T10:27:50Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23596078-speaker-has-no-authority-and-has-to-go.do A Conservative MP has launched the first move in his bid to oust Commons Speaker Michael Martin who he accused of failing to stop police raiding the parliamentary office of Damian Green 2008-12-02T15:12:21Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23595145-speaker-faces-being-forced-out-after-raid.do Commons Speaker Michael Martin may be pressed to take early retirement at the next election in the wake of the Damian Green affair, the Standard has learned. 2008-12-01T09:45:10Z