http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-38837-douglas-carswell/topic-rss.do Douglas Carswell RSS feed http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23767626-tory-mp-challenges-cameron-over-europe-referendum.do <b>NEW:</b> David Cameron faces renewed attacks over his abandonment of a referendum on the EU's Lisbon Treaty after one of his MPs vows to campaign for a public vote 2009-11-11T07:12:22Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23744080-david-cameron-talks-the-local-talk---but-will-he-walk-it.do Tory low-cost easyCouncils could be a dummy run for Whitehall – as long as Mr Cameron sticks to his guns 2009-09-15T07:34:17Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23737675-mandelson-to-list-corfu-hospitality-in-lords-register.do Lord Mandelson faces fresh questions over his Corfu holiday amid claims of conflicts of interest with his ministerial duties 2009-08-27T13:22:48Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23703020-liberal-democrat-baroness-rented-out-her-second-home.do A Liberal Democrat frontbencher billed the taxpayer for a second home in central London and then rented it out to an MP after being made a peer 2009-06-03T08:32:48Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23694417-pm-bars-no-confidence-vote-on-speaker.do Beleaguered Commons Speaker will hold emergency talks over MPs expenses as he fights to save his political career 2009-05-19T06:29:46Z 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-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-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-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-business/article-23691514-inconvenient-truth-about-camerons-green-tories.do It has become David Cameron's inconvenient truth: his party does not agree with him on wind farms 2009-05-14T08:35:19Z 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-23689884-peer-tricks-bbc-presenter-into-92000-confession.do BBC salaries were drawn into the MPs expenses row today after a peer turned the tables on a presenter in an on-screen bust-up 2009-05-12T13:37:08Z 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-23624704-brown-withdraws-bid-to-keep-mps-expenses-secret.do Gordon Brown has been forced into an embarrassing climbdown over attempts to keep details of MPs' expenses secret 2009-01-21T14:52:54Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-business/article-23600805-weve-heard-the-purnell-spiel-on-welfare-before.do A great fanfare for Work and Pensions Secretary James Purnell’s declaration that the unemployed will be required to undertake some work. Er, haven’t we heard all this before? 2008-12-12T09:41:12Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-business/article-23597700-tory-infighting-over-airport-expansion-plans.do A Tory lobby group has been set up called Conservatives for International Travel, or C-FIT to campaign for airport expansion 2008-12-05T11:58:04Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-sport/article-23597484-tory-infighting-over-airport-expansion-plans.do A Tory lobby group has been set up called Conservatives for International Travel, or C-FIT to campaign for airport expansion 2008-12-05T08:35:05Z 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-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-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-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