Over 100 Tory MPs alone were reported to have been planning to vote down Mrs May’s agreement. A catastrophic vote of no confidence in the prime minister and her government in itself, had the final debate gone ahead. But Mrs May has taken a huge risk to delay it too. The fury across the commons, summed up angrily by the speaker,, John Bercow, who labelled the decision “deeply [...]
I apologised to the town council on Monday evening at its full monthly meeting, following a heated discussion at the November meeting over the future of Ottery St Mary Hospital. I felt that the council were not doing all they could to protect the hospital and I left the meeting, slamming the door and inadvertently fracturing the glass. I paid for the damage, and on Monday evening said I was [...]
Despite the very unusual timing of the meeting, there were 25 members of the public present, many of whom took advantage of the `public speaking` arrangements. At the stroke of 2.30, the Mayor locked the front door, to stop any others entering. When someone (who had spent very many years delivering babies in Ottery) was unable to access the meeting, she went to the back of the building to gain [...]