I am not sure why people are stunned that Speaker John Bercow ruled out the return of Mrs May's Draft Withdrawal Agreement for a third time. Even I, no parliamentary historian, knew that according to long-established procedures that should not happen.

There have been a long series of debates and votes on BREXIT in the House of Commons over the last few weeks.

On the evening of Tuesday 12 March the House of Commons voted on whether to accept the Prime Minister's Draft Withdrawal Agreement as amended by some negotiations in Strasbourg the night before. The vote went against Mrs May with 391 Mps voting against the deal and only 242 voting for it.

Next Tuesday, 12 March, I will be asked to vote on whether to accept Mrs May’s Draft Withdrawal Agreement (hopefully amended) or not.  If her plan is rejected then on the following two days there will be a vote first on not accepting a withdrawal on World Trade Organization rules (a so-called ‘No

Today, 4th March, the following letter about the lack of support for soldiers being investigated for their involvement in fatality shootings in Northern Ireland was published in the Daily Telegraph. With other MPs I was a signatory to the letter.

On Friday 28th March I again met a group of constituents (see photograph) who have been very adversely affected by being miss-sold an employment arrangement involving remuneration through ‘loans’.  HMRC have now deemed such arrangements to be unacceptable when previously they were perfectly alrig

Our Constitution implies that there is Collective Cabinet Responsibility and that means loyalty to whatever is decided in Cabinet meetings.  It’s a real sign of the times when three Cabinet ministers publicly threaten to resign if policy is not changed and they are not sacked by the Prime Ministe

People keep asking me what I might do  whenever the next ‘meaningful’ vote takes place which could be the 12th March.  The simple answer is that I do not know because nobody has seen the motions upon which we will be voting or indeed what they will say.  So my reply can only be that I do not know

From January 1981 – January 1983 I had the privilege of commanding some great soldiers in A Company, 1st Battalion the 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment and was based in Northern Ireland.

Bob Stewart (Beckenham) (Con)   On 27 April 1993, I stooped to pick up what I thought was a black rubber ball. I put it in my hand, looked at it and then dropped it in horror. I had picked up the blackened, burnt head of a baby. I was horrified and guilty.