A long first day back at Westminster, the most dramatic event of which was the announcement by Gordon Brown of his intended resignation as Labour leader. I wish I could find some suitable words of praise for him, or of regret at his departure, but I can’t. Let’s leave it at that.
This evening, there was a meeting of the Parliamentary Conservative party in committee room 14, the biggest in the House. It was so full that it could scarcely accommodate all the Members who turned up. We are now a very big party indeed.
After the meeting, some of us adjourned to the smoking room (where smoking isn’t allowed, by the way). That, too, was full of Tories. It was particularly satisfying to sit at an all-Welsh Conservative table.
This Parliament is going to be very different from the last. The negotiations continuing among the three principal parties will determine its shape, if not necessarily its duration.
The Welsh Assembly’s presiding officer, Lord Elis-Thomas, who has done such sterling work in the cause of furthering good relations between Westminster and Cardiff, is apparently to make a 
In her appearance on this morning’s Andrew Marr Show, Harriet Harman said:
