Bonus track  

This recess is of course a bit different in that Parliament is being recalled on 6th September, for a couple of weeks, and then we’re in recess again for the Conference season. It’s basically just because Cameron made a populist pledge at some point during the election campaign about MPs not having a ten week ‘holiday’, even though he knows perfectly well that most MPs work throughout recess, or at least the September bit of it and much of August too. We have however got several major Bills having their Second Reading during this fortnight. On the first day back it’s the infamous AV Referendum Bill, which also includes the commitment to cut the number of MPs to 600, and fix  rejig constituency boundaries so that Labour don’t win the next election  they’re more equal in size. Although Labour – unlike the Tories and Lib Dems, ironically –...