Why Shouldn’t MPs Drink on the Job?

In defence of boozy MPs

Hannah Spencer’s anti-alcohol puritanism is far more dangerous to public life than a tipple at the Strangers’ bar.

'Green Party's Hannah Spencer is right... Commons work bar culture stinks'

Hannah, the MP for Gorton and Denton, spoke about ­Westminster’s well-documented drinking culture, saying "I’m really uneasy about…when you can smell the alcohol."

Why shouldn’t MPs drink on the job?

Nearly four centuries after the English Civil War, the country still feels like it readily divides into Cavaliers and Roundheads. That is, liberty and pleasure seekers versus puritans. Few issues reveal the two tribes more swiftly than attitudes towards the Palace of Westminster’s nine bars. Bon vivant Tories such as Thérèse Coffey and Kwasi Kwarteng [...]Read More...

Nigel Farage’s response to MPs drinking between votes backfires

Nigel Farage’s attempt at mocking Green MP Hannah Spencer’s concerns about MPs drinking between votes and smelling of alcohol backfired.  In an interview with PoliticsJoe, Spencer, the new Green MP for Gorton and Denton, said she was “uneasy” about the drinking culture in Parliament. Spencer said: “You can smell the alcohol when people are in between votes”. “There’s a room where I walk past and I doubled back and looked in because people are ju…

Green MP Hannah Spencer hits out at MPs for drinking on the job in Westminster

"You can smell the alcohol when people are in between votes." Green Party MP Hannah Spencer has hit out at MPs for drinking on the job in Westminster

Labour MPs launch barrage of criticism at Green MP who called out on-the-job drinking

A GREEN MP has been criticised after appearing to call out the drinking habits of her Westminster peers.