PM’s tight grip, PMO’s ‘boys in short pants’ frustrating some restless Tory backbenchers

There would be more support for MPs’ freedom of speech if Tory MP Warawa wasn’t talking about abortion, says Tory MP.

In an extraordinary move, some Conservative backbenchers last week openly fought back against Prime Minister Stephen Harper's tight grip over their one-minute MPs' statements in the Commons, but a former deputy chief of staff to the PM says restless backbenchers are also frustrated...

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