MEDIA: PARLIAMENTARY COVERAGE - Putting politics back into perspective/After a long drought the activities taking place within Westminster are once again gaining copious column inches within the broadcast and print media

Over the last 20 years, the long term trend in politics has been clear - Parliament, the nerve centre of democracy, has been treated with increasing contempt by political parties and the media alike. Apart from the infrequent backbench rebellions, the workings of the ’Mother of All Parliaments’ have had no regular coverage in the press since the death of the daily reports in the broadsheets towards the middle of the 1980s.