Last night Labour MPs finished voting for the membership of departmental select committees. Here are the results:

• Treasury: Lola McEvoy, Rachel Blake, Siobhain McDonagh, Jeevun Sandher, Yuan Yang, and Lucy Rigby.
• Business and Trade: Sarah Edwards, Antonia Bance, Matt Western, Gregor Poynton, Rosie Wrighting, and Sonia Kumar.
• Culture, Media and Sport: James Frith, Rupa Huq, Natasha Irons, Jo Platt, Tom Rutland, Paul Waugh, Bayo Alaba. Waugh will have some views on the press…
• Education: Sureena Brackenridge, Jess Asato, Amanda Martin, Darren Paffey, Marie Tidball, and Mark Sewards.
• Foreign Affairs: Blair McDougall, Dan Carden, Matthew Patrick, Claire Hazelgrove, Uma Kumaran, and Abtisam Mohamed.
• Health and Social Care: Danny Beales, Beccy Cooper, Deidre Costigan,Ben Coleman Jen Craft, Josh Fenton-Glynn, and Paulette Hamilton.
• Defence: Derek Twigg, Calvin Bailey, Fred Thomas, Alex Baker, Emma Lewell-Buck, Michelle Scrongham.
• Housing, Communities and Local Government: Mike Amesbury, Joe Powel, Chris Curtis, Maya Ellis, Naushabah Khan, and Sarah Smith.

Membership is allocated proportionally to representation in the Commons. Plenty of seats for aspiring Labour performers to fill…

The Select Committee allocations are finally out after some wrangling, setting the stage for MPs to interrogate ministers, executives, and civil servants. Labour chairs over two thirds of the committees as they reflect the balance of seats in parliament. Here’s a breakdown of party allocations:

• Business and Trade (Lab)
• Culture, Media and Sport (Con)
• Defence (Lab)
• Education (Lab)
• Energy Security and Net Zero (Lab)
• Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (LibDem)
• Foreign Affairs (Lab)
• Health and Social Care (LibDem)
• Home Affairs (Con)
• Housing, Communities and Local Government  (Lab)
• International Development (Lab)
• Justice (Lab)
• Northern Ireland Affairs (Lab)
• Science, Innovation and Technology (Lab)
• Scottish Affairs (Lab)
• Transport (Lab)
• Treasury (Lab)
• Welsh Affairs (Lab)
• Women and Equalities (Lab)
• Work and Pensions (Lab)
• Environmental Audit (Lab)
• Petitions (LibDem)
• Procedure (Lab)
• Public Accounts (Con)
• Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs (Con)
• Standards (Con)

The Liberal Democrats have unsurprisingly chosen to chair their core areas of Social Care and Environment, while the Tories have gone with Digital, Culture and Media. With Starmer snubbing many former shadow ministers, watch as those Labour MPs scramble for Chair roles as their new career lifeline…

Rishi’s reshuffle of ‘all the talents’ has caused turmoil in the world of Commons select committees, after a whopping four chairmen were promoted to ministers. Guido’s been digging around and has put together a list of who we know is already putting themself forward for which job. While only Tories can stand for the four committees, all MPs get to vote, meaning more rebellious anti-government Tories are more likely to win…

Treasury:

• Matt Hancock
• Kit Malthouse
• Andrea Leadsom
• John Baron
• Harriett Baldwin – WINNER
• Richard Fuller

Transport:

• Jack Brereton
• Jackie Doyle-Price
• Katherine Fletcher
• Karl McCartney
• Chris Loder
• Iain Stewart

Education:

• Jonathan Gullis
• Brendan Clarke-Smith
• Caroline Ansell
• David Simmonds
• Robin Walker

Health:

• Dr Caroline Johnson
• Stephen Hammond
• Steve Brine – WINNER
• Anne-Marie Morris
• James Morris

Have we missed your name off? Get in touch…

Failing Grayling has lost his bid to become Chair of the prestigious Intelligence and Security Committee after a successful Labour-backed coup by MP Julian Lewis. Only Grayling could lose a rigged election…

A statement just released by the Cabinet office confirms Dr Julian Lewis’s election as Chair:

The Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament (ISC) today elected Rt Hon Dr Julian Lewis MP as its Chairman.

You’ve got to give it to Grayling, at least he’s consistent…

Labour’s new wannabe-Pidcock, Zarah Sultana, made a very public showing yesterday of her career cluelessness, after declaring she refused to vote for any Tories in yesterday’s select committee chair elections.

Committee chairmanships are divided up by party. In not voting for any Conservative MPs, Sultana excluded herself from electing the chairs of key committees including Health, Foreign Affairs, or Women and Equalities. Unlike her NUS days, Zarah should probably wake up to the fact that she was elected to represent her constituents’ interests – not just virtue signal…

Taking even one moment to think about it Zarah would have realised that committee chairmanships are divided by party for a reason. If they were a free for all, the Tories (with their stonking majority) would win every single one. Her ignorance even drove current and former Labour politicians to point out her stupidity…

This kind of clueless Corbynite abstaining may have made a difference in tight votes like DCMS Chair; where BBC bashing Julian Knight thankfully pipped Cadwalladr fan Damian Collins to the post by just seven votes. Grape job, Sultana.

Read the results in full below: 

Defence – Tobias Ellwood

DCMS – Julian Knight

Environmental Audit – Philip Dunn

Foreign Affairs – Tom Tugendhat

Health – Jeremy Hunt

International Development – Sarah Champion

International Trade – Angus MacNeil

Justice – Bob Neill

Northern Ireland – Simon Hoare

Petitions – Cat Mckinnell

Procedure – Karen Bradley

Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Select Committee – William Wragg

Science and Tech – Greg Clark

Transport – Huw Merriman

Work and Pensions – Stephen Timms

You can also read the outcomes of the 13 unopposed committee chair appointments, announced on Monday, here.