Tories only want what they can't have on regional government

Talk about having your cake and eating it.

For the past 18 months, Conservatives have complained that the Government was too slow in appointing regional select committees - new House of Commons committees designed to give the regions a bigger voice at Westminster.

Tomorrow, the Government will finally appoint the members who will sit on the committee. But there won't be any Tory members, or Lib Dem for that matter. Both opposition parties have now decided they don't want regional committees after all, and are boycotting them.