Plenty there for MPs - and hacks - to think about as we disappear for the parliamentary recess.
At one stage, they had 14 MPs - in 2010 they celebrated winning eight seats.
Voting lists show that 136 Conservatives - almost half of the party's MPs - opposed the bill.
On Monday, two of Kent's Conservative MPs - Laura Sandys and Damian Collins - said the teenager should step down.
Local MPs - Conservative Iain Duncan Smith and Labour's Stella Creasy - had urged for the plan to be rejected.
He is one of 11 ethnic minority Conservative MPs - which is a leap from 2005 when there were only two.
Not least because many Tory MPs - as individuals - will not grieve too much at the loss of boundary changes.
So it could be now if anti-reform Tory MPs - of which there are many - vote with pro-reform Labour MPs.
More than 20 Labour MPs - led by shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper - have called on the government to reverse planned police cuts.
BBC: England riots: Cameron says police admit to wrong tactics
Three parliamentary by-elections have been set for 15 November after three MPs - two Labour and one Conservative - stood down.
Mr Shapps told the BBC's Sunday Politics, he hoped the changes - to cut the number of MPs - would happen.
BBC: Grant Shapps still hopes MP boundary changes will happen
It has split the Conservative Party three ways but united Welsh Tory MPs - although possibly not in the way intended by the prime minister.
Two other Labour MPs - David Chaytor and Ben Chapman - have also admitted "errors" in claiming for mortgages that had already been paid off.
It is an effort - both collectively as a party and individually as Conservative MPs - to address the public's anger about what has happened.
Women currently account for only 25% of Labour MPs - short of the 35% the party aims to have in place by the next election.
Sir George served as chairman of the Standards and Privileges Committee - a role requiring a non-partisan approach in judging alleged misconduct by MPs - from 2001 to 2009.
Hungary's justice ministry has proposed a motion - not yet passed by MPs - that appears to address some of the concerns raised by the European Commission.
On Saturday Nick Clegg met the party's prospective candidates in Highbridge, along with Somerset's four Lib Dem MPs - David Heath, Tessa Munt, Jeremy Browne and David Laws.
Yet Lib Dem MPs - casting a gloomy eye over the polls - fear the only policy the public associate with them is their broken pledge on tuition fees.
But a group of Tory MPs - including several former cabinet ministers - have circulated a letter warning the prime minister that talk of renegotiation and referendums was putting the single market at risk.
Supporters of capital punishment accept there is little chance of a change in the law, as it is opposed by the European Union and would be backed only by a minority of MPs - mainly Conservative.
BBC: Conservative MP calls for a referendum on death penalty
The backbench debate - put forward by 45 MPs - calls on the treaty to be "urgently renegotiated" to enable the government to refuse extradition requests if UK prosecutors have decided against beginning proceedings at home.
"We are concerned that an over-emphasis in your speech on renegotiation and a referendum rather than leadership could undermine the single market, " the MPs - including former ministers Sir Malcolm Rifkind and Stephen Dorrell - wrote.
In a statement to MPs - sparked by an urgent question from Eurosceptic Conservative backbencher Peter Bone - Mr Hoban said that "at no point have we committed any British taxpayers' money, not to Greece, not to the bail-out fund".
BBC: Eurozone crisis: Right to boost IMF funds, Cameron says
The five MPs - who are all members of the Free Enterprise Group of Tory MPs - say the UK needs to reward a culture of "graft, risk and effort" if it is to compete with fast-growing nations.
Now the PM finds himself caught between rebel Tory MPs - around 100 of them - and the Lib Dems who are making increasingly overt threats of "consequences" (see my last post) if he fails to confront them.
Four Lib Dem MPs - Sarah Teather, David Ward, Julian Huppert and John Leech - voted against the government while Charles Kennedy and Andrew George abstained on the second reading of the legislation needed to implement the three-year cap.
The Secretary of State was also questioned by MPs on the proposals to reduce the number of MPs - and concerns were raised by Labour MPs Owen Smith and Susan Jones that reforms might not take into account existing geographical boundaries.
On Tuesday, 26 coalition MPs - 16 Conservatives and 10 Lib Dems - voted against the government by backing a House of Lords amendment stipulating that individual councils should be given the right to opt out of the temporary planning rules changes.
And the Public Accounts Committee will be pondering a subject close to the hearts of MPs - the effectiveness of their expenses overlord, IPSA based on a National Audit Office report, which wasn't quite the brutal takedown many MPs had hoped for.
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