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Rishi Sunak Announces Increase In Defence Spending To 2.5% Of GDP By 2030

23 Apr Defence

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has announced an increase in defence spending to 2.5 per cent of GDP by 2030, which he called the "biggest strengthening of our national defence for a generation".

19 Apr Foreign affairs

Prime Minister Says Middle East Conflict Escalation Benefits No One After Israel Strike On Iran

18 Apr Defence

UK Grapples With Uncharted Territory As "Red Lines" Crossed In Middle East

17 Apr Foreign affairs

MPs Clash With Foreign Office Over Calls To Proscribe IRGC

16 Apr Defence

Calls To Increase Defence Spending Could Clash With Labour's Tight Fiscal Rules

15 Apr Defence

UK Working With Allies To "Prevent Further Bloodshed" In Middle East

11 Apr Foreign affairs

Minister Says UK Needs “Deep Pockets” For Ukraine Support To Continue

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22 Apr Foreign affairs

After a year of war in Sudan, there are still no safe and legal routes to the UK

22 Apr Foreign affairs

Britain cannot stay silent on atrocities in DRC to protect our Rwanda deal

15 Apr Foreign affairs

Britain cannot turn a blind eye if Israel is committing war crimes

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Labour Says Its Plan To Nationalise The Railways Will Save Over £2bn A Year In Waste

24 Apr Transport

North West Could Become A "Sea Of Red" At General Election

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19 Mar Foreign affairs

Solidarity with Ukrainian miners on the frontline of democracy in Europe

Two years ago, I was in Kyiv with politicians and trade union leaders.

14 Mar Foreign affairs

Tanks on the lawn: Labour's plans for the Ministry of Defence

What are Labour’s plans for the Ministry of Defence? Sienna Rodgers reviews the problems that may await John Healey as defence secretary

12 Mar Defence

Call of duty: The row over a 'citizens army'

Patrick Sanders infuriated Rishi Sunak by calling for a ‘citizen army’ in a speech dismissed as ‘alarmist’. But, as Sophie Church and Tali Fraser report, the debate on how to expand troop numbers has started and looks set to intensify after the election. Illustrations by Tracy Worrall

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12 Aug 2015 Foreign affairs

UK must speak up against sharp rise of executions in Iran

Co-chair of the British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom Lord Carlile of Berriew calls on the Government to condemn the human rights situation in Iran with nearly 700 executions since January 2015.

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12 Aug 2015 Foreign affairs

‘The Swarm’ from Calais: a horror movie not showing near you

Kent roads in gridlock. Families missing their big summer holiday. Therewaseven talk of sending in the army to defend our borders from invading migrants. So how did we get here and whats going on?

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03 Aug 2015 Foreign affairs

Save the Children welcomes draft global goals as 'seismic shift' for combatting poverty

Save the Children has today strongly welcomed the agreement by member states of Transforming our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

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24 Jul 2015 Foreign affairs

Road Haulage Association calls for French military to secure Calais

The Road Haulage Association welcomes proposals to improve Operation Stack, which were set out at a resilience meeting in Kent today. But the plans will not cope adequately when the demands on Stack reach their peak, as has been repeatedly seen in the past month, the RHA warned.

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24 Jul 2015 Foreign affairs

Using digital systems to improve food security. Alan Whitelaw

If digital infrastructure is about delivering better outcomes, then nowhere is this more important than in support of agriculture and the food industry.

22 Jul 2015 Foreign affairs

Guide to the Ministry of Defence published

The House Magazine in association with Airbus Helicopters, BAE Systems, CAE, Northrop Grumman & SAAB has published a Guide to the Ministry of Defence.

Parliament stinks: a call to improve sanitation worldwide

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22 Jul 2015 Health

Parliament stinks: a call to improve sanitation worldwide

WaterAid recreates Victorian London in front of Parliament, urging MPs to increase investment in water and sanitation - 'the foundation to climbing out of poverty'.

Legal Aid reform is keeping families apart, new report warns

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20 Jul 2015 Foreign affairs

Legal Aid reform is keeping families apart, new report warns

Parliamentarians last week came together to discuss a new report by the British Red Cross which highlights the difficulties being faced be refugees we have been separated from their families

Ending poverty in a generation 'requires decisive action'

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20 Jul 2015 Foreign affairs

Ending poverty in a generation 'requires decisive action'

With campaigns like action/2015 gaining support from the likes of One Direction and Hillary Clinton, Save the Children’s Brendan Cox says the message ‘to world leaders is clear’: you have the power to end extreme poverty and we are all behind you.

The struggle for gender equality in Kenyan politics

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16 Jul 2015 Foreign affairs

The struggle for gender equality in Kenyan politics

Lord Steel, Baroness Armstrong, Pauline Latham MP and Gavin Shuker MP describe the challenges being faced in Kenya to secure a representative parliament

Woodland Trust’s Centenary Woods project captures parliament’s imagination

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16 Jul 2015 Foreign affairs

Woodland Trust’s Centenary Woods project captures parliament’s imagination

MPs, Peers and funders gathered this week in support of the Woodland Trust’s latest campaign.

16 Jul 2015 Foreign affairs

We must improve our application of the Responsibility to Protect

Labour peer, Lord McConnell examines the UK's application of the Responsibility to Protect,noting that while interventions have saved lives, those interventions have seen mixed outcomes in the years that follow.

Learning from Victorian London to solve the global sanitation crisis

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14 Jul 2015 Health

Learning from Victorian London to solve the global sanitation crisis

Sir William Cash MP, Chairman of the APPG on Sanitation and Water in the Third World, writes on the important history of the UK’s sewerage system and what it can teach us about creating a healthy, prosperous world.

02 Jul 2015 Foreign affairs

Mark Williams MP: Education for the most vulnerable children will boost Sustainable Development Goals

Welsh Lib Dem MP and Co-Chair of the All Party Group on Global Education Mark Williams writes about his Westminster Hall debate today on 'Education and the sustainable development goals'.

30 Jun 2015 Foreign affairs

Weak nuclear agreement harms the cause of human rights in Iran

Crossbench Peer Lord Alton questions the US acceptance of an Iranian nuclear agreement and argues that this will 'set back the cause of human rights' in that country.

26 Jun 2015 Economy

Helping veterans move into meaningful employment

Ahead of Armed Forces Day, Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith says the UK is indebted to its veterans and commits to making the 'best use of their skills after they leave the forces.'

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25 Jun 2015 Foreign affairs

Age discrimination risks being written into UN Sustainable Development Goals

As governments meet in New York this week to discuss the Sustainable Development Goals (successor to the Millennium Development Goals), Age International, Age UK and other ageing experts warn that unless there is a change in language, age discrimination will unwittingly be written into the global targets for the next 15 years.