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Labour MPs Demand Colleagues Lose Whip Over Palestine Action Vote
Labour MPs Demand Colleagues Lose Whip Over Palestine Action Vote
Foreign affairs
Labour MPs have urged the government to remove the party whip from nine MPs who voted against proscribing Palestine Action.
MPs Asked For Views On Islamophobia Definition
Home affairs
MPs Asked For Views On Islamophobia Definition
Labour APCC Chair Warns Spending Review 'Isn't Going To Go Far Enough' For Policing
Communities
Labour APCC Chair Warns Spending Review "Isn't Going To Go Far Enough" For Policing
The 3am Call: Preparing For The Worst
Home affairs
The 3am Call: Preparing For The Worst
Home Office Proscribes Palestine Action Under Terrorism Law
Foreign affairs
Home Office Proscribes Palestine Action Under Terrorism Law
Immigration Policies Could Produce Another Windrush Generation, Labour MP Warns
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Immigration Policies Could Produce Another Windrush Generation, Labour MP Warns
Reeves Urged To Open Door To US Business Talent Fleeing Trump
Economy
Reeves Urged To Open Door To US Business Talent Fleeing Trump
Opinion
FIRS will protect the UK against foreign manipulation
Home affairs
By Dan Jarvis MP
FIRS will protect the UK against foreign manipulation
Women’s Aid urges reform as 19 more children killed due to statutory and legislative failures Partner content
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By Women's Aid
Women’s Aid urges reform as 19 more children killed due to statutory and legislative failures
Where was commitment to the Met in the Spending Review?
Home affairs
By Luke Taylor MP
Where was commitment to the Met in the Spending Review?
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Labour MPs Demand Colleagues Lose Whip Over Palestine Action Vote
Labour MPs Demand Colleagues Lose Whip Over Palestine Action Vote
Foreign affairs
Net Zero Week in Parliament 2025 ##sash##
Net Zero Week in Parliament 2025
Energy
One Year After The General Election: Where Are Former MPs Now?
One Year After The General Election: Where Are Former MPs Now?
Political parties
Rachel Reeves: Hero of the Left
Rachel Reeves: Hero of the Left
By Tim Leunig
Political parties
House of Lords To Move To QEII Centre While Parliament Restored
House of Lords To Move To QEII Centre While Parliament Restored
Parliament
Reform MP's Caseworker Suspended Following Assault Charge
Reform MP's Caseworker Suspended Following Assault Charge
Political parties
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Baroness Bertin's porn review: 'This isn't me driving a tank onto the lawn of censorship'
Home affairs
By Sienna Rodgers
Baroness Bertin's porn review: 'This isn't me driving a tank onto the lawn of censorship'
Will the government clamp down on legal but harmful online pornography? Sienna Rodgers talks to Conservative peer Baroness Bertin about her new review, which comes with a warning for ministers
HM chief inspector of prisons: 'If someone were to get a gun into a prison, all bets are off'
Home affairs
By Sienna Rodgers
HM chief inspector of prisons: 'If someone were to get a gun into a prison, all bets are off'
Speaking to Sienna Rodgers, HM chief inspector of prisons Charlie Taylor details the many failures he has seen across the prison estate, including the ‘existential risk’ presented by phones, drugs and weapons entering via drones
Inside the problems plaguing the prison estate
Communities
By Tali Fraser
Inside the problems plaguing the prison estate
Unable to innovate or even buy basic materials, and struggling to keep staff while operating antiquated systems, prison governors are trapped in a failing system, reports Tali Fraser
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Afro hair discrimination should be legally recognised as a form of racism
Home affairs
By Kim Johnson MP
Afro hair discrimination should be legally recognised as a form of racism
This week, Marcial Boo from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) responded to a letter signed by myself and other representatives, campaigners and organisations, calling for action to end afro hair discrimination. Unfortunately, the response from the EHRC was lacklustre.
We urgently need to tighten data protection laws to protect children from facial recognition in schools
Home affairs
By Lord Clement-Jones
We urgently need to tighten data protection laws to protect children from facial recognition in schools
A little over two weeks ago, the news broke that facial recognition software in cashless payment systems – piloted in a Gateshead School last summer – had been adopted in nine Ayrshire schools. It is now clear that this software is becoming widely adopted, both sides of the border, with 27 schools already using it in England and another 35 or so in the pipeline.
EU Braces For A 'Big Crisis' With Fears Boris Johnson Will Suspend Northern Ireland Protocol After COP26
Brexit
EU Braces For A "Big Crisis" With Fears Boris Johnson Will Suspend Northern Ireland Protocol After COP26
European Union figures worry tensions with the UK are about to ramp up a notch, due to a growing expectation in Brussels that Boris Johnson will trigger Article 16 of the Northern Ireland Protocol after the COP26 climate change summit in Glasgow.
It’s time this government started taking seriously the epidemic of Islamophobia in this country
Home affairs
By Afzal Khan MP
It’s time this government started taking seriously the epidemic of Islamophobia in this country
November marks Islamophobia Awareness Month. This yearly occasion is a sobering reminder of just how pervasive and insidious Islamophobia is in our society. It reminds us of the need to tackle this hatred and the violent crimes and discrimination it manifests.
UK Increases Its Aid Spending On Helping Poorer Nations Tackle Climate Change On Eve Of COP26 Summit
Environment
UK Increases Its Aid Spending On Helping Poorer Nations Tackle Climate Change On Eve Of COP26 Summit
The UK is to launch the COP26 climate change talks by pledging another £1 billion in aid to help developing countries tackle the consequences of rising temperatures and flooding.
Everything You Need To Know About The COP26 Climate Summit
Environment
Everything You Need To Know About The COP26 Climate Summit
The COP26 climate summit has been billed as the last chance for global leaders make vital changes to tackle climate change and rising temperatures.

Here's what you need to know before the event kicks off in Glasgow on Sunday.
We need a Speaker's Conference to address issues over MPs’ safety
Home affairs
By Harriet Harman MP
We need a Speaker's Conference to address issues over MPs’ safety
We were all shocked by the dreadful killing of Sir David Amess, especially only five years after the murder of Jo Cox. There have been two different views from MPs on what we should do in the face of Sir David’s death.
All The Key Announcements From Rishi Sunak's 2021 Autumn Budget
Economy
All The Key Announcements From Rishi Sunak's 2021 Autumn Budget
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has delivered his Autumn Budget with major announcements on Universal Credit, Alcohol Duty and Business rates. Here are all the major policies announced in his £150bn spending rise.
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By Bar Council
Bar Council responds to Autumn Budget
Responding to the Chancellor’s Budget and Spending Review today, Derek Sweeting QC, Chair of the Bar Council, said:
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By Mobile UK
Why is 5G research so integral to our future?
Tory MP Clashes With Local Bradford Leaders After Calling For Inquiry Into Child Sexual Exploitation
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Tory MP Clashes With Local Bradford Leaders After Calling For Inquiry Into Child Sexual Exploitation
Conservative MP Robbie Moore will lead a debate in the Commons this evening on child sexual exploitation in the Bradford district, an issue the parliamentarian claims is being “swept under the carpet” by West Yorkshire Combined Authority and Bradford Council.
Conservatives take aim at Human Rights Act - again
Home affairs
By Alexandra Ming, Political Consultant
Conservatives take aim at Human Rights Act - again
The Conservative government has publicly renewed its ambition to make potentially sweeping changes to the Human Rights Act (HRA), ahead of the publication of an independent review in the coming weeks.
The government is failing in its fundamental duty to protect women and girls and uphold the law
Home affairs
By Anna McMorrin MP
The government is failing in its fundamental duty to protect women and girls and uphold the law
“Traumatised, forgotten, abandoned.” These are words spoken by victims of domestic abuse, rape and serious sexual assault who are being let down by the criminal justice system - suffering in isolation, scared and often completely unaware of their rights as victims.
'A man who always had a kind word' - Tory party chairman Oliver Dowden pays tribute to Sir David Amess
Communities
By Oliver Dowden MP
"A man who always had a kind word" - Tory party chairman Oliver Dowden pays tribute to Sir David Amess
They say you can tell a man by his friends. And few parliamentarians can have had more friends than Sir David Amess; a constant warm and colourful presence that charmed parliamentarians, constituents and international dignitaries alike for decades.
The Police Bill will trap people in a cycle of eviction and criminalisation – it must be changed
Home affairs
By Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth, Lord Alton, Baroness Whitaker and Lord Bishop of Manchester
The Police Bill will trap people in a cycle of eviction and criminalisation – it must be changed
The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill working its way through the Lords seeks not to protect or celebrate our age-old way of life, but to openly discriminate against it.
It's time to speak up on assisted dying Partner content
Health
By My Death, My Decision
It's time to speak up on assisted dying
The suffering of people with incurable medical conditions can be as severe as those with terminal illnesses. So why should their end of life choices not be the same?
Minister Warns Soldiers Driving Ambulances Isn't A Long Term Solution To Health Service Backlog
Coronavirus
Minister Warns Soldiers Driving Ambulances Isn't A Long Term Solution To Health Service Backlog
Welsh Secretary Simon Hart has said that soldiers cannot be expected to continue driving ambulances as a long-term solution to intense pressure on the health service in Wales.
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By Mobile UK
Guest Blog: Building 5G momentum two years on from launch
Jeanie York, Chief Technology Officer at Virgin Media O2 outlines the company's 5G milestone, its tests and trials programmes and the positive repercussions this technology will have on society for years to come.
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Health
By Dignity in Dying
Hundreds of terminally ill Brits take their own lives in UK each year, latest estimates suggest
“It was practically impossible not to get on with David” - Paula Sherriff pays tribute to Sir David Amess
Home affairs
By Paula Sherriff, former Labour MP for Dewsbury
“It was practically impossible not to get on with David” - Paula Sherriff pays tribute to Sir David Amess
It would be perfectly fair to describe the friendship that David Amess and I enjoyed, as “unlikely”. On paper, we were poles apart although we shared a Catholic faith - mine somewhat lapsed - and a great love of animals, particularly dogs. 
 
Dominic Raab Supports Removing Online Anonymity To Tackle 'Out Of Control' Abuse Of MPs
Home affairs
Dominic Raab Supports Removing Online Anonymity To Tackle "Out Of Control" Abuse Of MPs
The deputy prime minister has shown support for calls from the Home Secretary to crack down on online abuse in faced by MPs.
Priti Patel Suggests MPs Could Be Given Police Protection At Constituency Meetings Following David Amess Death
Home affairs
Priti Patel Suggests MPs Could Be Given Police Protection At Constituency Meetings Following David Amess Death
Priti Patel has suggested a range of new measures could be brought in to "close any gaps" around MPs' security following the fatal stabbing of Conservative MP Sir David Amess.
Downing Street Denies It Planned To 'Suck It Up' And Ditch Northern Ireland Protocol Later
Brexit
Downing Street Denies It Planned To "Suck It Up" And Ditch Northern Ireland Protocol Later
Dominic Cummings' explosive claim that the UK always planned to ditch the Northern Ireland Protocol reflects government thinking when the Brexit deal was signed, according to a former government official familiar with the matter.
Afghan Woman Who Fled The Taliban Has Accused Government Of Abandoning Those Left Behind
Foreign affairs
Afghan Woman Who Fled The Taliban Has Accused Government Of Abandoning Those Left Behind
A woman airlifted out of Afghanistan with her family said the government has abandoned its responsibility to those left behind and must urgently step up efforts to get more people to the UK.
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