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Labour MPs Demand Colleagues Lose Whip Over Palestine Action Vote

03 Jul Foreign affairs

Labour MPs have urged the government to remove the party whip from nine MPs who voted against proscribing Palestine Action.

03 Jul Home affairs

MPs Asked For Views On Islamophobia Definition

28 Jun Communities

Labour APCC Chair Warns Spending Review "Isn't Going To Go Far Enough" For Policing

26 Jun Home affairs

The 3am Call: Preparing For The Worst

23 Jun Foreign affairs

Home Office Proscribes Palestine Action Under Terrorism Law

22 Jun Communities

Immigration Policies Could Produce Another Windrush Generation, Labour MP Warns

20 Jun Economy

Reeves Urged To Open Door To US Business Talent Fleeing Trump

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01 Jul Home affairs

FIRS will protect the UK against foreign manipulation

Women’s Aid urges reform as 19 more children killed due to statutory and legislative failures

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01 Jul Home affairs

Women’s Aid urges reform as 19 more children killed due to statutory and legislative failures

13 Jun Home affairs

Where was commitment to the Met in the Spending Review?

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Labour MPs Demand Colleagues Lose Whip Over Palestine Action Vote

03 Jul Foreign affairs

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Net Zero Week in Parliament 2025

07 Jul Energy

One Year After The General Election: Where Are Former MPs Now?

06 Jul Political parties

Rachel Reeves: Hero of the Left

02 Jul Political parties

House of Lords To Move To QEII Centre While Parliament Restored

03 Jul Parliament

Welfare Bill Passes House Of Commons Vote After Day Of Pain For Government

01 Jul Health

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02 Mar Home affairs

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

29 Jan Home affairs

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

28 Jan Communities

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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30 Mar 2021 Home affairs

Protections for migrant women must be included in the Domestic Abuse Bill

Ministers must back the Lords amendments to the Domestic Abuse Bill to ensure migrant women have access to the legal, financial and emotional support they need to escape abuse and rebuild their lives.

29 Mar 2021 Home affairs

Hartlepool's Tory Candidate Divides Opinion Among Right-Wing Voters

The Conservative party's choice of candidate for the Hartlepool by-election has left local right-wing voters reeling, as they worry selecting a North Yorkshire farmer has given Labour the edge.

29 Mar 2021 Coronavirus

Labour Calls For Urgent Action To Tackle "Horrendous" Delays To Court Cases

Shadow Justice Secretary David Lammy has urged ministers to introduce temporary courts and cut the size of juries in order to tackle a growing backlog of unheard court cases.

29 Mar 2021 Home affairs

The UK’s “broken” asylum system is the Home Office’s own doing – Priti Patel’s cruel reforms punish the wrong people

The newly announced asylum “overhaul” does this country and our proud humanitarian tradition a disservice

29 Mar 2021 Home affairs

We cannot allow victims of crime to become victims of our justice system

It takes strength to stand up to the preparators of crime and I worry that victims will be reluctant to do so for fear of the time it will take to receive justice.

To tackle violence against women, we must address its root causes

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29 Mar 2021 Home affairs

To tackle violence against women, we must address its root causes

All forms of violence against women and girls are rooted in attitudes and stereotypes about their roles in society. We must look at how our society treats women on the whole, rather than in isolation.

26 Mar 2021 Brexit

Britain will lose significant access to EU security data due to Brexit deal

The greatest impact on our security comes from losing access to the Schengen information System, for swapping alerts on the movement of criminals and missing persons.

26 Mar 2021 Home affairs

Dame Vera Lynn should have a permanent memorial

Dame Vera Lynn's voice brought warmth and hope into the homes of ordinary people whose lives had been thrown into chaos by war. Together with Dame Vera’s family, I am launching a campaign for a permanent memorial for her.

25 Mar 2021 Coronavirus

Local Election Officers Will Be Insured Against Covid Death Claims

Local election officials will be protected by the government when they run the 6 May local election in case anyone dies from Covid on their watch.

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25 Mar 2021 Home affairs

Bar Council urges action over largest Crown Court backlog for six years

The Bar Council has responded to the latest criminal court statistics which suggest the highest level of outstanding cases at the Crown Court since 2014.

25 Mar 2021 Coronavirus

Nobody is protected from coronavirus until everyone is: why we should repeal and replace the Coronavirus Act

This week marks one year since the UK first went into lockdown and MPs voted to give the Government unprecedented and extraordinary powers under the Coronavirus Act. My thoughts and prayers are with the loved ones of the 127,000 people who have lost their lives since then.

24 Mar 2021 Communities

Priti Patel Accused of "Empowering" People Smugglers With Latest Immigration Proposals

The government's latest immigration plans will create a "more chaotic, dangerous and fragmented" asylum system, leading charities have warned.

24 Mar 2021 Home affairs

Sarah Everard Vigil Organiser Says Government Dealt Police A “Difficult Hand” With “Unclear” Protest Rules

The government is “at fault” over violent scenes at a Sarah Everard vigil event earlier this month as they didn’t provide police with “proper guidance to work from” on coronavirus restrictions, an organiser has claimed.

24 Mar 2021 Health

Tech companies must clean up the digital Dodge City by tackling anonymous internet trolls

The tragic death of Sarah Everard has rightly put safety in our towns and cities front and centre of a big societal debate and we want action to be taken. But people face danger and harassment, not only in the physical world, but on the dark cyber streets and alleyways of the internet, and particularly from anonymous accounts on social media.

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24 Mar 2021 Home affairs

Law Commission consultation on 14th Programme of Law Reform now open

The Law Commission has today launched a consultation for our 14th Programme of law reform. The responses we receive from the public will shape a great deal of the of the work of the Commission for the next few years. We are asking for your help to identify areas of the substantive law of England and Wales that need reform, and to prioritise those reforms.

24 Mar 2021 Home affairs

Priti Patel Insists New Asylum Seeker Plans Do Not Break International Law

Priti Patel has defended new immigration rules which make harder for people to claim asylum if they arrive in the UK illegally, following criticism from charities working with asylum seekers.

22 Mar 2021 Home affairs

Priti Patel Condemns “Anarchic And Violent” Bristol Protests After Multiple Officers Injured

Priti Patel told MPs she condemned the actions of a “criminal minority” behind violent scenes at protests in Bristol last night which saw vehicles set on fire and several police officers injured.

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19 Mar 2021 Home affairs

Is the current appeal system acting ‘In the Interests of Justice’? – a review of the report of the Westminster Commission on Miscarriages of Justice

Suzanne Gower, PhD researcher at The University of Manchester, and former managing director of the legal charity APPEAL shares her thoughts on the long-awaited report of the Westminster Commission on Miscarriages of Justice, “In the Interests of Justice”.

19 Mar 2021 Home affairs

We need to raise better boys and men to prevent stranger murders of women

The debate must move on from what women and victims could do differently, to how we stop violent men from reoffending time and again.

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19 Mar 2021 Communities

Chancellor brings confidence back to the housing market

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19 Mar 2021 Communities

BSA comments on Scottish Government announcement on cladding

Paul Broadhead, Head of Mortgage and Housing Policy at the BSA said:

19 Mar 2021 Home affairs

Criminalising street harassment and kerb crawling is a much needed first step to keep women and girls safe

Currently it’s not a criminal offence for a man in a vehicle to follow a woman or girl; call out to her, film her, try to get her into the vehicle, pester her. That is terrifying and should be an offence punishable by taking away his driving licence.

19 Mar 2021 Home affairs

Inquiry concludes Nicola Sturgeon 'misled parliament' over Alex Salmond

Nicola Sturgeon has been accused of misleading parliament by a majority of MSPs on Holyrood’s harassment committee.

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18 Mar 2021 Home affairs

Bar Council responds to MoJ plans to reform judicial review

The Bar Council will be looking closely at the Ministry of Justice's plans to reform judicial review.

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