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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

Rachel Reeves: Hero of the Left

02 Jul Political parties

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

06 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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10 Sep 2020 Home affairs

The Home Office Chief Has Clamped Down On Civil Servants' Twitter Use After A Post About "Activist Lawyers"

The Home Office’s permanent secretary has said new measures have been put in place to prevent “political” messages being shared on official accounts, after a tweet that made mention of "activist lawyers".

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09 Sep 2020 Home affairs

National Chair reacts to Government announcement on social gatherings

The National Chair of the Police Federation of England and Wales has issued a response to the Government announcement that social gatherings of more than six people will be banned in England from Monday.

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08 Sep 2020 Home affairs

Bar Council responds to government criminal court recovery plan

Responding to HMCTS’ COVID-19: Update on the HMCTS response for criminal courts in England & Wales September 2020 published today, Chair of the Bar Council, Amanda Pinto QC, said:

07 Sep 2020 Foreign affairs

Britain's moral duty to end people trafficking

Ending illegal Channel crossings will require long-term strategy and global leadership.

07 Sep 2020 Home affairs

The Immigration Bill provides an opportunity to end ‘inhumane’ indefinite detention

Immigration detention should be a last resort, yet the Government detains thousands of people a year for months on end. We have tabled amendments to the Immigration Bill to impose a 28-day time limit.

07 Sep 2020 Home affairs

New appointments this week in UK politics, the civil service and public affairs

Dods People draws together a list of appointments in Westminster politics, the devolved administrations and the public affairs sector in the last week.

06 Sep 2020 Home affairs

Exclusive: The Lib Dems Have Urged The Attorney General To Intervene Over Priti Patel’s "Activist Lawyer" Tweet

The Liberal Democrats have written to cabinet ministers urging them to condemn the home secretary Priti Patel for claiming “activist lawyers” were preventing the removal of migrants in the Channel.

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03 Sep 2020 Home affairs

New guidance calls for retailers to do more to help disabled customers

In response to growing concerns over the accessibility of supermarkets and retailers, Britain’s equality body has published new guidance to help the industry better assist disabled customers during the pandemic.

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03 Sep 2020 Home affairs

Give couples more freedom to choose where they marry, Law Commission proposes

As the experience of couples wanting to get married during the COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated, the laws governing how and where couples can marry are outdated and unnecessarily restrictive.

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02 Sep 2020 Home affairs

Safety review report must not become just ‘another door stop’

Findings must halt rising number of assaults on frontline officers.

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02 Sep 2020 Home affairs

Reforms to UK’s antiquated spying laws published by Law Commission

Reform is needed to bring the law into the 21st century and protect the United Kingdom from espionage (spying) and unauthorised disclosures (leaks), according to a report from the Law Commission that has been laid in Parliament this week.

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01 Sep 2020 Home affairs

Home Secretary Priti Patel gives exclusive interview to POLICE magazine

Priti Patel has emphasised her strong commitment to policing in an exclusive interview with the Police Federation of England and Wales.

31 Aug 2020 Home affairs

New appointments this week in UK politics, the civil service and public affairs

Dods People draws together a list of appointments in Westminster politics, the devolved administrations and the public affairs sector in the last week.

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30 Aug 2020 Coronavirus

EHRC statement on government's campaign to encourage workers back to offices

Caroline Waters, Interim Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, said:

28 Aug 2020 Home affairs

Home Office ditches controversial video claiming ‘activist lawyers’ are protecting asylum seekers after backlash

The Home Office’s top civil servant has ordered the removal of a controversial video dismissing people providing legal representation for asylum seekers as “activist lawyers”.

27 Aug 2020 Home affairs

Home Office under fire for ‘point-scoring’ swipe at ‘activist’ immigration lawyers

The Home Office has been accused of “political point-scoring” over a video claiming that “activist lawyers” are disrupting the return of asylum seekers.

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27 Aug 2020 Home affairs

Military personnel must be held accountable for crimes committed overseas, warns human rights body

The Government should withdraw plans that could make it more difficult to hold UK military personnel to account for crimes, including torture and ill-treatment, committed overseas, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has said.

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27 Aug 2020 Home affairs

PFEW appalled by 31 per cent rise in Emergency Service Worker assaults

National Vice Chair describes year-on-year figures as ‘totally unacceptable’

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26 Aug 2020 Home affairs

Crime reduction figures offer false sense of security

More police officers needed as PFEW warns the drop in recorded crime is temporary

25 Aug 2020 Home affairs

This government is yet again attempting to scapegoat migrants for their own mismanagement

We should have no time for criminals exploiting desperate refugees, but nor should we for a government that refuses to see the bigger picture and take the obvious steps to prevent this exploitation.

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21 Aug 2020 Home affairs

Criminal legal aid support announced today “desperately needed and long overdue” says Bar Council

In response to the MoJ’s announcement this morning of money for the legal aid sector, Chair of the Bar Council, Amanda Pinto QC, said:

21 Aug 2020 Home affairs

A proportional voting system is the first step in fixing our broken democracy

The Tories won just 44% of the vote in 2019, but effectively hold 100% of power in the Commons. That’s not democracy, it's fundamental illegitimacy – and the lack of trust that flows from it – is at the root of our broken system.

21 Aug 2020 Brexit

Britain ‘hands EU draft free trade agreement’ in bid to break Brexit deadlock

British negotiators have sought to break the deadlock over the UK’s post-Brexit relationship with the European Union by submitting a draft free trade agreement, it has been reported.

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20 Aug 2020 Economy

The road to effective truck cargo screening technology

Leidos are looking forward to keeping pace with the evolution of cargo screening as we help safeguard travel and trade across ports and borders.

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