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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
Communities
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
Home affairs
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
Rachel Reeves: Hero of the Left
Rachel Reeves: Hero of the Left
By Tim Leunig
Political parties
One Year After The General Election: Where Are Former MPs Now?
One Year After The General Election: Where Are Former MPs Now?
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
Welfare Bill Passes House Of Commons Vote After Day Of Pain For Government
Welfare Bill Passes House Of Commons Vote After Day Of Pain For Government
Health
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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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Coronavirus
By Equality and Human Rights Commission
Equality body calls on retailers to do more for disabled customers during corona crisis
The retail sector is being told to take swift action to ensure that disabled people are not left unable to shop for food and essentials during the coronavirus crisis.
Survey shows 70% of tower block residents say their buildings still have combustible cladding on
Coronavirus
Survey shows 70% of tower block residents say their buildings still have combustible cladding on
A new survey into those living in tower blocks reveals 70% of them still have on combustible cladding almost three years on from the Grenfell Tower disaster.
Rory Stewart quits race to become Mayor of London after coronavirus made campaigning ‘impossible’
Coronavirus
Rory Stewart quits race to become Mayor of London after coronavirus made campaigning ‘impossible’
Former Tory minister Rory Stewart has pulled out of the London mayoral race, citing the “considerable challenges” of running his campaign for another year during the coronavirus pandemic.
Just 300 passengers who arrived in UK from coronavirus hotspots quarantined out of 18 million, new figures show
Coronavirus
Just 300 passengers who arrived in UK from coronavirus hotspots quarantined out of 18 million, new figures show
Fewer than 300 of the 18 million who arrived in the UK from coronavirus hotspots in the three months before lockdown began were put into quarantine, new figures show.
Coronavirus
By Bar Council
Bar Council steps up to help 'essential worker' self-employed barristers get tested for Covid-19
The Bar Council, the representative body for all barristers in England and Wales, will help self-employed barristers showing Covid-19 symptoms to get tested under the Department of Health & Social Care employer referral testing scheme.
Why collaboration holds the key to coordinated border management Partner content
Coronavirus
By Leidos
Why collaboration holds the key to coordinated border management
The way in which we manage our borders has come under the spotlight in the last few years. This is largely a consequence of Brexit, though the challenge we face from Covid-19 and its implications on international trade and travel have sharpened the focus even more.
Coronavirus: Communities Secretary vows priority council housing for people fleeing domestic abuse
Coronavirus
Coronavirus: Communities Secretary vows priority council housing for people fleeing domestic abuse
People fleeing domestic abuse will be given priority for council housing amid fears of a surge in cases during the coronavirus lockdown, the Communities Secretary has announced.
Home affairs
By Police Federation of England and Wales
Funding reassurance needed on 20,000 recruitment drive
National Chair John Apter responds to first set of figures showing uplift programme progress.
Home affairs
By Equality and Human Rights Commission
Equality body warns of future-limiting effects new grading system could have on pupils across England
Using predicted grades in place of this year’s summer assessments could deepen the existing inequality in education and put the future of disadvantaged young people at risk if not correctly implemented, David Isaac, Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission has warned.
Coronavirus is a perfect storm in our overcrowded prisons
Coronavirus
By Lord German
Coronavirus is a perfect storm in our overcrowded prisons
Our prisons are incubators, pumping the virus and spreading it to the community both within and outside their walls. The government must accelerate the release scheme, only then will prisons have the space to isolate and undertake social distancing.
Visa extensions for NHS staff during coronavirus expanded to cover midwives and social workers too
Coronavirus
Visa extensions for NHS staff during coronavirus expanded to cover midwives and social workers too
Free visa extensions for NHS staff on the coronavirus frontline are being extended to cover more healthcare workers, Priti Patel has confirmed.
Coronavirus
By Police Federation of England and Wales
Police Federation of England and Wales’ Annual Conference and Police Bravery Awards
The Federation is announcing today that we are cancelling our Annual Conference and postponing the Police Bravery Awards ceremony due to the ongoing restrictions around Covid-19.
Labour demands publication of Priti Patel bullying report ‘as soon as possible’
Home affairs
Labour demands publication of Priti Patel bullying report ‘as soon as possible’
Labour is demanding that the findings of a Whitehall probe into whether Priti Patel broke the ministerial code be made public “as soon as possible”, amid reports the Home Secretary has been cleared.
Home affairs
By Law Commission
Law Commission recommends increased powers for employment tribunals
Recommendations to improve how employment law disputes are decided have been published today [29 April 2020] by the Law Commission.
Courts facing record backlogs over coronavirus outbreak, think tank warns
Coronavirus
Courts facing record backlogs over coronavirus outbreak, think tank warns
Prisons and courts are facing record overcrowding and backlogs as a result of the coronavirus outbreak, a think tank has said
No one in our society should become homeless because they have had to flee domestic abuse
Coronavirus
By Rosie Duffield MP, Neil Coyle MP and Bob Blackman MP
No one in our society should become homeless because they have had to flee domestic abuse
This lockdown throws into sharp relief why it’s essential that domestic abuse survivors are guaranteed the right to a safe home, write Rosie Duffield, Neil Coyle and Bob Blackman
We need targeted measures in the Domestic Abuse Bill to improve support for survivors through the coronavirus crisis and beyond
Coronavirus
By Christine Jardine MP
We need targeted measures in the Domestic Abuse Bill to improve support for survivors through the coronavirus crisis and beyond
The Covid-19 crisis has added incredible urgency to the issue of tackling domestic abuse. The priority right now must be to ensure anyone who finds themselves at risk of harm can get help.
EXCL Anger as Priti Patel stands by ‘mean and counterproductive’ migrant Universal Credit ban amid coronavirus crisis
Coronavirus
EXCL Anger as Priti Patel stands by ‘mean and counterproductive’ migrant Universal Credit ban amid coronavirus crisis
Priti Patel has batted away calls to suspend “mean and counterproductive” rules that bar some migrants from accessing Universal Credit during the coronavirus crisis.
After lockdown, it is crucial we don't abandon our newfound concern for each other Partner content
Coronavirus
By Equality and Human Rights Commission
After lockdown, it is crucial we don't abandon our newfound concern for each other
The coronavirus response must protect the most vulnerable in society for the long-term.
Delaying justice will leave us with no barristers to pick up the pieces Partner content
Coronavirus
By Bar Council
Delaying justice will leave us with no barristers to pick up the pieces
Law and order must not go off into the long grass, the Bar Council has warned after releasing new findings from the barristers’ profession.
Only 33 prisoners released early under coronavirus scheme as minster admits progress ‘careful and slow’
Coronavirus
Only 33 prisoners released early under coronavirus scheme as minster admits progress ‘careful and slow’
Just 33 prisoners have been released early from prison under a plan to safeguard jails from coronavirus, the Government has confirmed.
If we don’t act now, thousands of children and young people will find themselves undocumented and stateless
Brexit
By Steve McCabe MP
If we don’t act now, thousands of children and young people will find themselves undocumented and stateless
We seem to be sleep walking into another Windrush. Ministers should do the right thing and grant these children and young people automatic settlement status.
Coronavirus
By Bar Council
New research: Delaying justice will leave us with no barristers to pick up the pieces
Law and order must not go off into the long grass, the Bar Council has warned after releasing new findings from the barristers’ profession today.
New appointments this week in UK politics, the civil service and public affairs Partner content
Home affairs
By Dods People
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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Net Zero Week in Parliament 2025
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Net Zero Week in Parliament 2025