We already have the most comprehensive CCTV coverage in the Western world, add artificial intelligence driven live facial recognition and you have all the makings of a surveillance state, writes Lord Clement-Jones.

Parliament should push for the widest possible involvement of opposition parties and non-governmental organizations as plans move forward on a national data strategy, writes Lord Wallace.

Emergency legislation ending automatic release for anyone convicted of terror-related offences will be introduced by ministers within days.

The system of automatically releasing convicted terrorists part-way through their sentences has “come to the end of its useful life”, Boris Johnson has declared in the wake of a fresh attack in London.

The Bar Council respond to the publication of the annual Bar Standards Board (BSB) Diversity at the Bar report.

Boris Johnson is to unveil “fundamental changes” to the way convicted terrorists are released from jail in the wake of the Streatham knife attack.

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

Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has hit out at Donald Tusk over his supportive comments towards Scottish independence, branding them "un-European" and "irresponsible".

Dominic Cummings has established a "network of spies" to watch special advisers suspected of passing over information to journalists, it has been claimed.

The Justice Secretary Robert Buckland has faced criticism from leading barristers that he misled the Commons Justice Committee over crown court funding cuts.

Dods Monitoring's EU team consider what the EU wants from the Brexit negotiations. 

The Bar Council expresses its grave concern at the latest legislative measure by the Polish parliament, passed on 23 January 2020, which interferes, once more, with the independence of the judiciary, a principle which is internationally recognised.

10 months on from the date the UK was meant to leave the EU, the UK will leave the European Union after almost 50 years of membership tonight at 23:00 GMT. Dods Monitoring's Laura Hutchinson considers the next steps. 

New figures published today (Wednesday 29 January 2020) reveal that one British person travels to Switzerland for an assisted death at least every seven days, up from one every eight days in recent years.

A new law scrapping the automatic right of European boats to fish in British waters is being introduced by the Government.

Surrey PC recognised at PFEW Roads Policing Conference.

Dominic Raab has been forced to defend the Government from its own backbenchers after ministers controversially allowed Chinese firm Huawei to help set up the UK’s 5G network.

Chinese telecoms giant Huawei will be allowed to run "non-core" parts of the UK's 5G network despite a string of concerns from Tory MPs and the United States, it has been confirmed.

Boris Johnson's plans for an Australian-style points-based immigration system will cut economic growth, according to experts.

Boris Johnson will chair a crucial meeting of the National Security Council on Tuesday amid signs he will press ahead with a controversial decision to award Huawei a role in the UK's 5G network.

Writing about his bid to be Justice Select Committee chair, Steve Brine MP says it time for an "energetic gear change" on Committee corridor.

Ministers would be letting the Chinese government "nest a dragon" in the UK's 5G network if they press ahead with a decision to let Huawei help run it, Tory MPs have warned.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has mounted a last-ditch effort to stop Boris Johnson allowing Huawei to help run Britain's 5G network.

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