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Recipes for disaster: David Cameron’s almond milk porridge
Recipes for disaster: David Cameron’s almond milk porridge
Political parties
By Robert Hutton
This is a story from early 2014, just before the start of what I think of as the Mad Decade of British politics. It is also one in which I played, to my intense distress, a major part.
Failure on the NHS is not an option
Health
By Praful Nargund
Failure on the NHS is not an option
To upgrade the UK-German relationship, we need ambitious parliamentary links
Foreign affairs
By Dr Ed Turner and Nicolai von Ondarza
To upgrade the UK-German relationship, we need ambitious parliamentary links
The case for better business: why it’s time to modernise company law
Environment
By Martin Wrigley MP
The case for better business: why it’s time to modernise company law
Closing the loop: how circular economy can secure our water future Partner content
Economy
By WSP
Closing the loop: how circular economy can secure our water future
Cash ISAs: A cornerstone of responsible saving, not a barrier to investment Partner content
Economy
By Building Societies Association
Cash ISAs: A cornerstone of responsible saving, not a barrier to investment
We can build more and faster
Economy
By Dan Tomlinson MP
We can build more and faster
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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
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
'Bring Back Karaoke': Staffers On How To Improve The Parliamentary Estate
"Bring Back Karaoke": Staffers On How To Improve The Parliamentary Estate
Parliament
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An EU-UK veterinary agreement can ease pressures on the Northern Ireland Protocol
Brexit
By Stephen Farry MP
An EU-UK veterinary agreement can ease pressures on the Northern Ireland Protocol
The government has options to ease the pressures on and tensions in Northern Ireland without undermining or discarding the Protocol.
The government’s failure to deliver vital PPE to health and care workers left staff afraid for their safety
Coronavirus
By Olivia Blake MP
The government’s failure to deliver vital PPE to health and care workers left staff afraid for their safety
To avoid repeating last year's mistakes DHSC must listen to doctors, nurses and carers, ensuring they have confidence in the systems and processes designed to guarantee their safety.
Government action must go further to prevent remedial cladding costs being passed to leaseholders
Communities
By Royston Smith MP
Government action must go further to prevent remedial cladding costs being passed to leaseholders
It is not fair to ask leaseholders to keep pouring their money into a bottomless pit for being sold unsafe homes. The McPartland-Smith amendments to the Fire Safety Bill will bring an end to this nightmare.
No Recourse to Public Funds has created a two-tier system for young people, denying 175,000 children basic support
Home affairs
By Kate Osamor MP
No Recourse to Public Funds has created a two-tier system for young people, denying 175,000 children basic support
Thousands of children will continue to suffer until the home secretary agrees to suspend NRPF during the Covid crisis – and eventually scrap it altogether
Beyond the Covid catch-up for children, our education system needs a long-term plan
Coronavirus
By Robert Halfon MP
Beyond the Covid catch-up for children, our education system needs a long-term plan
As well as the immediate solutions, long term ambitions like boosting family hubs, re-thinking A-levels, and building further education could help our children recover from the challenges of the pandemic
For Women and Girls in Science Day, we are calling on the Government to ensure the gender gap is closed
Health
By Angela Crawley MP
For Women and Girls in Science Day, we are calling on the Government to ensure the gender gap is closed
Women have played a critical role in tackling the Coronavirus pandemic yet have borne the brunt of it – particularly women researchers and scientists who have helped in the different stages of creating vaccines.
Commons Diary: A further fortnight of failure at the DfE
Education
By Wes Streeting MP
Commons Diary: A further fortnight of failure at the DfE
From a lack of school laptops, to delays in closing borders and ministers missing in action, Wes Streeting reflects on week where incompetence appears to have become a qualification for high office
We must urgently mobilise against Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy
Coronavirus
By Kawsar Zaman
We must urgently mobilise against Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy
From tackling disinformation to culturally sensitive messaging, we need a multi-faceted approach to boost the Covid-19 vaccine uptake in BAME communities
Will the challenges wrought by Covid push low-income families too far?
Coronavirus
By Kate Proctor
Will the challenges wrought by Covid push low-income families too far?
Children falling asleep at their desks, teachers washing their pupils’ school uniforms, kids being sent into school with a packet of crisps for lunch, and given paper at the end of the day because there won’t be any at home.
After Brexit and ahead of COP, UK construction must review supply chains Partner content
Environment
By Mineral Products Association
After Brexit and ahead of COP, UK construction must review supply chains
With Brexit done, many industries including construction are anxious about any future disruption at ports. But there are also pressing environmental and economic reasons to prompt construction to look at supply chains much more deeply, including questioning the carbon impacts of imported materials.
Tougher border controls are welcome, but hotel quarantine should apply to all travellers - not just those from ‘red list’ countries
Coronavirus
By Munira Wilson MP
Tougher border controls are welcome, but hotel quarantine should apply to all travellers - not just those from ‘red list’ countries
I have little doubt that had the UK followed other countries in enforcing a strict border policy early at the start of the pandemic, the death toll would be far lower than it is now.
Removing the £20 uplift to Universal Credit now would be a failure by government to recognise the reality of so many struggling families
Economy
By Stephen Timms MP
Removing the £20 uplift to Universal Credit now would be a failure by government to recognise the reality of so many struggling families
With the impact of the pandemic still being keenly felt, removing the £20 increase now makes no sense for the idea of UC as a safety net for all - or for the millions of families who rely on it to get by.
The government will betray a generation of leaseholders unless they provide funding to remediate dodgy cladding on all tower blocks
Communities
By Margaret Hodge MP
The government will betray a generation of leaseholders unless they provide funding to remediate dodgy cladding on all tower blocks
The money on offer is only a third of the £15 billion needed to make every home safe from fire and the exclusion of tower blocks below 18 metres from any support will saddle working families with long term debt.
'Quo Vadis, Aida?' – how the Srebrenica atrocity still weighs on the conscience of the west
Books & culture
By Baroness Helic
'Quo Vadis, Aida?' – how the Srebrenica atrocity still weighs on the conscience of the west
Shortlisted for this year's Academy Awards, Jasmila Žbanić’s extraordinary depiction of the unfolding horror of the Srebrenica massacre may succeed in proving that art can reveal the truth when politics fails
Government must assess the equality impact of every policy or risk turning the clock back
Social affairs
By Caroline Nokes MP
Government must assess the equality impact of every policy or risk turning the clock back
The government’s passive approach to gender equality is not enough. The Equalities Office needs to be more proactive in embedding equalities across government.
Government should enlist civil society to help our children catch up on lost learning
Education
By Sarah Atkinson
Government should enlist civil society to help our children catch up on lost learning
We harnessed every part of civil society in a national effort to protect the NHS. Surely we should think as boldly and act as bravely to protect our children’s future?
The government’s bung to university students doesn’t go nearly far enough
Coronavirus
By Paul Blomfield MP
The government’s bung to university students doesn’t go nearly far enough
The financial and educational deficits facing university students in the pandemic are far greater than many realise – they need a multi-faceted support package
Without being credibly costed, the Integrated Review risks reducing Britain’s foreign policy to ‘virtue signalling and symbolism’
Defence
By Lord Beamish
Without being credibly costed, the Integrated Review risks reducing Britain’s foreign policy to ‘virtue signalling and symbolism’
I fear the absence of a credible Defence and Equipment Plan could risk the Integrated Review immediately unravelling.
Adult Lockdown Lessons For Home Schooling
Education
By Robert Hutton
Adult Lockdown Lessons For Home Schooling
MPs urge government to heed skills shortage threat to net zero Partner content
Environment
By The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
MPs urge government to heed skills shortage threat to net zero
The UK will fail to meet its Net Zero target unless there is a “major increase” in the number of skilled engineers, MPs have warned, as a new report reveals the scale of the country’s skills gap.
As families get poorer, the government must not block measures to make uniforms more affordable
Education
By Mike Amesbury MP
As families get poorer, the government must not block measures to make uniforms more affordable
When many families are spending lockdowns worried about their finances, why should the cost of uniforms add to their list of concerns?
Only when Boris Johnson accepts responsibility for flaws in the Northern Ireland Protocol can we find a lasting solution
Brexit
By Alistair Carmichael MP
Only when Boris Johnson accepts responsibility for flaws in the Northern Ireland Protocol can we find a lasting solution
What is needed now is level-headed governance and a recognition of responsibility by those who created the Protocol in all its flaws, so that we can mitigate as many of them as possible.
Government must urgently change the law to end blanket ban on care home visits
Health
By Harriet Harman MP
Government must urgently change the law to end blanket ban on care home visits
People don’t forfeit their human rights when they go into care. They must not be denied the right to face-to-face visits from significant family and friends during the pandemic.
The UK and EU must be honest about the consequences of Brexit in Northern Ireland
Brexit
By Laura Hutchinson, Head of UK Political Intelligence
The UK and EU must be honest about the consequences of Brexit in Northern Ireland
With the delicate Northern Ireland Protocol facing more than just “teething problems”, all parties must take responsibility for their part in negotiating and now upholding it
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