When I was much younger, in my first job working in politics, a senior colleague loudly suggested that I use a 'garden rake' ...

Twenty years ago, the Labour government launched the Commission for Africa. Now, Keir Starmer and David Lammy can lead a ...

Prime Minister Keir Starmer has congratulated Donald Trump on his "historic election victory" in the US. In a statement on ...

More than a third of 2024 Conservative voters do not expect the new party leader to last until the next general election.

Richard Cracknell, Elections statistics specialist at the House of Commons Library, delves into the data to reveal some interesting facts about ...

We didn’t just return an overwhelming majority at the election; we returned a very different type of parliament.

In June the search room of the Parliamentary Archives closed its doors for the last time as part of plans to relocate the collection to the ...

New Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has appointed Mel Stride as Shadow Chancellor and Priti Patel as Shadow Foreign Secretary, along with announcing other key members of her Shadow Cabinet. Badenoch ...

The Chancellor Rachel Reeves affirmed in Labour’s 2024 budget commitments to producing a 10-year Infrastructure Strategy and to the formation of ...

A straitened state is in retreat and banking on economic growth to fend off a return to austerity. But Sir Stephen Bubb tells Sophie Church it ...

The social care system is “basically at a standstill” following the Budget, the new chair of the Health and Social Care ...

Labour MP Sarah Owen has said the use of noisy fireworks is becoming “unneighbourly” as she leads a cross-party effort to ...