This summer will always be seared in my memory. Like many people from my home town of Blaenavon, I have walked up Llanover ...

The shadow cabinet is the team of senior spokespeople chosen by the leader of the official opposition to mirror the government’s actual cabinet. The shadow cabinet is composed of MPs and peers from ...

A group representing Covid bereaved families has called for former health secretary Matt Hancock to be removed from the Privy ...

Reform UK will not abolish the House of Lords, one of the party’s MPs has said, calling the idea “constitutional vandalism”.

Andy Burnham was absolutely right to say he would fix our broken social care system, but he was wrong to argue that this ...

Jeremy Clarkson turned up at the Conservative conference in Birmingham earlier this month and said he could see no reason to start a business in Andy Burnham‘s Britain. He is a broadcaster rather than ...

A life peer is an individual who has been appointed to be a member of the House of Lords for their lifetime. The title and the right to sit in the House are not hereditary and are extinguished upon ...

The prime minister is the head of the government of the United Kingdom. By constitutional convention, the prime minister is the individual best placed to command the confidence (majority support) of ...

Leeds Town Hall, Leeds, West Yorkshire. Local government in England provides a range of public services and is structured primarily through either a one-tier or two-tier system. The one-tier system ...

Formally, the privy council is a body of advisers to the monarch of the United Kingdom. Historically, it was the private council of the sovereign and the primary instrument of state administration.

Sagal Abdi-Wali is the Labour MP for Holborn and St Pancras, and was first elected to parliament in a by-election on 8 October 2026.

Sir John Whittingdale is the Conservative MP for Maldon, having first been elected to parliament for the predecessor seat of South Colchester and Maldon in the 1992 general election. In the 2024 ...