A senior minister has referred to the Liberal Democrat leader, Ed Davey, as a “fat bloke in a wetsuit”. Torsten Bell, who serves jointly as a pensions and Treasury minister, delivered the remarks ...
Andy Burnham has vowed to continue the debate he has instigated over the direction of the Labour Party under Keir Starmer’s ...
Keir Starmer has been urged to throw his support behind some form of proportional representation (PR) in order to embed ...
Delivering the Robin Cook memorial lecture was one of the greatest privileges of my time in Parliament. But it wasn’t just a ...
Immigrants will be required to meet stricter conditions in order to earn the right to stay in the UK permanently, under a new government crackdown. Labour has announced that a government consultation ...
The UK has long been a global leader in financial services. Today, we have a unique opportunity to lead again – this time in ...
Vaccinations were first trialled in 1796 by Edward Jenner, a rural country doctor in Berkeley, in my constituency. He ...
The Terminally Ill Adults Bill has its second reading in the House of Lords today. I was devastated when it was passed by the House of Commons earlier this year. I’m not ashamed to say that my ...
Jonathan Lis is deputy director of the pro-EU think tank British Influence and a political writer and commentator.
Stephen Timms was first elected Labour MP for East Ham (formerly Newham North East) in a 1994 by-election, having been reelected in 2019 with a majority of 33,176. The East Ham constituency in the ...
When we talk about the great health challenges facing the UK, cancer and heart disease rightly come to mind. But too often we ...
The opinions in Politics.co.uk's Comment section are those of the author. A group of cross-party MPs have set out a “ready to go” blueprint for an independent review of the UK’s first past the post ...
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