In every generation, the United Kingdom has had to relearn a simple truth: peace is protected by strength, and strength ...
The towns and cities we build must start with a simple, often neglected principle: decisions about housing and infrastructure ...
MPs voted by 348-228 — a majority of 120 — against a Conservative motion condemning the government’s winter fuel allowance cuts. The government will now scrap the winter fuel allowance for all ...
By Kat Hall, Director of Bay Care Group and founder of Care About Care For more than two decades, social care has occupied a familiar place in our politics: everyone agrees that it needs reform, yet ...
Businesses of all sizes are creating jobs, investing in skills and driving growth in communities across the country. They do so against a backdrop of increasing geopolitical instability and under a ...
1993 – Tim Yeo, environment and countryside minister, forced to resign after scandal involving ‘love child’ with Tory councillor, Julia Stent. Child born on 8th July 1993 – in the middle of the ...
What are immigration removal centres? Immigration removal centres are holding centres for foreign nationals awaiting decisions on their asylum claims or awaiting deportation following a failed ...
When a government spends more than it collects, it runs an annual budget deficit. This is formally known as the Public Sector Net Cash Requirement. The accumulation of previous annual budget deficits, ...
Rachael Maskell was first elected as ‌the‌ Labour MP‌ ‌for‌ York Central in 2015, being reelected in the 2019‌ ‌General‌ ‌Election‌ ‌with‌ ‌a‌ ‌majority‌ ‌of 13,545‌. The constituency of York Central ...
The opinions in Politics.co.uk's Comment section are those of the author. Elon Musk has deleted a post on X, the social media platform he owns, in which he spread fake news about “detainment camps” ...
Do the public support the monarchy? The argument that the UK should abolish the monarchy and become a republic remains at the fringes of mainstream political debate. The British monarchy as an ...
Ian Dunt served as the editor-at-large of Politics.co.uk until 2021. He is a regular host on the Oh God What Now podcast, a columnist for the New European and the i newspaper, and the author of two ...