For my constituents in Edinburgh, the defence debate in Westminster can sometimes feel distant, dominated by discussion of ...

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 ...

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 ...

The term “woke” has fed its way into popular culture over the past few years. In plain English, the word is simply the past tense of “to wake”, i.e. to stop sleeping. However, spreading from its ...

Change is coming to Westminster, no matter the outcome of the next election. Whether it’s a landslide Labour victory or a shock Sunak comeback, a new crop of aspirant MPs will be marching to ...

The opinions in Politics.co.uk's Comment section are those of the author. Andy Burnham has entered Downing Street as prime minister, becoming the seventh person to hold the office in a decade. Burnham ...

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 ...

The opinions in Politics.co.uk's Comment section are those of the author. After Angela Rayner’s resignation last week, the sweeping cabinet reshuffle that followed, and the blundering defenestration ...

The opinions in Politics.co.uk's Comment section are those of the author. There has been a conspiracy of silence from successive British governments on the true cost of biodiversity collapse. The ...

The news that Andy Burnham would stand as the MP for Makerfield was received with some surprise. In the throes of Labour’s May 2026 crisis, following the disastrous local and devolved parliament ...