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Sources say party should have focused on the moral case for reforming the benefits system

A SPEECH on Scottish independence by John Swinney has been met with a tepid reception from campaigners. 

Tory leader fails to find a sensitive side as she flails alongside parents and survivors of child abuse gangs

Sir Lindsay Hoyle said he would like to take the Government to task over the issue but that he had ‘not got the power’.

David Gauke was speaking to MPs about his sentencing review

Energy bills are set to rise again before this Christmas, Martin Lewis has warned

The new leader of a Scottish council has admitted that the minority SNP administration is "vulnerable" following a crunch vote

COMMENT: As two backbench Labour MPs break ranks to voice their support for rewriting the Convention – following an even more surprising intervention by Lib Dem leader Ed Davey – John Rentoul wonders if both sides of the Commons have realised that this is the only way Britain can remain…

‘The law in this area has not kept pace with societal change,’ Labour MP Jen Craft told the Commons.

Wes Streeting told MPs that reputations are protected instead of patients being told the truth.

Former French prime minister Francois Fillon was on Tuesday given a four-year suspended prison sentence over a fake jobs scandal that wrecked his 2017 presidential bid.