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Former prime ministers are currently making a habit of intervening in government policy. Boris Johnson deployed sources to urge current prime minister Rishi Sunak not to abandon his Brexit policies and to send fighter jets to Ukraine. Liz Truss also used her first speech on the backbenches since leaving Downing…

Daughter of Dewsbury textile workers became a megastar over her five decades in parliament – despite multiple failed attempts to win her seat

The Justice Secretary said preparatory work to establish the independent public advocate is ‘well under way’.

MP fought back tears as she proposed Gabe's Law to the House of Commons in memory of teenager Gabriel Santer

The Social Housing (Regulation) Bill - including the amendment Awaab's Law - will finally be debated in the House of Commons

Baroness Betty Boothroyd, who has died at the age of 93, was, in no uncertain terms, a parliamentary giant. With a career in Westminster spanning almost 50 years, she was best known for becoming the first (and so far only) female speaker of the House of Commons – a post…

EU and UK hail ‘new chapter’ in relations as new Brexit deal reached to fix protocol

In today’s newsletter: the key takeaways from Rishi Sunak and Ursula von der Leyen’s announcement of the Windsor agreement

Keir Starmer told the House of Commons that Labour will "put country before party" and support the so-called Windsor Framework, which undoes many of Mr Johnson's catastrophic failures

LONDON — The United Kingdom and the European Union reached a new deal on Northern Ireland’s trading arrangements aimed at ending years of often acrimonious wrangling and paving the way for warmer relations more than half a decade after Britons voted for Brexit.

Politicians paid tribute to the ‘one of a kind’ politician, describing her as kind, witty, and having natural authority.