The Latest Breaking News from House of Lords

It was only in 1991 that the House of Lords ruled that marital rape was illegal. This was just one of the many facts I needed reminding of and found in barrister Harriet Johnson’s compelling and forensically written book Enough: the Violence Against Women and How to End It. I…

At almost the last minute before the parliamentary session ended, after months of pushback from the House of Lords and despite vehement protests from those supporting refugees and migrants, the UK government has succeed in introducing the Nationality and Borders Act.

The police, crime, sentencing and courts bill has become law after an extended period of back and forth between the House of Commons and House of Lords. From its conception, the bill has been extremely controversial, particularly because of the increased powers it hands to police to stop protests.

THE Conservative party have been accused of making an “authoritarian power grab” of the Electoral Commission, after the government passed a new…

Independent Complaints and Grievance Scheme was set up three years ago to process official HR complaints

THE much criticised Nationality and Borders Bill is set to become law after being passed through UK Parliament on Wednesday night.

Ministers will now be able to direct the election watchdog’s priorities and control the committee that scrutinises it

Simon Woolley is the first black man working as master of Homerton college, Cambridge. He wants to use his role to encourage more black and working class kids to go to university

Poorer and northern pensioners in England will be forced to pay more than Boris Johnson's original plan - after he U-turned and hammered them with extra costs

The Government is trying to ram contentious immigration and asylum reforms through Parliament before the end of the session

In today’s newsletter: Archie Bland and Nimo Omer speak to MPs and peers about the toxic environment for women in parliament