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People under the age of 22 should get free bus travel to help them access work and training in otherwise cut-off communities, a committee of MPs…

Mary-Ann Stephenson has been confirmed as the new chair of the equalities watchdog, after the government overruled the objections of parliament’s equalities committee over her suitability…

The supreme court judgment on the application of the 2010 Equality Act has rendered the UK’s system of legal gender recognition entirely hollow. It has ruled…

Keir Starmer is under intense pressure from his most senior cabinet ministers and more than a third of MPs to move faster on recognising a Palestinian…

When David Lammy stood at the dispatch box to deliver a statement condemning Israel’s killing of starving civilians in Gaza on Monday, he was met with…

Keir Starmer has said he wants to reduce child poverty by the end of the parliament, as the prime minister comes under mounting pressure to end…

Miliband says Tory energy policy shows they are ‘anti-science, anti-jobs, anti-energy security, anti-future’Andrew Bowie, a shadow energy minster, responded for the Conseratives – not Claire Coutinho,…

Ed Miliband is to explicitly call out politicians who reject net zero policies for betraying future generations in an unprecedented update to parliament about the state…

MPs have voted to make assisted dying law in England and Wales. Opening the debate, Kim Leadbeater said that now was the moment to seize, to…

When Kim Leadbeater walked out of the chamber of the House of Commons into parliament’s central lobby, she was embraced by some campaigners who did not…