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Labour’s Josh Simons to stand down as Makerfield MP to free up seat for BurnhamJosh Simons, the former Cabinet Office minister who is MP for Makerfield,…

As the dust settles on the government’s landmark changes to children’s special educational needs and disabilities provision, what will their impact really be on young people,…

When I was 11, a woman at the hospital asked me what school I was starting in September. I still remember her surprise when I told…

Whether the change is down to the shifting of the Overton window or the demise of basic decency, one awful feature of the current national conversation…

Where is this government heading, and who is now in charge? Keir Starmer looks even weaker than he did a week ago, uncoupled from the aides…

The police, said the home secretary, Shabana Mahmood, in the House of Commons on Monday, is “the last great unreformed public service”. Her white paper aims…

To combat rightwing populists, Chris Powell calls for “a local action network, a permanent organising infrastructure … to listen, act and communicate – identifying local problems,…

Political U-turns come in various forms, and as news of the latest government reversal drifted out, this one connected to the plight of the pub trade,…

Dining in the House of Lords canteen just after Labour came to power, one Labour adviser found themselves sitting opposite two Tory peers.In particular, the pair…

The formula for stable government, according to Britain’s constitution, is a big parliamentary majority and divided opposition. Sir Keir Starmer’s predicament proves that those conditions are…