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Legislation to pardon women who have been convicted of illegal abortions has passed its final parliamentary hurdle, paving the way for a landmark change in the…

The government has agreed to ban the production of pornography depicting sex acts between stepfamily members following a vote in the House of Lords.The government tabled…

Key events6m agoZelenskyy warns that cheap drone technology has increased risks of attack40m agoZelenskyy to address MPs and peers in parliament42m agoMSPs to vote on assisted…

Tom TugendhatMP for Tonbridge; former security ministerTugendhat was first elected in 2015. The son of a high court judge, Tugendhat served in Iraq and Afghanistan, and…

Supporters of assisted dying will seek to force through the bill using an archaic parliamentary procedure if it continues to be blocked by the Lords.The high…

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…

Britain’s biggest business groups have urged Conservative peers to stop blocking Labour’s landmark workers’ rights bill in the House of Lords to avoid throwing away a…

Simon Jenkins is right that the Lords should not kill legislation by procedural manoeuvre (Unelected Lords are blocking assisted dying: that’s a democratic outrage) . But…

Peers will mount a new offensive to halt the assisted dying bill on Friday, tabling almost 1,000 new amendments to the legislation in an effort to…

At all institution types, students living off campus reported a 16 percent higher sense of belonging than those living on campus. Daniel de la Hoz/iStock/Getty Images Plus…