Vaccinations were first trialled in 1796 by Edward Jenner, a rural country doctor in Berkeley, in my constituency. He ...

The Terminally Ill Adults Bill has its second reading in the House of Lords today. I was devastated when it was passed by the House of Commons earlier this year. I’m not ashamed to say that my ...

After Angela Rayner’s resignation last week, the sweeping cabinet reshuffle that followed, and the blundering defenestration ...

Labour’s Employment Rights Bill is set to fundamentally improve work for the millions of workers stuck on exploitative short ...

Summer is definitely over”, exhaled a self-assured sounding Keir Starmer on Monday. The prime minister had just kicked off ...

Lord Mandelson may no longer be US ambassador, but Starmer still has many questions he must answer about this debacle.

When we talk about the great health challenges facing the UK, cancer and heart disease rightly come to mind. But too often we ...

Reform UK contends fracking would fix Britain’s energy crisis. But here’s the truth: it wouldn’t cut your bills, it wouldn’t ...

The opinions in Politics.co.uk's Comment section are those of the author. The most successful tend to follow a similar format: two hosts, notionally on different sides of the political divide, but ...

What is lobbying in politics? Lobbying is a catch-all term to describe ‘special interest’ groups and their tactics to gain influence in the political process, particularly around the shaping of ...

The opinions in Politics.co.uk's Comment section are those of the author. MPs have voted to decriminalise abortion in England and Wales so that women cannot be prosecuted for terminating their ...

The opinions in Politics.co.uk's Comment section are those of the author. A group of cross-party MPs have set out a “ready to go” blueprint for an independent review of the UK’s first past the post ...