In December 2025, the Scottish Parliament passed legislation guaranteeing every child the opportunity to take part in a residential outdoor education experience during their school years. This was a ...

We don’t talk enough about the power of the disabled workforce to kickstart the nation’s ailing economy. Barely a week goes by that we don’t lament our flatlining productivity, with pundits and ...

There has been a conspiracy of silence from successive British governments on the true cost of biodiversity collapse. The ...

The opinions in Politics.co.uk's Comment section are those of the author. Keir Starmer has governed in defiance of expectations. From the seat of 10 Downing Street, every policy announcement eschews ...

In the English education system, academies are publicly-funded schools which operate independently of local authorities, doing so in a framework which the government claims is designed to promote ...

Boris Johnson served as prime minister between the summer of 2019 and September 2022. At the point when he announced he was standing down from office, the website Celebrity Net Worth was suggesting ...

The opinions in Politics.co.uk's Comment section are those of the author. The British government does not run this country. It has given away much of its decision-making power, weakening its ability ...

Proportional Representation (PR) is an electoral system whereby the composition of the elected body reflects the proportion of support gained by each political party standing in that election.

Reverend Jesse Jackson, infamous civil rights activist and the first African American ever to run for president of the United States, will speak to a committee of MPs about violent crime today. The ...

Steve Reed was first elected as the Labour MP for Croydon North in a 2012 by-election, being reelected in 2019 with a majority of 24,673. He serves as the shadow secretary of state of the environment, ...

The opinions in Politics.co.uk's Comment section are those of the author. Labour is not a party of the “centre-right”, a minister has said amid criticism of the government’s welfare reforms and ...

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 ...