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The deputy prime minister insists he just has high expectations of his staff but that is not what ‘professionalism’ really means.
The former prime minister insists gatherings with wine were essential work meetings.
Johnson claims he didn’t know pandemic rules were broken when parties were held in Downing Street.
It’s rare to have quite so many former PMs and first ministers still in parliament.
Boothroyd smashed the glass ceiling just as House of Commons proceedings began being broadcast, which made her no-nonsense interventions even more famous.
Cohabitation reform is needed in England and Wales to better protect couples legally upon relationship breakdown.
The prime minister’s pledge to bring integrity to public office could become a stick to beat him with – just like ‘back to basics’ became for John Major.
Workers have gradually lost all powers to take industrial action when they feel conditions are unfair.
Why age and gender are such prominent mechanisms of exclusion in parliaments and governments.
When civil servants and MPs can’t speak up against ministers, they can’t do their jobs properly.
The prospect of Boris Johnson and Liz Truss adding peers to the House of Lords has reopened a knotty debate that never quite gets resolved.
When government whips turned a vote on fracking into a vote of confidence in the government, confusion ensued.
From calling his opponent a bollard to shutting parliament for an extended period, Johnson has pushed the limits of the ‘good chaps school of government’.
The two front runners are more likely to face a right-wing candidate like Liz Truss than each other in the final phase of the race to replace Boris Johnson.
Conservative MPs vote in the first round and members in the second.
The UK prime minister tendered his resignation after a slew of resignations by former allies in his government.
He hardly has any government ministers and his own cabinet tried to force him to resign. What is going on?
Over the course of an extraordinary 24 hours, dozens of Conservative MPs have written to Boris Johnson to announce their resignation from his government following multiple scandals. Many of these letters…
An Africa-based conservation expert explains why trophy hunting has not delivered for wildlife in most parts of Africa, and that local communities benefit next to nothing from its continued practice
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