The reintroduction of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill has sparked a profound and acrimonious internal conflict within the Labour Party, as the legislation’s new sponsor, Lauren Edwards, faces scrutiny over her past tweets. The Rochester and Strood MP, who
In the year 2000, just over 2% of young people (14-24) across the UK presented to primary care with a mental health issue. Fast forward to 2023, and that figure has quadrupled, with referrals to children’s mental health services specifically having tripled
When people think about higher education, they often picture leafy campuses, freshers’ weeks and teenagers heading off to university at 18. For millions of people in Britain, though, life simply does not work like that. Mine certainly did not. Before I entered
18 years ago, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. My diagnosis was delayed after I was initially sent away by a GP, and by the time my cancer was identified it had spread to my lymph glands. They had to be removed,
A landmark study, part of a PHD, exposes a “systemic underestimation” of the importance of marriage in the UK, challenging the foundation of Government social policy over the last quarter of a century. The major new report, from the Marriage Foundation, shatters
The Treasury is preparing the ground for a possible shift in fiscal policy as the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, indicates that tax increases may be the only viable route to funding the United Kingdom’s escalating defence requirements. In a series of interventions that
Small, independent businesses are the backbone of our economy. In my constituency of Isle of Wight East, a coastal community of 67,000 residents, the hospitality and tourism sector provides employment to a large proportion of the local population, second only to health
Abortion is a generally safe procedure for women. It is not my purpose in bringing this Bill forward to dispute that. Rather the question this Bill raises is how safe it is. To know that we need statistics that reflect real experience.
For more than two centuries, families have made their homes on Britain’s rivers and canals. Yet the law has never properly caught up with them. Boat dwellers occupy a strange limbo, both too settled to be ignored and too mobile to be
For too long, creative education has been treated as an optional extra in our schools: a luxury to be squeezed in when time and budgets allow. Yet creativity is not an enrichment activity. It is a fundamental human capacity and one of
Britain is not as prepared as it needs to be. In an era the Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy describes as one of “radical uncertainty”, the threats we face are multiplying and our approach to resilience has not kept pace.
**A BILL TO require large companies to appoint a named director responsible for compliance with statutory waste duty of care obligations; to make such companies financially responsible for the clean-up and clearance of waste they have generated or controlled where that waste
