London (Parliament Politics Magazine) – Yvette Cooper promised to halve knife crime across the UK in a decade and to present a ban on ninja swords during her address at the Labour Conference. The Home Secretary expressed it’s too easy for children
London (Parliament Politics Magazine) – Flash flooding caused schools to shut down and disrupted trains after some areas dropped a fortnight’s worth of rain in an hour. An amber weather caution covering parts of southern and central England including Oxford, Bristol, and
London (Parliament Politics Magazine) – Grammar schools in the UK have been instructed to publish particulars about their admissions tests. The order by a first-tier tribunal required the Lincolnshire consortium of grammar schools to unleash anonymised results for children who posed its
London (Parliament Politics Magazine) – The UK government is preparing to appoint a special envoy for nature for the first time, as the foreign secretary, David Lammy, aims to put the UK at the centre of global measures to tackle the world’s
London (Parliament Politics Magzine) – The royal family has offered a small peace offering in its split with the Duke of Sussex by wishing Prince Harry a happy birthday for the first time in three years. In a post on X, the
London (Parliament Politics Magazine) – A man is alleged to have sexually attacked a woman on the day he was released from prison under the government’s early discharge scheme. The contentious scheme, which allows some prisoners to be freed after serving 40%
London (Parliament Politics Magazine) – Infringements of personal data in UK court proceedings have rushed to more than 10,000 in a year, with the dramatic growth being blamed on new digital systems in justice. Court attendants and lawyers have been mistakenly uploading
London (Parliament Politics Magzine) – PM Keir Starmer has stated that he ordered a portrait of Margaret Thatcher to be moved out of his Downing Street study not out of disapproval for her, but because he dislikes operating with pictures of anyone
London (Parliament Politics Magazine) – The Labour MP Rosie Duffield states ditching the winter fuel payment for all pensioners in England and Wales is a “brutal” action, which, she worries, could lead to people dying. The government reported in July plans to
London (Parliament Politics Magazine) – The family of James Kirby, a World Central Kitchen support worker killed in Gaza, have called for an independent inquiry into his death and expressed neither British nor Israeli diplomats had been in contact, even though an