Twelve years ago, the scandal of abuse at Winterbourne View was revealed by BBC Panorama. The mistreatment of autistic people and people with learning disabilities in inappropriate inpatient settings brought the issue into public and political consciousness. At the timethe scale of
Nigel Lawson was easily one of the most consequential chancellors of the modern era, only Gordon Brown can claim to have had a greater impact but for quite different reasons. Where Lawson cut tax, Brown redistributed wealth on a scale still not
Labour has demanded that Rishi Sunak’s Government “get on the side of working people” and enforce a freeze on Council Tax, as ONS figures confirm for the first time that 2022 was a record year for North Sea Oil and Gas profits.
Nigel Lawson was a titan of the conservative party who dedicated five decades of his life to public service, a former chancellor, MP, journalist and peer he has died at 91. Lord Lawson was a key figure in Margaret Thatcher’s governments, who
Keep Parking Fair is warning that a proposed Private Parking Code of Practice for private car park operators will cause parking chaos, reward irresponsible drivers, and lead to millions more motorists ending up in court every year. The private parking industry body
Ed Miliband has today pledged that Labour’s Green Prosperity Plan will be a British version of President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act – investing in good, clean energy jobs that will rebuild Britain’s economy. Following on from Keir Starmer’s recent announcement that a
Later today, Boris Johnson will finally face the House of Commons Privileges Committee, which since April of last year has been investigating the former Prime Minister over what he knew and did not know about the so-called“Partygate” scandall. Specifically, whether Mr
At its heart, this contest is about who is best equipped and who has the best plan to achieve independence. It’s about the future of Scotland, the kind of country that we want to be. The next leader of the SNP party
The origins of my Private Members Bill, which is awaiting its third reading in the House of Lords, lie in a conversation I had with a couple in St Albansabout eight years ago. They had come to see me to tell me
Labour Leader Keir Starmer will tell the National Farmers’ Union Conference later today, that they ‘deserve a government that listens’, as he calls for a new way of governing, backing British farmers on domestic production, international trade and tackling rural crime.
