An overview of the debate around Scottish independence, covering its history, arguments made on either side, and the issues that would need to be resolved. thereafter.

MPs have voted to decriminalise abortion in England and Wales so that women cannot be prosecuted for terminating their pregnancy at any stage. The amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill passed by ...

The opinions in Politics.co.uk's Comment section are those of the author. ©House of Commons PMQs verdict: Keir Starmer relied on evasive manoeuvres ...

Reform UK’s former deputy leader has launched a new political party. Ben Habib, who served as deputy to then-leader Richard Tice from October 2023 – July 2024, had already set out his intention to ...

Universal Basic Income What is a Universal Basic Income? Universal basic income, commonly abbreviated as UBI is a program in which the government regularly grants every adult citizen a set sum of ...

Read the prime minister’s remarks in full below: Ladies and gentlemen – Britain is back on the world stage. Working with our partners. Doing deals that will grow our economy and putting more money in ...

The British government does not run this country. It has given away much of its decision-making power, weakening its ability to direct the country, despite the state’s increasing size. That is the ...

The comment set the tone for Davey and Starmer’s PMQs dialogue. In the following months, the prime minister and Lib Dem leader thanked each other for their responses and questions respectively. The ...

So even if MPs do end up debating the petition, there remains no constitutional mechanism whereby an extra-parliamentary campaign can directly secure the dissolution of parliament (assuming King ...

Kemi Badenoch will declare she is “increasingly of the view” that the UK needs to leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) in a significant speech setting out the Conservative Party’s path ...

Kemi Badenoch was in her political and ideological comfort zone at prime minister’s questions this afternoon. Since her elevation as leader in November 2024, ConservativeHome has tracked in real-time ...

A senior Conservative MP has said it is time to consider the “possibility” that the US president is a Kremlin asset. Graham Stuart, a former Foreign Office minister, issued the comment in response to ...