By John Marshall, Executive Chair, Potential Energy Coalition The wider potential consequences of the Makerfield by-election will inevitably spark a familiar debate in Westminster. What does the ...

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What is the Millennium Dome? The Millennium Dome was the centrepiece of British celebrations for the dawning of the year 2000. Built on the site of the Meridian Line in north Greenwich – symbolising ...

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The opinions in Politics.co.uk's Comment section are those of the author. MPs have backed the government’s welfare reforms after ministers signalled a major eleventh-hour U-turn to appease Labour ...

The opinions in Politics.co.uk's Comment section are those of the author. Reform UK’s former deputy leader has launched a new political party. Ben Habib, who served as deputy to then-leader Richard ...

Harriett Baldwin was elected as the Conservative Member of Parliament for West Worcestershire in 2010, being re-elected with a majority of 24,499 in 2019. West Worcestershire is a rural seat that sits ...

John Healey was first elected as the Labour MP for Wentworth in 1997, being reelected in the 2019 election with a majority of 2,165. The constituency of Wentworth and Dearne is located in the middle ...

Sir Gavin Williamson is the state-school taught, tarantula loving, ‘baby faced assassin’ who ran the Department of Education between 2019 and 2021. He was sacked by Boris Johnson in September 2021 and ...

Kim Leadbeater is the Labour MP for Batley and Spen. She was elected in a July 2021 by-election with the narrow majority of 323 votes. The by-election saw something of a bad tempered campaign even by ...

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Carrie Johnson may be the partner of the current Conservative Prime Minister, but her paternal grandfather is the late John Beavan, one-time editor of the Daily Herald and later, during the 1970s, a ...