The opinions in Politics.co.uk's Comment section are those of the author. Nigel Farage has announced that he will resign as a ...

In 2003 Campbell left his position as Downing Street Director of Communications, but he has hardly left politics. He worked as Campaign Director for Labour’s winning 2005 election campaign, and acted ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Hooliganism” is the term used broadly to describe disorderly, aggressive and often violent behaviour perpetrated by spectators at sporting events. In the UK, hooliganism is almost exclusively ...

The Scottish parliament first sat in 1999. The Scottish parliament is based in the Holyrood area of the City of Edinburgh leading the Scottish parliament to sometimes also be called just ‘Holyrood’ , ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dan Jarvis was first elected as the Labour MP for Barnsley Central in a 2011 by-election, being reelected in 2019 with a majority of 3,571. He serves as Shadow Minister for Security, having been ...

Louise Haigh was first elected as the Labour MP for Sheffield Heeley in 2015, being reelected in 2019 with a majority of 8,520. The South Yorkshire constituency of Sheffield Heeley covers the south of ...

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 ...