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US president gave 40-minute speech to the country’s House of Commons during a visit to Ottawa

It comes as a new poll reveals more than two thirds of people do not believe the former prime minister's defence of the Downing Street partygate scandal

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The last few years of drama at Westminster have set the bar pretty high for shock and surprise, but the sudden departure from government of Sue Gray, second permanent secretary to the Cabinet Office, and her proposed appointment as chief of staff to the leader of the Labour Party really…

Labour MP Jess Phillips spent almost five minutes reading out the names of women killed in the UK in the last year.

New figures show ex-PM’s outside pay this year accounts for about 85% of that for all MPs

The Government continues to come under fire for the time it has taken to respond in full to a key contaminated blood scandal report about compensation.

The United Kingdom’s Illegal Migration Bill, introduced in the House of Commons this week, will look very familiar to Australians.

In the UK, misleading parliament is a serious offence. The clearest rules around making inaccurate statements to parliament come from outside of the institution itself. They come from the ministerial code (which applies to ministers) and the Seven Principles of Public Life (which applies to all those in public office).