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Ministers told they risk more miscarriages of justice by not backing bill to replace indefinite jail terms with fixed ones

Lord Tony Woodley says people still being held on abolished Imprisonment for Public Protection sentences are subjected to miscarriages of justice.

Labour bill has enraged some hereditary peers, but was also criticised by other lords for failing to go far enough

MPS have voted to abolish hereditary peers from the House of Lords, with a 362-vote majority in the House of Commons.

The Commons heard calls for the bishops to focus on matters in their ministries rather than on the running of the country.

Pete Wishart described Parliament’s second chamber as an ‘absurd embarrassment’.

The Home Office may have to refund tens of millions of pounds to people who were ‘unlawfully’ charged fees for checks in their visa applications

Two-thirds of the UK population are either overweight or obese – a crisis that costs billions each year in healthcare and lost productivity. Yet, in a 2021 review of nearly 700 obesity-related policies in England, researchers at the University of Cambridge found no evidence they had successfully reduced obesity. A…

Mr Welby said it was ‘very clear’ he must take responsibility and regretted the Church’s historic failures