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The veteran MP’s inspirational memoir charts a life in politics and testifies to the power of refusing to pipe down

Proponents of more homes, turbines and infrastructure – even on the green belt – prepare for rally at party conference

Rachel Reeves tells Labour MPs that axing allowance for all but poorest pensioners will help plug £22bn hole in finances

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Perhaps it was because I watched it during the first week of lockdown, but I have a particular attachment to this BBC documentary on House of Lords reform, first aired in February 2000. It is a Michael Cockerell production, so you know it will be good, but it is even better than that.

THERE’S no denying that Scotland’s public finances are in perhaps the most challenging state in the entire devolution era.

With more than half of parliament’s intake new to the job, many are still in a transition from their former careers

Esther McVey used poem about complicity with the Nazis to criticise Labour’s proposals about smoking in beer gardens

Chancellor understood to be looking at fifth extension of scheme to support people at risk of destitution