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Match-fixing has spread to chess and darts, Lords’ select committee told

Match-fixing has increased at an ‘extraordinary’ rate across the world, a select committee of the House of Lords has been told

The Guardian - UK

Downing Street defends Starmer picking new Labour peers on resignation honours list

Labour has previously accused the Tories of having ‘stuffed’ the red benches while in power

The Independent UK

OPINION - Labour’s abuse of Parliament must stop

Andy Burnham seems just as keen as Keir Starmer to support rapid social and constitutional change proceeding without proper scrutiny, writes Conservative peer Ross Kempsell

Evening Standard

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Former Scottish secretary Alister Jack asks UK Government to cut Holyrood's powers

FORMER Scottish secretary Alister Jack has asked the UK Government to review what is devolved to the Scottish Parliament and cut its powers ...

The National (Scotland)

Lord Mackay of Clashfern obituary

Highly principled Scottish lawyer chosen by Margaret Thatcher to serve as lord chancellor in 1987

The Guardian - UK

Lord Lebedev backs landmark Nature’s Rights Bill in Lords debate

Lord Lebedev said the Bill addressed ‘one of the greatest crises of our times’, citing deforestation, habitat loss, and the illegal wildlife trade

Evening Standard

Bill to give Government powers to nationalise steel industry clears Lords hurdle

The Steel Industry (Nationalisation) Bill passed committee stage in the upper chamber.

Evening Standard

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Dining across the divide: ‘He talked about replacing the House of Lords with some kind of Joe Bloggs House of Representatives’

A psychotherapist and a town councillor might not see eye to eye on a citizens’ assembly, but did one of them have a change of heart about the monarchy?

The Guardian - UK

Blue passports, Big Ben and Bpoplive: the Brexit referendum anniversary quiz

Who put Theresa May’s back up on Instagram, what did Boris Johnson say about bananas and much more

The Guardian - UK

Lady Ramsay of Cartvale obituary

MI6 spy on the ‘Moscow watch’ who was involved in the audacious escape of the double agent Oleg Gordievsky

The Guardian - UK

Labour MP bringing back assisted dying bill urges House of Lords to finish its job

Lauren Edwards dismisses party internal concerns and criticises ‘anti-democratic’ way bill was halted

The Guardian - UK

Voices: ‘We had to watch him struggle for days’: Readers on end-of-life suffering as assisted dying bill returns

YOUR VIEWS: As the assisted dying debate reignites, our community shared deeply emotional accounts of relatives facing prolonged illness and distress at the end of life, alongside concerns about whether current laws provide sufficient dignity and protection for the most vulnerable

The Independent UK

MPs reject bid to revive Royal Albert Hall Bill amid ‘outrageous profiteering’ claims

MPs have rejected a bid to revive legislation concerning the Royal Albert Hall, following a blistering attack on the charity’s governance by Labour grandee Dame Emily Thornberry. She accused the renowned London venue of running a "racket" that allows "the most outrageous profiteering".

Evening Standard

MP reigniting assisted dying debate says faith in democracy must be restored

Lauren Edwards said she was ‘really disappointed and quite frustrated’ when the Bill ran out of time in the House of Lords.

Evening Standard

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International Business Times UK

MP Lauren Edwards Deploys Rare Parliament Act to Bypass Lords and Pass Historic Assisted Dying Bill

Labour MP reintroduces the Terminally Ill Adults Bill, aiming to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales, using a rare parliamentary mechanism to potentially bypass the House of Lords.

The Independent UK

Attempt to reintroduce assisted dying bill sparks new Labour civil war

Rochester and Strood MP Lauren Edwards will reintroduce Kim Leadbeater’s highly controversial Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill which would allow assisted deaths in England and Wales

Evening Standard

Assisted dying Bill to be reintroduced as MP urges peers ‘not to block it’

Labour MP Lauren Edwards has launched a fresh bid to legalise assisted dying, after the Bill fell in the Lords in April.

The Guardian - UK

Labour MP Lauren Edwards to bring assisted dying bill back to the Commons

MP for Rochester and Strood to use private member’s bill to put issue before MPs again after it was blocked by the Lords

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The Independent UK

All the politicians who have left Keir Starmer’s government since 2024 election

Defence secretary John Healey is the sixth Labour minister to resign in the past month alone

The Independent UK

E-bike hire firms face council fines over abandoned bikes on pavements

Members of the House of Lords voiced concerns over bikes being left on pavements

The Independent UK

Archbishop tells Parliament artificial intelligence regulations fail to protect human dignity

Dame Sarah Mullally cited reports which showed ‘evidence that chatbots are now facilitating violence against women and girls’

The Independent UK

Former Conservative MP and deputy speaker Alan Haselhurst dies aged 88

Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle described him as a ‘distinguished and respected parliamentarian’

The Guardian - UK

MPs who backed assisted dying bill don’t expect it to return via act that bypasses Lords

Prominent backers including Louise Haigh say they would not support using Parliament Acts to pass bill

The Independent UK

Former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson announces cancer has returned

The Labour peer was initially diagnosed with non-aggressive prostate cancer in March 2023

The Independent UK

Tributes pour in for MI6 ‘trailblazer’ Baroness Meta Ramsay

Her tenure included participation in the 1985 extraction of KGB double agent Oleg Gordievsky from the Soviet Union

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