Smaller Parties Could Encourage Rethink Of Parliament Rules
The Standing Orders of the House of Commons – the written rules which regulate the proceedings of the House – only refer to the government, the official opposition, and the second largest opposition party, which is currently the SNP. They make provision for opposition days, and also regulate other parts of business such as time limits […]
Report Shows Thousands Of Children Under Six Being Sexually Abused Online
A new report by the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), the first analysis of its kind, has revealed widespread online sexual abuse of three to six-year-old children while they are using household devices. Thousands of images and videos analysed by the IWF show children being manipulated into “disturbing” sexual acts on camera, including penetration, masturbation, bestiality, and […]
Tory MPs Want “Security” To Dominate Their General Election Campaign
Tory backbenchers are urging No. 10 to consider making it a dominant and recurring theme of the campaign, covering not just national security and the issue of defence, but energy security and people feeling secure on their streets. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has so far refused to set out a specific date for the next general election, despite repeated […]
Government Has Scaled Back The Renters’ Reform Bill
The pledge to abolish Section 21 no-fault evictions is a cornerstone of Michael Gove’s landmark legislation to reform the private rental sector, but has been met with fierce backlash from some Conservative backbenchers and landlords. A letter from levelling up minister Jacob Young sent to Tory MPs on Thursday, first reported byThe Sun, lays out a series of amendments […]
Crime Bill Could Give Police Chiefs Power To Automatically Dismiss Officers
Police officers could have to hand over their phones if suspected of gross misconduct, and be automatically dismissed if convicted of a serious offence if changes to the government’s Criminal Justice Bill proposed by Labour MP Harriet Harman are accepted. Former justice minister and solicitor general Harman is hoping to amend the government’s flagship crime bill […]
Police To Investigate Angela Rayner Over Residency Declaration
Police had initially said Rayner would not face investigation following questions over whether she had paid the correct amount of tax on the sale of a property, but have revised this decision after James Daly, Tory MP for Bury North, complained that the electoral roll had not been taken into account. “We’re investigating whether any offences have […]
Rwanda Plan Set To Become Law
The Prime Minister said this morning that “nothing will stand in our way” of getting flights running, after a final version of the bill was agreed by MPs and the Lords in the early hours of Tuesday following hours of ping-pong between the two houses. Peers had been amending and pushing back on certain elements of […]
How to Solve the Housing Problem in the UK?
It is no stretch to claim that housing in the UK is a persistent and intractable public policy problem. It is also no stretch to suggest that current policy strategies are broadly frustrating goals of inequality reduction and decarbonisation. A housing market predicated on the generation of capital for owners, rather than the fulfilment of […]
