A Labour MP has described animal health as “fundamental” to a wider attempt to rebuild trust with rural communities.  Speaking on the Labour conference fringe, Josh Newbury, the MP for Cannock Chase, ...

John Francis Spellar was first elected as the Labour MP for Warley in 1992, being reelected in 2019 with a majority of 11,511. He briefly served as the MP for Birmingham Northfield between a ...

The opinions in Politics.co.uk's Comment section are those of the author. Immigrants will be required to meet stricter conditions in order to earn the right to stay in the UK permanently, under a new ...

A senior minister has referred to the Liberal Democrat leader, Ed Davey, as a “fat bloke in a wetsuit”. Torsten Bell, who serves jointly as a pensions and Treasury minister, delivered the remarks ...

Delivering the Robin Cook memorial lecture was one of the greatest privileges of my time in Parliament. But it wasn’t just a ...

Keir Starmer has been urged to throw his support behind some form of proportional representation (PR) in order to embed ...

Andy Burnham has vowed to continue the debate he has instigated over the direction of the Labour Party under Keir Starmer’s ...

The UK has long been a global leader in financial services. Today, we have a unique opportunity to lead again – this time in ...

Jonathan Lis is deputy director of the pro-EU think tank British Influence and a political writer and commentator.

Stephen Timms was first elected Labour MP for East Ham (formerly Newham North East) in a 1994 by-election, having been reelected in 2019 with a majority of 33,176. The East Ham constituency in the ...

Vaccinations were first trialled in 1796 by Edward Jenner, a rural country doctor in Berkeley, in my constituency. He ...