Charlie Downes, a co-founder of Restore Britain, has argued that “racism” is “a made-up word used by the enemies of Western civilisation”. In a post on X on Tuesday, Downes wrote that the word is used ...

The Conservatives have pledged up to £10 billion over 10 years for a new missile and drone defence system, which the party ...

On 19 March 1649, the revolutionary Rump Parliament passed legislation to abolish the House of Lords. The move came seven weeks after the execution of King Charles I and was a key step in the ...

The shadow cabinet is the team of senior spokespeople chosen by the leader of the official opposition to mirror the government’s actual cabinet. The shadow cabinet is composed of MPs and peers from ...

Formally, the privy council is a body of advisers to the monarch of the United Kingdom. Historically, it was the private council of the sovereign and the primary instrument of state administration.

Gordon Brown served as prime minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from 2007 to 2010. Under his predecessor and occasional rival, Tony Blair, he spent 10 years as ...

The Muslim Council of Britain expressed its alarm about the scale of Islamophobia in parts of British society today, as revealed in a University of Birmingham survey carried out by YouGov. The survey, ...

A pressure group is an organised group of people united in the promotion of a common cause or interest. They are so-called because of their role in applying “pressure” on government, public opinion ...

Sir Edward Leigh is the Conservative MP for Gainsborough, and was first elected to Parliament for the predecessor seat of Gainsborough and Horncastle at the 1983 general election. Following the 2024 ...

Jo Swinson served as leader of the Liberal Democrats from July to December 2019. The first woman to serve as leader of the Liberal Democrats, Swinson was the MP for East Dunbartonshire from 2005 to ...

The civil service is the permanent, politically impartial organisation that supports the government of the day in developing and implementing its policies. It is the operational and administrative ...

Sir Mel Stride is the Conservative MP for Central Devon, having first been elected to parliament at the 2010 general election. In the 2024 general election, Stride received 16,831 votes, representing ...