Sixty-six MPs who already plan to stand down at election have 987 years between them, analysis showsThe Conservative party will lose almost 1,000 years of Commons experience just from MPs who have already announced they are...
Read MoreUnlock Democracy report notes that path to gender equality in Lords has slowed in recent yearsRishi Sunak has the worst record on appointing women from his party to the House of Lords of any prime minister since John Major, with...
Read MoreAll three main parties have come under scrutiny for their roles in one of Britain’s worst miscarriages of justiceAll major parties face questions about why it took an ITV drama to provoke meaningful political action on the...
Read MoreRecord number of female and ethnic minority MPs expected to sit in Commons according to study of candidate selectionsThe next general election is set to herald the most diverse parliament ever, with record numbers of ethnic...
Read MoreNational Archives papers show prime minister tried in vain to avoid inquiry over Peter Wright’s memoirsMargaret Thatcher was “utterly shattered” by the revelations in Spycatcher, the memoirs of the retired MI5...
Read MoreThen prime minister thought idea of moving club to Northern Ireland should be encouraged ‘as much as possible’The former prime minister Sir Tony Blair was keen on an idea to relocate the then-Premier League football...
Read MoreLabour went into the 1997 general election full of confidence. Now, 26 years on from that famous victory, Kiran Stacey hears as those who helped craft it look ahead and ask if it is time to be more radicalThis week we are...
Read MoreIn 1996 Labour was a year out from an election after more than a decade out of power. Its leader, Tony Blair, was surrounded by advisers and strategists plotting their way to victory. Kiran Stacey hears how they did itThis week...
Read MoreNational Archives files show PM presented with shock resignation of incumbent less than month after failed Arnhem landingsAs well as directing Britain’s war effort, Winston Churchill had another seemingly crucial matter to...
Read MoreScottish political theorist at the heart of the ‘new left’ in the 1960s who argued prolifically for the breakup of BritainTom Nairn, who has died at the age of 90, was a political philosopher and major figure in the...
Read MoreSinn Féin leader said he would have faced ‘serious dilemma’ if he knew, according to declassified documentsGerry Adams would not have stopped the IRA bombing of the London Docklands in 1996 if he had known...
Read MoreNational Archives documents show concerns raised over Scottish National Portrait Gallery’s proposalDowning Street feared that a group portrait of Tony Blair’s cabinet that the Scottish National Portrait Gallery...
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Labour has secured mayoral victories in London, Greater Manchester,
Sadiq Khan has won a historic third term as
Labour incumbent beat Tory candidate Susan Hall, despite inaccurate
The results of mayoral elections in Greater Manchester, London
The results of mayoral elections in Greater Manchester, London
Wins in East Midlands, North East and North Yorkshire
Co-leader Adrian Ramsay says party has won spread of
Party did better in places it had lost since
Spread of Tory losses leads former minister to say
Glossy promotional leaflet handed out to asylum seekers detained