Keir Starmer has insisted that he will not “walk away” as prime minister after Labour suffered significant losses in the 2026 ...

The Liberal Democrats are a centre-left, pro-European, political party, colloquially referred to as the Lib Dems. In January 2022, there were 13 Lib Dem MPs, 11 who were elected in the 2019 general ...

Support for Scottish independence has increased steadily in recent decades. Where polling suggested little more than 10% of Scots favoured independence in the early 1980s, the figure had risen to 30% ...

Earlier this year I had the pleasure of sponsoring a Dogs Trust event in parliament highlighting an important and overlooked ...

The 2011 Fixed Term Parliament Act of 2011 scheduled a UK General Election for the first Thursday of May, five years after the previous election. The Act mandated that early elections could be called ...

In terms of economic policy, the Conservative Party is economically liberal, generally favouring the free market and opposing government controls. Positioning itself as the party of small business, ...

The BBC Charter sets out its four public purposes. The first of these is “to provide impartial news and information to help people understand and engage with the world around them.” In keeping with ...

The next general election in the United Kingdom must be held by January 2025. Given the government’s current position in the opinion polls, one in which they trail the Labour Party by around 20%, it ...

Laura Kuenssberg is currently the well-known face of the BBC’s political programming. Having served for over 7 years as the BBC’s political editor, she has now become the host of BBC One’s flagship ...

The opinions in Politics.co.uk's Comment section are those of the author. The Conservative Party has unveiled a full bill that it claims, if enacted, would “take back control of our borders”. The ...

Thangam Debbonaire was first elected as the Labour MP for Bristol West in 2015, being reelected in 2019 with a majority of 28,219. She currently serves as shadow secretary of state for culture, media ...

Since 1922, Britain’s Labour Party has either formed the country’s Government or constituted the Official Opposition. The Party has been in power for just over a third of the period since the Second ...