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 ...
A parliamentary private secretary (PPS) is an MP appointed by a government minister to act as their unpaid assistant, providing a link between the senior frontbencher and backbench MPs. The role is ...
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.
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, ...
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 ...
Andy Burnham is the prime minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the Labour and Co-operative Party MP for Makerfield, having returned to parliament at a by-election ...
On 17 April 1969, the Representation of the People Act, a landmark piece of legislation that lowered the voting age in the United Kingdom from 21 to 18, received royal assent. The act, sometimes ...
Jim Shannon is the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) MP for Strangford, having first been elected to Parliament on 6 May 2010. In the 2024 general election, Shannon won 15,559 votes, representing 40.0% ...
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 ...
On 8 August 1980, the Housing Act received royal assent, enacting the “right to buy’’ for council house tenants – one of the flagship policies of Margaret Thatcher’s first Conservative government. The ...
On 29 December 1975, new legislation introducing a woman’s right to equal pay and status in the workplace and in society came into force. The implementation of the Sex Discrimination Act and the Equal ...
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