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 ...

The Terminally Ill Adults Bill has its second reading in the House of Lords today. I was devastated when it was passed by the House of Commons earlier this year. I’m not ashamed to say that my ...

When we talk about the great health challenges facing the UK, cancer and heart disease rightly come to mind. But too often we ...

Labour’s Employment Rights Bill is set to fundamentally improve work for the millions of workers stuck on exploitative short ...

After Angela Rayner’s resignation last week, the sweeping cabinet reshuffle that followed, and the blundering defenestration ...

What is lobbying in politics? Lobbying is a catch-all term to describe ‘special interest’ groups and their tactics to gain influence in the political process, particularly around the shaping of ...

The opinions in Politics.co.uk's Comment section are those of the author. Successful reshuffles have a theme and act as the launchpad for a refreshed government. Keir Starmer’s first major frontbench ...

“Summer is definitely over”, exhaled a self-assured sounding Keir Starmer on Monday. The prime minister had just kicked off the new parliamentary term with a relatively wholesale rejig of his Downing ...

The opinions in Politics.co.uk's Comment section are those of the author. I knocked on enough doors as the Labour candidate in Central Suffolk and North Ipswich during last year’s general election to ...