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Furore over freebies like tickets to Taylor Swift concerts and football games has led to calls for reform to MPs’ gift declarations and an overhaul of the ministerial code

The veteran MP’s inspirational memoir charts a life in politics and testifies to the power of refusing to pipe down

The former president remains the likelier winner of the election, and the UK needs a working relationship with whoever is in the White House

Rachel Reeves tells Labour MPs that axing allowance for all but poorest pensioners will help plug £22bn hole in finances

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Perhaps it was because I watched it during the first week of lockdown, but I have a particular attachment to this BBC documentary on House of Lords reform, first aired in February 2000. It is a Michael Cockerell production, so you know it will be good, but it is even better than that.

THERE’S no denying that Scotland’s public finances are in perhaps the most challenging state in the entire devolution era.

With more than half of parliament’s intake new to the job, many are still in a transition from their former careers

Esther McVey used poem about complicity with the Nazis to criticise Labour’s proposals about smoking in beer gardens