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Politics is not just an activity conducted in Westminster corridors, with the voters locked out, says the Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

A single man would gain £346 from tax cuts, compared with £279 for a woman and just £85 for the typical lone mother

Letters: Readers respond to an article by Stella Creasy about the threats MPs face, and the presence of protesters outside their homes and offices

I can only imagine Vladimir Putin’s laughter in Moscow. Last week, Ben Jamal, director of the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign, told protesters at Westminster he wanted a situation where “they will have to lock the doors of parliament itself”. Three MPs — all women, naturally — have been given police protection.…

The Jockey Club’s petition to abandon the controversial new checks drew mixed responses from MPs on Monday

Sir Lindsay Hoyle tells MPs he was advised that granting fresh vote could be further breach of Commons protocol

Health minister Maria Caulfield ‘disappointed and surprised’ by Lindsay Hoyle’s actions but refrains from calling for his resignation

Other lives: Labour councillor in Westminster who became a translator in the classical record industry

While we welcome the apparent change in Keir Starmer’s position, the UK must back an immediate ceasefire in no uncertain terms, says Stephen Flynn, SNP leader at Westminster