The property ladder is a metaphor synonymous in the UK for a person’s desire to progress through the various stages of homeownership. Whether it’s due to a shortage of affordable homes, salaries outstripping house prices, or even the heavier tax burdens facing Britain’s younger generation, making that first step onto the property ladder has arguably…
Members of the House of Lords questioned the government’s response to Iran’s continued detention of British-Iranian Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe today. The urgent question was proposed by Labour peer Lord Foulkes of Cumnock, who asked: “Can the minister use his undoubted influence with the prime minister to get him to make it his now, his top priority…
Government refuses to declare atrocities in Xinjiang a genocide in its response to the Foreign Affairs Committee publishes the Government Response to its report “Never Again: The UK’s Responsibility to Act on Atrocities in Xinjiang and Beyond”, published over the weekend. The Government states that it will not “make determinations in relation to genocide” in…
The newest climate agreement draft has just been released by the UN after COP26 negotiations surpassed their Friday deadline. This is the text international delegates will negotiate later today. The “CMA” is a proposal to meet the obligations of the landmark Paris Agreement, and is an abbreviation of the “Conference of the Parties serving as the…
Do MPs earn enough money? It is a question that is polarising opinion in Westminster, as revelations of MPs second jobs show that many earn five and six-figure salaries aside from their day job. The father of the house, Sir Peter Bottomley, has in recent weeks called for MPs to be paid more to prevent…
Ireland’s European Affairs minister has today warned that the situation in Northern Ireland “is clearly very fragile”, as the UK-EU talks over the deal governing the British region post-Brexit rumble on with little sign of breakthrough. His comments come ahead of another scheduled meeting between Lord Frost and the EU Commission’s vice president Maroš Šefčovič…
One day, Prince Charles will be king, and will have a weekly audience with the prime minister. In 2015, his letters to ministers between 2004 and 2005 were revealed to the public, later named the “black spider memos”. Putting together these policies and interests, Politics.co.uk has put together a sort-of ‘Prince Charles’ Manifesto’. The post…
I felt a lot of sympathy this week seeing younger generations, led by Greta Thunberg, who decried what they saw as a gross display of elitist posturing and grandstanding by global leaders ostensibly attempting to ‘solve’ the climate crisis at COP26. I was there earlier this week, rubbing shoulders with the world’s elite as they…
The conduct of MPs continues to dominate the political sphere, amid ongoing revelations of lucrative second jobs and misuse of parliamentary privileges. Whilst the scandal continues to blight the Conservatives, Labour is struggling to claim the moral high ground in the debate. In reference to the attack by Deputy Labour Leader, Angela Rayner, on Conservative…
The Defence Secretary Ben Wallace is set to complain to the leaders of the Labour party and the SNP after he said three of their respective MPs were “drinking heavily” en route to an official visit to Gibraltar. The minister claims that Charlotte Nichols, a Labour MP, and the SNP MPs David Linden and Drew…
