Senior judge recommends scaling back of commons standards tsar’s dual role

Now, among a number of recommendations, senior judge Sir Ernest said MPs should no longer be able to debate or make amendments to standards reports when they…

The bloody history of North Shropshire’s by-election battleground

This Iron Age settlement, first occupied up to 3,000 years ago, is one of the biggest and best preserved in the country, second only to Maiden Castle…

Boris mustn’t underestimate the challenge from Reform UK

There was no realistic expectation of a Labour victory in the Old Bexley and Sidcup by-election, where the Tories had a majority of about 19,000 from the…