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11/08/2025

“This is money that should be feeding children, training nurses, and building schools.”

✍️ Labour MP Noah Law calls for action to end the debt crisis undermining global aid

The British public hasn’t lost its compassion, but it has lost trust in how international aid is delivered.

10/08/2025

🔄 Former Labour activist and prominent housing campaigner Chris Worrall has switched sides to support the Conservative Party

🏘️ He tells PoliticsHome that a Tory pro-growth agenda could create an "activist machine" to get the party back on track

Former Labour activist and prominent housing campaigner Chris Worrall has switched sides to support the Conservative Party, and tells Zoe Crowther ...

09/08/2025

🏙️ Reform won its first ever election in London last month with the success of candidate Alan Cook in Bromley

👇 Matilda Martin reveals how the party’s strategy for the capital is shaping up ahead of other key elections in the coming years

Reform UK is eyeing up the London council elections next year, seeing the contests as a “key step” in continuing its positive trajectory ahead of t...

08/08/2025

🤖 PoliticsHome reporter Zoe Crowther spoke with Britain's first AI MP to test its limits – and the conversation became quite weird

👀 After this chat, the (real) Labour MP Mark Sewards said he had to “tighten” the tool up to prevent such outlandish remarks

If you ever wanted to ask an AI version of your MP what vegetable they would be, or get some relationship advice from a virtual politician, today m...

08/08/2025

🚨 OUT NOW 🚨 Chris Skidmore on Labour's green record

⚡ Former Tory MP and ex-energy minister Chris Skidmore sits down with PoliticsHome to rate Labour's progress on net zero

🎧 Listen now: https://pod.fo/e/30cf9b

08/08/2025

Prime Minister Keir Starmer has said the Israeli government's decision to take control of Gaza is "wrong" and will only bring more "bloodshed"

Prime Minister Keir Starmer has said the Israeli government's decision to take control of Gaza is 'wrong' and will only bring more 'bloodshed'.

05/08/2025

🚆 “I’m not asking for a gold-plated train. I just want to get on and off”

Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson – 11-time Paralympic gold medallist turned crossbench peer – speaks to Women in Westminster about the realities of transport accessibility, ableism, assisted dying, and why her lifelong fight for equality is far from over.

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Former athlete Tanni, The Baroness Grey-Thompson, was famed for her grit and determination on the racetrack. Now she uses that same drive to fight ...

05/08/2025

Changes to Landfill Tax could cripple the quarrying industry – derailing the government’s housing, infrastructure and environmental goals.

✍️ Joseph Hackett, Mineral Products Association, says the Treasury must go back to the drawing board.

While ministers champion planning reform and infrastructure investment, changes to Landfill Tax could cripple the quarrying industry, inflate const...

04/08/2025

🎶 UK creative industry leaders said transparency around the use of copyrighted material is key to protecting jobs against an increase in AI-generated artwork

Leaders in the UK’s creative industries have told PoliticsHome that transparency around the use of copyrighted material is key to protecting jobs a...

04/08/2025

Reform UK said its new justice adviser's view – that there should be no blanket ban on trans women in women’s prisons – is not party policy

Reform UK has told PoliticsHome that the view of its new justice adviser, Vanessa Frake, that there should be no blanket ban on trans women in wome...

31/07/2025

Planning reforms could affect our community playing fields.

On his final day as CEO of Sport England, Tim Hollingssworth argues that ensuring their protection will improve our economy, help us lead active lives, and protect vital green spaces for children.

Planning reforms could affect our community playing fields. Ensuring their protection will improve our economy, help us lead active lives, and prot...

31/07/2025

Ahmed Moussa, General Manager of Sanofi UK and Ireland, reflects on the current landscape of type 1 diabetes in the UK and explores what must change to improve outcomes for patients.

Sanofi UK General Manager Ahmed Moussa reflects on the current landscape of type 1 diabetes in the UK and explores what must change to improve outc...