The whips’ office, not unlike the country, can pivot to moments of great pageantry at the flick of a ceremonial white stave.

The most shocking betrayals in House of the Dragon ranked, and see which moves fans saw coming and which stunned everyone.

Ralph Lauren once declared Connolly his “favourite store in the world.” It is not hard to see why. Or smell why, for that ...

Campaigners clambered over barriers during a tour of Parliament before revealing a banner that said: 'Replace the Lords.' ...

Sharron – or Lady Davis now – was never anti-trans, she was simply pro-women’s rights. And I for one salute her courage, her determination and her passion for going to the wire for a cause she ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Labour MP who introduced the UK assisted dying bill has criticised the “very slow” progress of the ...

It was more than a year ago that MPs first gave their backing to proposed legislation which would introduce assisted dying in England and Wales, in an historic House of Commons vote. In its current ...

There must be some irony, if not perhaps a hint of spite, in the fact that the House of Lords is causing the government some legislative difficulty just as the very last of the hereditary peers are ...

LONDON — When a job for life beckons, principles have a way of disappearing. Keir Starmer has given 25 close allies an early Christmas present, appointing them to Britain’s unelected House of Lords.

For many, the repeated image of the friends, allies and favoured former colleagues of the nation's leaders being routinely stuffed into the upper chamber of parliament is an unsavoury one at the best ...

In his latest batch of appointments to the Lords, Sir Keir announced a fresh list of 25 Labour peerages as he gave jobs for life to cronies and ex-advisers. There were also five nominations for ...