Vaccinations were first trialled in 1796 by Edward Jenner, a rural country doctor in Berkeley, in my constituency. He ...

After Angela Rayner’s resignation last week, the sweeping cabinet reshuffle that followed, and the blundering defenestration ...

Labour’s Employment Rights Bill is set to fundamentally improve work for the millions of workers stuck on exploitative short ...

When we talk about the great health challenges facing the UK, cancer and heart disease rightly come to mind. But too often we ...

Lord Mandelson may no longer be US ambassador, but Starmer still has many questions he must answer about this debacle.

Reform UK contends fracking would fix Britain’s energy crisis. But here’s the truth: it wouldn’t cut your bills, it wouldn’t ...

The Terminally Ill Adults Bill has its second reading in the House of Lords today. I was devastated when it was passed by the House of Commons earlier this year. I’m not ashamed to say that my ...

The opinions in Politics.co.uk's Comment section are those of the author. When he stepped through the door for the first time as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Wes Streeting knew to ...

Jonathan Lis is deputy director of the pro-EU think tank British Influence and a political writer and commentator.

What is lobbying in politics? Lobbying is a catch-all term to describe ‘special interest’ groups and their tactics to gain influence in the political process, particularly around the shaping of ...

The opinions in Politics.co.uk's Comment section are those of the author. The most successful tend to follow a similar format: two hosts, notionally on different sides of the political divide, but ...

The opinions in Politics.co.uk's Comment section are those of the author. Jeremy Hunt has said the government’s insistence that the previous Conservative administration left behind a £22 billion ...