Who is the Speaker of the House of Commons? Lindsay Hoyle MP has been Speaker since November 2019. He previously served as a Labour MP. The modern Speaker is politically impartial and expected to ...

In Britain, the Northern Ireland Troubles Bill has passed all stages in the House of Commons. The final vote approved the ...

The government has published hundreds of amendments, including that the attorney general must provide consent for any serious prosecutions related to the conflict.

What are divisions, and when do they take place? Each item of business that MPs consider in the Commons – be they motions or pieces of legislation – is framed in terms of a question. At the end of a ...

She arrived promising to drag Parliament into the modern age. A year in, Lucy Powell tells Noah Vickers she wants to widen participation and ditch arcane language “You are going into a bear pit. Yes, ...

When we think about the House of Commons, politicians, partisanship and heckling most often come to mind. But there are those who work in the shadows of power, specialized workers who have refined ...

New House of Commons librarian Grant Hill-Cawthorne is the youngest appointed to the role in 200 years. He tells Tali Fraser his vision for the Library’s future, its place in the Palace’s Restoration ...

The debate on the early release of prisoners which calls on the government to exempt from automatic early release any offender who has been convicted of a sexual offence against an adult or a child.