Many local authorities already run DBS checks on elected officials but it's not standard practice in parliament.

A former detective who uncovered police failings in investigating grooming gangs has said Sir Keir Starmer is “perhaps as guilty as anyone” over the failure to bring about change.

Some 262 of 296 surveyed candidates who lost - around nine in ten - are leaning towards having another crack at the Commons ...

New polling has suggested that Reform UK could win four council seats in Northumberland when the county goes to the polls ...

Zoe Hughes from Exeter says ‘we have let the LGBT+ community down’ ...

Lee Anderson has railed against "professional protestors" who demonstrated outside Reform UK's Leicester conference. The ...

What a time to be a socialist! Particularly of the cork-popping kind. Picture them in their artillery emplacements, ...

The world's richest person has again waded into UK politics with controversial posts about child abuse by gangs.

There are many contrasts between Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour and Donald Trump’s Republicans. But the differences between the ...

A split in Spain's left-wing coalition government over a plan to implement a shorter working week with the same pay broke ...

Fast-fashion online retailer Shein, which is hoping to list in London, faces a UK hearing on Jan. 7 where a British ...