Politics

In a statement to the House of Commons, health secretary Sajid Javid championed the arrival of a modernised Mental Health Act which will bring legislation “into the 21st Century”....

Poke Staff. Updated June 22nd, 2022 Very possibly we’ve written too much about rail union boss Mick Lynch but he keeps knocking it out of the park so we’ve...

New policing powers risk creating a hostile environment for peaceful protestors, the joint committee on human rights (JCHR) warns in a report published today following legislative scrutiny of the...

Celebrity Poke Staff. Updated June 10th, 2022 George Galloway has long complained about being described as ‘Russia state-affiliated media’ on Twitter. The former MP, whose radio programme The Mother...

The opposition day debate topic on Tuesday was on the proposed changes to the ministerial code by the prime minister. Deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner shared her concerns for...

Oonagh Keating. Updated June 1st, 2022 Although we don’t currently know how many MPs have submitted letters of no confidence in Boris Johnson to the 1922 committee, almost 30...

The Conservative MP for  Bromley and Chislehurst, Bob Neill has become the fifth conservative MP to call on the prime minister to resign since the publication of the Gray...

The prime minister’s official spokesperson has said No 10 officials initiated the meeting between the PM and Sue Gray last week. Earlier today chief secretary to the Treasury, Simon...

Poke Staff. Updated May 18th, 2022 Michael Fabricant – we know, we know – plunged new depths today with a tweet about the Tory MP accused of rape ahead...

The Brexit opportunities and efficiency minister has said that axing 91,000 civil servants is “perfectly reasonable”. Jacob Rees-Mogg, the MP for North Somerset, told Sky News that Whitehall had...