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Jeffrey Donaldson exiting a vehicle

Ex-DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson accused of 2016 rape inside Westminster

Dame Esther Rantzen

Esther Rantzen laid to rest as family share final message from late broadcaster

Joe McVey

Troubles Bill needs to ‘put focus on building confidence’ among victims

Pat McFadden in Downing Street

Fact check: Employment rate and Labour’s asylum hotels record

A Scottish independence march

SNP to launch ‘biggest independence campaign’ since 2014 referendum

Green Party leader Zack Polanski

Polanski insists he will carry on as Green leader despite by-election defeat

Housing protests erupt in Barcelona as Spain calls early election, in photos

Spain approves new urgent housing measures after night of unrest in Barcelona

Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg

Court backlogs will still fall despite jury trials U-turn, Alex Norris says

Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg

Court backlogs will still fall despite jury trials U-turn, Alex Norris says

That's Life

In Pictures: Esther Rantzen, the formidable campaigner for young and old

State pension triple lock

Pension triple lock: How does it work and what does Andy Burnham plan to change?

Councillors join Shrewsbury MP Julia Buckley at Westminster.

Shropshire councillors get insight into workings of Parliament

Campaigners in favour of the bill react after hearing the result of the vote on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

Fall of assisted dying Bill ‘heartbreaking’ for some but welcomed by opponents

Campaigners during a protest for and against assisted dying outside Parliament

MPs reject attempt to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales

Palace of Westminster

MPs urged to ‘grasp opportunity’ as assisted dying Bill back in Parliament

Assisted dying bill campaigners

MPs to vote again on assisted dying as Bill returns to Parliament

Middle East conflict

Motorists ‘having to dig deeper’ as wholesale oil prices rise – RAC
Average price of a litre of petrol has risen by 5p in the last week alone.
Jack Evans, PA Motoring Reporter

Andrew Bailey at a press conference

Bank has no ‘secret plan’ for unconditional interest rate hikes, says Bailey

Creative industries protest

Protesters tell Gordon Lyons arts sector ‘not being heard’ at Stormont

Governor of the Bank of England Andrew Bailey

Central banks face ‘serious challenge’ from populism, says Bank of England boss

Hand on a patient's hand on hospital bed

Third of public back assisted dying law only with more palliative funding – poll

Nigel Farage at a Reform UK press conference

Two Reform UK officials step down after allegations of donation rules breach

Lauren Edwards

Assisted dying Bill MP ‘confident’ Commons will vote yes despite PM abstaining

Nigel Farage

Farage to address Reform conference as party reported to police over funding

Close-up of woman's hands typing on smartphone

Be careful what you post on social media, MP warns, after tweet apology

Green Party leader Zack Polanski

Zack Polanski says he intends to stand in by-election to replace Keir Starmer

Just Stop Oil protest at Westminster

Just Stop Oil protest outside Parliament during Burnham’s first PMQs

The main entrance to HM Prison Norwich

Early prison release needed to keep public confidence – Justice Secretary
Alex Norris set out plans to free up capacity in the UK’s overcrowded male prison estate to MPs as Parliament returned for its autumn term.
Will Meakin-Durrant, Abbie Llewelyn, and David Lynch, Press Association Political Staff

Sir Keir Starmer

Sir Keir Starmer to step down as MP to focus on overseas affairs

Defence Investment Plan row

Andy Burnham should be given Guinness World Record for U-turns, SNP says

Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch delivers a speech

Kemi Badenoch sacks senior Tories in major shake-up of her front bench team

Thames Valley Police Chief, Constable Jason Hogg, makes a speech during an memorial event at Reading Town Hall ahead of an unveiling of a specially commissioned memorial stone in Reading, dedicated to the memory of Police Constable Andrew Harper of Thames Valley Police

Tagging early release prisoners will add to police forces’ burden, chief warns

John Swinney

John Swinney vows to bring ‘radical change’ to Scotland’s public services

Pc Andrew Harper

Grooming gang members and killers including Pc Harper’s to be kept behind bars

Prime Minister Andy Burnham

No early release for Pc Harper’s killers after release scheme change

Prime Minister Andy Burnham speaks to journalists

Prime Minister Andy Burnham to abstain in assisted dying vote next month

Andy Burnham laughing

Burnham: I will take ‘Hillsborough approach’ to dealing with Troubles legacy

Green North Herefordshire MP Ellie Chowns (PA)

Column by North Herefordshire MP Ellie Chowns

Pc Andrew Harper

Pc Harper’s killers to be excluded from early release scheme – reports

London City Views

Photograph of Disraeli and Wilberforce engraving among ‘missing’ Parliament art

Andy Burnham

Burnham to report to Parliament on early release scheme in two weeks

Housing Secretary Angela Rayner

Angela Rayner insists Government sticking to plans to build 1.5 million homes

Matthew Pennycook leaving number 10 Downing Street

Drive to build 1.5m homes has slowed because of Iran war, minister claims

Nigel Farage at a Reform UK press conference in London

Farage hopes to return to Parliament as Clacton votes on his future

Pc Andrew Harper

Government to announce early release exemptions for Pc Harper’s killers in Septe...

Jess Phillips at a gathering

Jess Phillips: Government minister role felt like being in a ‘straitjacket’

David Olusoga looks through a reference book

‘Remarkable’ story of Peterloo Massacre survivor uncovered after 200 years

Joe McVey meeting with NIO minister Sarah Owens and Secretary of State Sir Chris Bryant

Bryant pressed to deliver ‘fair and balanced’ legacy legislation

MSP Katy Clark walks into the Scottish Parliament

MSP Clark rules herself out of Scottish Labour contest as nominations open

A man walking into a polling station

Vote counting to begin in Greater Manchester mayoral by-election

A person holding a sign saying campaign for dignity in dying

Assisted dying Bill MP says new law and better end-of-life care both possible

Prime Minister Andy Burnham delivers a speech during a visit to a care home in north London

Palliative and social care needs fixing before assisted dying debate, PM says

Andy Burnham

Andy Burnham sets out desire to fix social care crisis

Andy Burnham

‘PM must legislate for national care service if he’s serious about social care’

Supporters of the Cockroach Janta Party attempt to march to India’s Parliament

Police fire tear gas at India’s Cockroach movement supporters

Iris Duane clapping and smiling while in an audience

Being transgender is not the most interesting thing about me, says Green MSP

Patrick Spencer court case

MP Patrick Spencer found not guilty of Groucho Club sexual assaults

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