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Lawyers and MPs are backing campaigners in fight for a change in the law around joint enterprise, which they say is being interpreted too harshly, Holly Evans writes

It started a dreadful custom and yesterday Rishi Sunak played ninety minutes of near-pointless political ping-pong with the current liaison committees has-beens, kicking against the dying of the day

Huddersfield's Barry Sheerman explains how a man told him "he was coming to London to kill me".

Barry Sheerman told how is home ‘is now a fortress’ and he will ‘look behind me all the time’.

Huddersfield artist Booter Bee has been slammed by Labour MP Barry Sheerman over his lyrics that boast about the gangland knife murder of a schoolboy.

An education minister has faced calls to resign in the Commons over the Department for Education’s school funding error.Nick Gibb described the error as “unfortunate” but insisted “no money has been taken out of the school budget” as he ans...

Rishi Sunak is going through the motions, while Humza Yousaf speaks from the heart but to little avail

Staff writer Douglas Gibb discusses Diane Abbot’s controversial letter within the context of broader allegations of racism within the Labour Party. The offending letter On 15 April, Tomiwa Owolade wrote a piece in the Observer arguing that racism is “far more complicated” than colour (cf. colourism), pointing to data from Evidence for Equality National Survey […]

Meanwhile Labour's equalities spokesperson tells their annual conference a Starmer government will "finish the job" of tackling structural racism

Poll comes ahead of 'I Stand With Diane' protest as Labour gather for their annual conference in Liverpool