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The government’s decision to block a law making it easier for people to change their gender risks widening the rift over the future of the United Kingdom.

The government’s decision to block a law making it easier for people to change their gender risks widening the rift over the future of the UK

Twenty eight Conservative MPs have so far broken cover to urge the PM to step down over Partygate.

THIS has been a week very much focused on domestic abuse and violence against women and girls, writes MP Caroline Nokes.

If a week is a long time in politics this week has seemed it in particular. We all waited in huge anticipation for PMQs on Wednesday and to discover…

Having had to update last week’s letter at the last minute I have left it until the last possible moment to write this one. It seems very much as…

Whilst this week may have all been about face coverings, lateral flow tests and Covid passes for large events, it has also been about local people…

Well, this has been something of a week. For the record I was not invited to any party in Downing Street last Christmas, if I had been I would not…

New appointments in the civil service, UK politics, and public affairs, via our colleagues at Dods People

Boris Johnson. (Charles McQuillan/Getty Images) The trans community is “exhausted” by repeated consultations on trans rights while women are being “silenced” on the issue of the Gender Recognition Act, a group of politicians has heard. In what will be the first of several evidence sessions, the Women and Equalities Select Committee heard on Wednesday (9 December) from six academics about the Gender Recognition Act (GRA). This forms part of the committee’s Gender Recognition Act inquir...