Members of the House of Lords begin their detailed examination of the Non-Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) Bill, in committee stage on Monday 24 February.

The UK Parliament has two Houses that work on behalf of UK citizens to check and challenge the work of Government, make and shape effective laws, and debate/make decisions on the big issues of the day ...

Relations between the American colonists and the British government came to a head after the British success against France in the Seven Years War of 1756-63. It was an expensive war and the French ...

The Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill was introduced in the House of Commons on 30 January 2025. Second reading, ...

Within a year of Great Britain declaring war on Germany in August 1914, it had become obvious that it was not possible to continue fighting by relying on voluntary recruits. Lord Kitchener's campaign ...

Before 1918 no women were allowed to vote in parliamentary elections. In the early 20th century there were two main groups active in the campaign for women's suffrage, a term used to describe the ...

From the late 18th century children formed a rising proportion of the population almost two out of five people by the mid-1820s. It was common for them to work to supplement family incomes. Orphans ...

William Pitt the Younger was a reforming prime minister who was determined to do what he could to rationalise the British system of taxation. He was a keen devotee of the great economic thinker of the ...

Although a bill, draft measure or statutory instrument may become law on a particular day, it may not have legal effect until sometime later. In these cases, the law does not operate in practice until ...

A money bill is a bill that in the opinion of the House of Commons Speaker is concerned only with national taxation, public money or loans. A bill that is certified as a money bill and which has been ...

The average age at which women have children has been increasing since the middle of the 1970s. There is a tendency to think of this as a modern phenomenon associated with the rise of family planning, ...

Magna Carta is Latin for ‘great charter' and the term was first used in 1217 to distinguish it from the Charter of the Forest, a document that also set out limits on the king's administration, this ...