Lord Peter Hain made his grim assessment ... Exposed wiring and pipes in the Palace of Westminster basement (Picture: Houses of Parliament Restoration and Renewal) The decision to vacate the ...

Jan 27 (Reuters) - Quaker groups sued on Monday to prevent U.S. immigration agents from carrying arrests and searches in houses of worship, after the Trump Administration rescinded guidance that ...

Construction workers completing restoration works on the roof at Old Parliament House uncovered an inscription late last year. They stopped work and went on a mission to track down the family of ...

A parliamentary official echoed this, describing parliament as “orders of magnitude more complicated” than Notre Dame. Richard Gilbey, a crossbench peer known as peer Lord Vaux ... Palace of ...

Anthony Koutoufides is running for federal parliament in the seat of ... months after getting his first taste of politics running for lord mayor. The enthusiasm he encountered on that failed ...

"Parliament is a unique place, it's like a village, why shouldn't we have a bar? It's the Houses of Parliament, not Ibiza," one woman, who has worked in Parliament for nearly three decades ...

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“So, the convention is that all bills that are not assented to law before the expiration of the life of parliament, expire. So that bill effectively is dead.” Our newsletter bridges borders to ...

David Lammy has been accused of misleading the House of Commons over the crumbling Chagos deal by a member of his own party. The government’s agreement to hand over the Chagos Islands ...

and the litigation high-profile, does not affect the issues that must be resolved.” Prince Harry and ex-Labour member of parliament Lord Tom Watson had reached a settlement with News Group Newspapers ...

In a landmark decision on Jan 27 2010, seven Supreme Court justices ruled that ministers acted unlawfully in imposing financial restrictions without a vote in Parliament. Lord Hope of Craighead ...

I’m the one who raises my voice in Parliament, but my brother is the one who ends up in jail," he said. I raise my voice in Parliament, instead brother ends up in jail "It is not illegal to ...