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A Green Party MP has criticised the government's indefinite puberty blocker ban as “discriminatory”.

India Woodward

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has sent its final recommendations to the government on the restriction proposals for lead ammunition in England, Scotland and Wales. This is the culmination of a consultation launched in 2022, which has run alongside the voluntary transition away from lead first proposed by nine leading rural organisations, including BASC, in 2020.

The Government's Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill, which was announced in the 2024 King's Speech, will receive its First Reading in Parliament today. Humanists UK has welcomed proposals including a Children Not in School Register and legislation to close loopholes that enable the continued operation of illegal faith schools.

A senior Conservative has expressed concern about the state of the economy his party “might inherit” following a future general election. Andrew Griffith, the shadow business secretary, said he is “not surprised” that inflation has risen once again and pointed to data that suggests a slowdown in hiring activity. Inflation climbed to an annual rate... Read more »

This was another session of prime minister’s questions that Kemi Badenoch should have won — and won by some distance. The announcement yesterday that the government will not be compensating Waspi women affected by pension changes created a clear opportunity for the Conservative leader to go after Keir Starmer on the grounds of honesty, transparency... Read more »

The hidden impact of domestic abuse on healthcare professionals has been revealed by the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund (RMBF), in the latest edition of the Medical Defence Union (MDU) journal

Humanists UK has raised concerns over potentially unintended consequences of measures in the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill that would, if not amended, pave the way for a new generation of 100% religiously selective schools for the first time since 2011. The Bill does not refer to faith school admissions at all and nothing in what the Government has published has referred to this effect, but the measures are tucked away in the later clauses.

Keir Starmer has nominated a raft of new Labour peers. Partygate investigator and the prime minister’s former chief of staff, Sue Gray, is among the Labour figures set to be elevated to the House of Lords. Luciana Berger, the former MP for Liverpool Wavertree who resigned from Labour in protest at Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership in... Read more »

Kemi Badenoch has appointed a set of political allies to the House of Lords, including former deputy prime minister Thérèse Coffey.