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On 29 January, the Lords debated a Government Bill which will remove the rates relief that independent schools with charitable status have always enjoyed...

Operation Midland was one of the most disastrous investigations in the history of the Metropolitan Police. Between 2014 and 2016, police officers mercilessly...

On 18 December 1834, Sir Robert Peel, the first leader of the modern Conservative Party, wrote as follows to the electors of his Tamworth constituency in...

Writing in The Sunday Telegraph on 13 October, Robert Jenrick included three historical points. Two of them were wrong. He said that that the Party “has just...

This piece of business—so very important for Heath’s reputation at the bar of history—could have been completed years ago if Home Office Ministers in the last...

As is customary, the Lords allocated several days to its debate on the Gracious Speech delivered by the King on 17 July. Alistair Lexden made his contribution...

In a statement on 10 June, David Cameron urged the five million British people living abroad to use the votes, which all of them now have for the first time...

Despite having done no serious calculations, Labour claim that their VAT levy on independent school fees would raise £1.6 billion for state schools. Experts on...

The question is already being asked, and is likely to be heard more frequently as this six-week campaign progresses. Fifty years ago in 1974 a general election...