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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...

Labour’s plan to slap VAT on independent school fees would hurt (indeed destroy) many schools and harm many pupils—in an attempt to raise money for extra public...

In March, a superb portrait of Arthur Balfour by the famous portrait painter, Philip de Laszlo, in Trinity College, Cambridge was seriously damaged by vandals...

1910 was a year of two general elections, the first in January and the second in December. At both elections the Liberal Party was led by Herbert Asquith, who...

December last year brought the centenary of a General Election which had a double significance: it put an end to Stanley Baldwin’s short-lived first Government...

Between 1967 and 2000 - when homosexuality was no longer a criminal offence in civilian life - some 20,000 gay people were thrown out of the Armed Forces...