Failures across health and social care led to around 1.5 million emergency admissions to hospital that could have been avoided, MPs have said. Nearly a quarter of the urgent admissions
Read More
The Government is being urged to reform the social security system after a new study revealed that 1.5 million people are “destitute”. Research for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) found
Read More
A new law giving automatic pardons to gay men convicted under historical discriminatory legislation and enabling them to have any such convictions effectively scrubbed from criminal records has been passed
Read More
Home Secretary Sajid Javid will be grilled by MPs over whether members of the Windrush generation were unlawfully detained. Mr Javid is to appear before the human rights parliamentary committee
Read More
The UK’s highest court is set to rule on a challenge over the legality of Northern Ireland’s strict abortion law. Seven Supreme Court justices in London will announce their decision
Read More
A high-profile Democratic Unionist and former Stormont health minister has compared the abortion regime in Great Britain to the Holocaust. Jim Wells (pictured0 claimed the numbers murdered by the Nazis
Read More
Sajid Javid has pledged to bring a “fresh set of eyes” to the immigration system, as he spoke of his shock at hearing the ordeals suffered by victims of the
Read More
Jeremy Corbyn has hit out at the DUP after it insisted Westminster should not meddle with Northern Ireland’s strict abortion regime. As the Commons was holding an emergency debate on
Read More
Ministers have been urged to stump up more cash to help victims of child abuse rebuild their lives. Labour MP Sarah Champion, who has campaigned for victims of abuse in
Read More
Repealing a 150-year-old law that criminalises abortion could eliminate certain safeguards and allow “abortion on demand throughout pregnancy”, MPs have heard. Tory and DUP MPs stood to oppose the proposal
Read More