Lord Peter Hain made his grim assessment after it was revealed that 45 fires broke out throughout the building between 2014 and 2024. The peer, who served under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, said: ‘I ...

In the later nineteenth century, S.R. Gardiner called the English Parliament 'the noblest monument ever reared by mortal man'. More recently these ideas have been fundamentally challenged, and at the ...

Nobody set out to create Parliament. It developed naturally out of the daily political needs of the English King and his government. Nor did it develop continuously over time, but went through short ...