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Martin Reid (left) played 'Uncle Andy' and Tim McGarry played 'Da' in Give My Head Peace, which has now been axed due to cutbacks.

MP tables motion against BBC cutting 'Give My Head Peace'

Campaigners during a protest for and against assisted dying outside Parliament

MPs reject attempt to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales

Parliament’s expenses watchdog has opened an investigation into Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) MP Gregory Campbell.

DUP MP Gregory Campbell faces probe by Parliament’s expenses watchdog

Undated handout photo issued by CVS of the Commissioner for Victims and Survivors in Northern Ireland Joe McVey (centre), meeting with NIO minister Sarah Owen (left) and Secretary of States for Northern Ireland Sir Chris Bryant (right)

Bryant pressed to deliver ‘fair and balanced’ legacy legislation

Price Bailey have released their new report

Ad Feature British businesses trust Parliament more than MPs do

Morning View

Hillsborough Law laudable but it is ill thought-out

Four terminally ill women stand on plinths in Parliament Square, London, forming a public installation calling on MPs to act on their democratic mandate and bring back the Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults Bill in the next Parliament. Picture date: Wednesday April 22, 2026.

Euthanasia bill returns to House of Commons

Tanaiste Simon Harris (left) and Public Expenditure Minister Jack Chambers during a media doorstep as he arrives at the National Economic Dialogue at Dublin Castle.

‘No one political parties owns conversation on Irish unity’ – Harris

The Chagos islands

Lord Weir launches Bill over the future of the Chagos Islands

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer

Starmer insists he will ‘keep pushing forward’ as he defends record in office

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaks to small business owners during a visit to Home Cafe and Kitchen in Kensal Rise, north west London, as new figures have shown the UK recorded stronger than expected economic growth. Picture date: Monday May 18, 2026. PA Photo. Photo credit should read: Yui Mok/PA Wire

No timetable for me to quit as PM, says Starmer

Letters to editor

Letter: One narrative is influencing legacy and that should concern us

(left-right) Keith Buchanan, DUP leader Gavin Robinson and Trevor Clarke speak to the media in the Great Hall at Parliament Buildings, Stormont, Belfast, after a car explosion outside a police station on Sunday.

Government has lost confidence of Troubles victims and veterans – Robinson

Letters to editor

Letter: Writing is on the wall for isolated Starmer

Kim Leadbeater MP joins campaigners in Parliament Square, London, as four terminally ill women stand on plinths to call on MPs to act on their democratic mandate and bring back the Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults Bill in the next Parliament. Picture date: Wednesday April 22, 2026.

Lockhart welcomes end of the road for UK's assisted dying bill

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaking during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons, London. Picture date: Wednesday April 22, 2026. PA Photo.

Starmer: Mandelson allegations put to bed by Olly Robbins
Sir Keir Starmer has said the evidence of a sacked senior civil servant around Lord Peter Mandelson's appointment as US ambassador “puts to bed all the allegations levelled at me” after claims that he misled Parliament.
By David Lynch, David Hughes, Harry Taylor, Rhiannon James, and Helen Corbett, Press Association Political Staff

Screen grab of Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer following his statement in the House of Commons, London, on security vetting. Picture date: Monday April 20, 2026. PA Photo.

Starmer: Staggering I was not told Mandelson failed vetting check

The House of Lords have voted to approve the details of the Crime and Policing Bill that will decriminalise abortion up to birth

Letter: Public wasn’t consulted on abortion ‘up to birth’

Caoimhe Archibald is leading the scheme to parcel out the £81m, which will reportedly begin in July

Payments of £30 to help with electricity bills 'should start from July'

Jim Shannon speaking about China in the Westminster Hall debate

Belfast Chinese consulate official 'brainwashed' says DUP MP

Hereditary peers who have not been made life peers will no longer have a right to sit in the Lords once the current parliamentary session ends, expected later this spring.

Hereditary peers to leave red benches before next King’s Speech

Peers in the House of Lords have tabled a huge number of amendments to the assisted dying bill

Letter: Parliament must now drop assisted suicide bill

A new blue plaque commemorating one of Ulster’s most influential radical figures, William Sharman Crawford (1780–1861), will be unveiled near his ancestral home in Crawfordsburn today (Thursday)

Ulster radical and tenant rights pioneer honoured with Blue Plaque

Lord Peter Mandelson outside his home in north west London on Saturday.

Lord Peter Mandelson arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office

St Paul's Harmony

Ad Feature St Paul’s Cathedral hosts harmony event

DUP leader Gavin Robinson. Photo: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Windsor Framework is 'one of the biggest impediments' to UK economic ties

Raymond McCord's son, Raymond McCord junior, was killed by loyalist paramilitaries in 1997

Raymond McCord urges UK to scrap legacy bill that’s now more ‘against victims’
A victims' campaigner has said the Labour government's reforms of the Legacy Act have made it "stronger against victims".
Claudia Savage

All 29 personnel on board RAF Chinook ZD576 were killed when the aircraft crashed while flying from RAF Aldergrove to Fort George in 1994

Now we expect answers, says son of soldier killed in 1984 Chinook crash

The tomb of Northern Ireland's first Prime Minister, Lord Craigavon, has been left to decay, an MLA has said.

Prime Minister's tomb 'left to weather, erode and decay' by Stormont - MLA

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves poses outside 11 Downing Street, London, with her ministerial red box, before delivering her Budget in the House of Commons. Picture date: Wednesday November 26, 2025. PA Photo. Photo credit should read: Frank Augstein/PA Wire

Two-child limit scrapped at cost of £3bn to cut child poverty by 450,000

'The Street Preacher's Charter' sets out the rules and responsibilities for open-air evangelism

‘Street preacher’s charter’ launched

A general view of the Houses of Parliament,

Jamie Bryson: Legacy Bill is a nationalist and Irish government wish-list

Carla Lockhart MP.

DUP motion calls on government to scrap Digital ID

Professor Seth Barrett Tillman

'A U.K. Dialogue on Migration' (Parody, 2025)

Parliament is sovereign we were told when unionist rights were at risk, such was when Ben Habib and others said that the Windsor Framework was in conflict with the Acts of Union

Letter: Parliament can do what it wants if unionist rights at risk

Reform UK's deputy leader Richard Tice, seen during a recent visit to Glasgow, said that parliament has already made changes to the Good Friday Agreement (Picture: John Devlin)

Reform UK would quit ECHR without Irish nationalist consent, says Richard Tice

TUV MP Jim Allister.

Urgent action needed to save unionism after Murphy Review 'whitewash'

SDLP leader Claire Hanna MP said 'ever growing numbers of people across these islands have shown their horror and anguish' at events in Gaza. Photo: PA

SDLP-led letter calling for sanctions on Israel is ‘virtue signalling’

Upper Bann MP Carla Lockhart seized an opportunity in Parliament on Tuesday to speak powerfully on behalf of the people and businesses of Northern Ireland, laying bare the daily impact of the post-Brexit Protocol and Windsor Framework

‘Economic noose’: DUP MP slams Windsor Framework in fiery Commons speech

Sammy Wilson criticising the Labour government in Parliament's Westminster Hall

Labour 'cloth-eared' on sea border says DUP MP: 'We must hope for Reform'

An estimated 28.6 billion cigarettes are smoked in Britain each year, the equivalent of 78 million a day, according to new analysis.

28.6 billion cigarettes smoked in Britain each year

A tribute to David Trimble was unveiled at the Houses of Parliament earlier this week.

'Few politicians will leave behind the legacy of the late Lord Trimble'

Morning View

Editorial: Parliament’s fitting tribute to a political giant

Lord Speaker, Lord McFall of Alcluith (right) conducted the ceremony

Westminster statue an 'appropriate tribute' to the legacy of Lord David Trimble

Tory MP Andrew Rosindell, second from right front row, with TUV MP Jim Allister to his right, and UUP Peer Lord Elliott to his left, and Jonathan Ganesh of the Dockland Victims Association standing behind Mr Rosindell, in Westminster on Tuesday along with victims of IRA bomb attacks across the UK

Andrew Rosindell MP: For decades, victims of Libyan-IRA terror have been ignored

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves (right) crying as Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaks during Prime Minister's Questions. Photo: House of Commons/UK Parliament/PA Wire

Chancellor Rachel Reeves in tears after government's welfare reform ‘shambles’

Britain is facing a swimming crisis - 9m adults don’t know how to swim

Demonstrations have taken place across the country over proposed changes to existing abortion laws

Letter: None of us have the right to decide when to terminate life

The 1967 Abortion Act currently permits terminations up to 24 weeks, with some exceptions

Letter: Only the wicked could deliver an abortion vote like this

Alliance MP Sorcha Eastwood has been offered a "private ambulance" to take her "door to door" ahead of a key vote on assisted dying. File photo of a London Air Ambulance. Photo: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

Sorcha Eastwood offered 'private ambulance' for knife-edge Assisted Dying vote

UUP Cllr Mark Ovens

Sinn Fein silencing of Ulster Unionist councillor raised in Parliament

Lord Forsyth of Drumlean argued the UK is "paying the price" of quantitative easing and it has played a part in the country's current "vulnerable" position.

Public ‘unaware of public finance crisis’ - former minister

The Labour MP proposing the law, Kim Leadbeater, was speaking as two months of hearings on the bill by a scrutiny committee came to a close.

Unionists welcome four year delay to assisted dying bill

TUV leader Jim Allister MP

Windsor Framework trade divergence debated in Parliament

A delegation of around 50 people from the UFU attended the pancake day protest against inheritance tax in London. (Photo: UFU Facebook)

Ulster Farmers' Union delegation in London for protest against inheritance tax

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