As we await the release of the National Cancer Plan, Liver Cancer Awareness Month is a stark reminder of the urgent need to ...

Last week I attended the UK government’s first ever regional investment summit in Birmingham. Led by West Midlands mayor ...

Last week, the Home Office published its annual statistics detailing the number of scientific experiments involving animals ...

What is the congestion charge? The congestion charge is a daily levy imposed on drivers choosing to drive within central London. Since 2022, it has applied between 07:00 and 18:00 on Monday to Friday, ...

When a government spends more than it collects, it runs an annual budget deficit. This is formally known as the Public Sector Net Cash Requirement. The accumulation of previous annual budget deficits, ...

Public libraries in the UK are collections of books and other informational resources maintained by local authorities for the benefit of the public. Dating back over 150 years, many of the services ...

Prostitution describes the offering and provision of sexual services for financial gain. In the UK, with the exception of Northern Ireland (where buying sex is illegal), the law around prostitution is ...

In terms of economic policy, the Conservative Party is economically liberal, generally favouring the free market and opposing government controls. Positioning itself as the party of small business, ...

What is the law on cannabis in the UK? Cannabis remains illegal to possess, distribute, sell or grow in the UK. Cannabis is classified as a class B drug. As such, any person who is caught with ...

Print media in the UK are not subject to any specific statutory controls on their content and activities, other than the general criminal and civil law. In this regard, newspapers and magazines, are ...

“Right to Buy” is a scheme under which longstanding local authority tenants are entitled to purchase their homes at a heavily discounted price. To be eligible to participate in a ‘right to buy’ scheme ...

Are the British police armed? The British police are famed across the world for being ‘unarmed’ – but this is a misnomer. A proportion of the UK police are ...