When policymakers focus on issues of the day there is excessive time spent on arguing for a pecking order that trades off children’s protection, participation and privacy online. In doing so, they can forget the purposes of pedagogy and learning in the digital environment. There is a DfE strategy on edTech but it’s all about...Read More

The DDA is calling for: Improved Rural Proofing Medicines optimisation services: Rural patients to have equitable access to medicines services that support health and best use of medicines, irrespective of their proximity to access to a community pharmacy Full funding for NHS IT: Full NHS funding to recognise the benefits to patients, the practice and...Read More

Debt Justice seek outline their desire for the government to effectively help those struggling with debt across the UK. Debt Justice is currently gathering the views of people who are experiencing the stress of debt, talking about the household debt issues that are impacting our communities most and prioritising which solutions they need to include...Read More

The First Minister of Wales has been described as 'more post office than box office', but nevertheless won a convincing victory in the 2021 elections. A clarinet player, he says he would be a cricket groundsman, if living again.Read More

As a student activist, the former Labour Chancellor Alistair Darling, was said to have handed out Marxist leaflets. In 2015, he joined the Board of the bank Morgan Stanley.Read More

An overview of the efforts to control dangerous dogs in the UK, alongside the level of dog attacks, past legislation, and proposals for further reform.Read More

Labour MP for Caerphilly. Wales Office Minister in the last Labour government. Labour spokesman on the Middle East. Former youth services worker, and trade unionist.Read More

Previously the first ever female Shadow Chancellor, Dodds is now Chair of the Labour Party. A native of Aberdeen, she has previously described the idea that there is some sort of separate Scottish race as 'a fiction' and 'very bizarre'.Read More

Labour MP for Slough. Worked in construction. Previously the Mayor of Gravesham in Kent. Previously PPS to Jeremy Corbyn. Britain's first turbaned Sikh MP. Read More

Labour MP for Bristol West. Shadow Leader of the House of Commons. Previously worked for domestic violence charities. Recovered from breast cancer in 2016. Vegan. Cellist.Read More

Sarah Dyke was elected as the Lib Dem MP for Somerton and Frome in a July 2023 by-election. She was elected to Somerset Council in 2022. Ran a business selling second hand goods. Owns a number of sheep.Read More

A former national schools triple jump champion, Iain Duncan Smith is the only Conservative Party leader since the war, never to have contested a General Election. He later oversaw the introduction of Universal Credit.Read More

Ahsley Dalton was elected as the Labour MP for Lancashire West in a February 2023 by-election. A member of Unison, she previously worked for Southend Borough Council.Read More

Samantha Dixon is the Labour MP for Chester, having been elected in a 2022 by-election. She is the former leader of Cheshire West and Chester Council , and enjoys knitting and reading.Read More

Ruth Davidson was formerly the long standing leader of the Scottish Consrevative Party. She oversaw a growth of Conservative support and representation in Scotland. She now sits in the House of Lords.Read More

The Democratic Unionist Party is now the leading unionist party, and the largest party in the Northern Ireland Assembly. The DUP was founded in 1971 by the Reverend Ian Paisley, a preacher at the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster. It is currently led by Jeffrey Donaldson.Read More

Demos is a cross-party think tank based in the heart of Westminster. For nearly thirty years we have been a pioneer of ideas, bringing together citizens, experts and political leaders to generate positive change. Working on a cross-party basis, we conduct research, design and advocate for policy solutions, and host inspiring and insightful events.Read More

We exist to abolish unjust debt and its root causes. Through courageous campaigning, we build collective power with the people most affected – whether by personal debt in the UK or public debt in exploited countries – so together we can rewrite the rules of global finance and build a fair economy for all.Read More

The current Liberal Democrat leader, is said to have been put off Conservative Politics 'for life' after attending a Young Conservatives disco in his youth. A childhood carer, both Davey's parents died before he was 16.Read More