It’s 2024, and we’re facing historic food bank need. More than 3.1 million emergency food parcels were provided by food banks in the Trussell Trust network to people facing hardship across the UK in the past 12 months – this is the most parcels the network has ever distributed in a single year. Urgent reform...Read More

An overview of teachers pay, covering current pay levels, how pay is set, how salaries compare, and the arguments variously made from different quarters around teachers pay.Read More

Conservative MP for Mid Dorset and North Poole. Solicitor General. Former barrister. Once played minor counties cricket for Herefordshire. Advocate for prison reform.Read More

An overview of trade unions, what they do, their history in the UK, the current legal framework, and the political debate surrounding how they operate.Read More

Conservative MP for Sevenoaks. Junior welfare minister. Former management consultant. Worked in Downing Street as Director of Strategic Communication under Cameron. During the 2019 Conservative leadership election suggested a Boris Johnson win would lead to an early election and a Corbyn government.Read More

Nick Thomas-Symonds is the Shadow International Trade Secteary. Little known by the public when Shadow Home Secretary, he is a former barrister, who has written a number of political biographies. He met his wife at school.Read More

Steve Tuckwell was elected as the Conservative MP for Uxbridge in a July 2023 by-election, succeeding Boris Johnson. Hillingdon Councillor. Former postman who became a manager at Royal Mail. Scout leader.Read More

An overview of the tuition fee system in the UK, covering current levels, the operation of the system, its history, potential alternatives, and the arguments made for and against the current regime. Read More

An overview of truancy covering the causes of truancy, the impact of school absences, the approach to term time holidays, and the political debate around truancy.Read More

The UK's 56th prime minister. Former Foreign Secretary. Having first joined the cabinet in 2014, by 2022 Liz Truss had already become the longest serving UK cabinet minister. Growing up in a left wing family and going on CND marches in her childhood, Truss was an active Liberal Democrat when at university.Read More

An overview of the term Tory. What is its historic orgins? Is it an insult?Read More

Think tanks are research and advocacy institutions that publish advice on a range of social, political and economic issues in hope of influencing policymakers and the power-holders of society. Here is an overview of the different 'policy wonks' across the political spectrum.Read More

Tactical voting is broadly defined as voting for a party that is not your first-preference. The average tactical voter is said to be engaged with politics, pragmatic, and highly educated. In the 2019 General Election, some 19% of voters said they planned to vote tactically.Read More

Conservative MP for Eddisbury. Former Solicitor General. Family law barrister. Son of John Timpson, of the Timpson shoe repair and key cutting chain. Multiple marathon runner.Read More

Conservative MP for Tonbridge & Malling. Minister for Security. Came 5th in the 2022 Conservative leadership election. Chair of the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee. Journalist, who later became a soldier serving on the front line in Afghanistan and Iraq. Son of a high court judge and nephew of an EU commissioner. Banned from China in 2021.Read More

Labour MP for East Ham. Former Minister in the last Labour government. Previously worked in telecommunications. Leader of Newham Council. Stabbed during a constituency surgery in 2010. Evangelical Christian on the Labour right. Member of Ramblers Association.Read More

Labour MP for Hemsworth. Former Shadow Cabinet Minister under Jeremy Corbyn. Once PPS to Gordon Brown. Former plumber, and leader of Leeds City Council. On the left of Labour, member of Socialist Campaign group of MPs.Read More

Labour MP for Harrow West. Minister in the last Labour government. Former teacher and Chair of the Co-operative Party. Arsenal Fan.Read More

Labour MP for Halton. Long standing junior Minister in the last Labour government. Former civil servant. Liverpool fan who was present at Hillsborough.Read More