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"The report makes recommendations around parliamentary oversight of the Church of England"

MPs, peers call for overhaul of place of religion in Parliament

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Proroguing parliament? Johnson plan only limits time MPs have to stop no-deal

Prorogue: The government takes its shot

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Showdown: Ignoring amendments could trigger constitutional clash between parliament and government

Raab’s threats to ignore Grieve amendment threaten constitutional crisis

Ignoring amendments on Brexit would mean detaching the government from parliament

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"Democracy isn't about one-day of voting"

There’s another way of doing Brexit

The government should start listening to voters’ voices in the Brexit process

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"MPs must stand up for democracy and vote for parliament to have the strongest possible final say on the deal"

The biggest week yet in Brexit politics

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"The responses to the various sexual harassment and abuse scandals from the parties are changing daily."

Parties must do more to support the volunteers entrusted to investigate harassment complaints

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"One of the questions for politics now will be how much of the harassment of women was known about"

This isn’t a witch hunt – it’s a rebalancing of power between men and women

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"It is unfair, unjustified, and unpopular that we remain the only democratic sovereign state to have religious leaders sit as of right in our Parliament."

Lords reform proposals strengthen place of bishops in Parliament

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"A state has a constitution, whether it is written or unwritten"

Why the UK needs a written constitution

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"The election of Thatcher in 1979 did not, as might have been expected, trigger any large-scale increase in female representation"

Race, class, gender: New figures reveal reality of parliament

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"Watch PMQs and you'll see party leaders throwing figures about the NHS, schools and policing at each other like they're snowballs."

Spinning the numbers: How politicians pull the wool over your eyes

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"At a time when we should be seeing an upward trend when it comes to women MPs, a regression on 8th June would be shameful"

Election 2017: A big Conservative win could see fewer women in parliament

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"He was a master of the now-forgotten art of imprisoning government bills in Committee to secure concessions for their release through their remaining stages in the House of Commons."

Farewell, Public Order: A Musical Tribute to Gerald Kaufman 1930-2017

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"Parliament had to have the courts stand up for its right to even authorise the triggering of Article 50. Now that it has it, it does not seem ready to rock the boat."

Government easily defeats four Article 50 amendments

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"MPs want at least as much information on the Brexit process as MEPs."

MPs want to know as much about Brexit as MEPs

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"The impact of the reduction in MPs on parliament's role to hold the government to account must be put in the spotlight."

Cutting MP numbers will hand more power to unaccountable governments

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"This review is using an incomplete register from December 2015 – ignoring the more than two million people who have registered between then and June"

Five reasons the boundary review is deeply flawed

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Vote on child refugees last night

Mea culpa? Why pairing should have been mentioned more prominently in this piece

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Analysis by the Liberal Democrat whips’ office shows over 20 Labour MPs failed to vote against the government last night

Absent Labour MPs allowed government to block child refugee measure

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