For backbench MPs, rebellion is the gateway drug to more rebellion. Having broken the psychological barrier of voting against th ...

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Sir Keir Starmer has suspended four Labour MPs as he seeks to reassert his authority after a series of damaging backbench rebellions. Rachael Maskell, one of Sir Keir’s fiercest opponents in the ...

Mitya Pearson receives funding from the Leverhulme Trust. As far as the UK government is concerned, its backbenchers are “the most important Members in the House [of Commons]”. This simple insight, ...

A photograph by Yuri Zhitlukhin I came across while searching for images of Soviet classrooms of the post-Bolshevik Revolution period shows a teacher playing the flute to her students in a ...

Michelle Grattan does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Angela Rayner could face a backbench rebellion from Labour MPs over the party's drive to build 1.5 million homes in England by 2029. The Deputy Prime Minister and Housing Secretary is fronting the ...