It should not be the responsibility of a mother to protect her child from a sex offending father, it should be the law’s. Thanks to Alex Chalk KC MP Laura Farris MP Maria_Miller Caroline Nokes MP Sanchia Berg this big step forward for child safety will now become law.

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NEW: Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary Claire Coutinho talks to Sienna Rodgers about her journey from banking to politics – and why those who speculate about her potential as a future chancellor may ‘need pills’ 👇
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🚨 OUT NOW 🚨 Liz Truss interview: She'd do it again

👀 Former Prime Minister Liz Truss joins Alain Tolhurst to discuss her new book, Ten Years to Save the West, and reflect on her tumultuous 49 days in Downing Street

🎧 Listen now: pod.fo/e/2325a8

📣 Keir Starmer’s right-hand woman Sue Gray caused a stir with her public support of citizens’ assemblies.

Sophie Church and Sienna Rodgers explore why a Labour government might champion deliberative democracy

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cherish this era, soak up every single minute, because it won’t be here forever

NEW: Interview with independent mayor Jamie Driscoll

🗳️ Predicts win on 2 May
🥀 Says Labour members are breaking rules to support him
🐝 Burnham wd make “excellent PM”
🪧Policies – salary sacrifice for public transport, land value capture & more

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⚕️ WHO's EU director, Dr Hans Kluge, responds to WHO funding naysayers, saying, 'it will hurt both of us' if the UK turns the taps off

Full interview below 👇
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🚨 Is medical cannabis on the election agenda?

Our co-chair Tonia Antoniazzi MP spoke to Sophie Church about medical cannabis in the UK and how we can unlock access in for patients that need it the most.

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NEW: Medical cannabis was legalised in 2018, but until now only three children have been prescribed.

I looked at whether Labour would make access simpler.

Thanks to Tonia Antoniazzi MP , Ronnie Cowan MP and Jim Shannon MP
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A great profile of John Bew, foreign policy adviser to Johnson, Truss and Sunak. Labour would do well to use his talents, as this article suggests.
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John Bew, a different kind of special adviser, by Sienna Rodgers & Sophie Church politicshome.com/thehouse/artic…

Rishi Sunak's foreign policy aide John Bew has now worked for 3 successive PMs. What makes him so valuable? Is he even a Tory?

Sophie Church and I spoke to friends and colleagues including David Lidington, Jason Cowley and Francis Beckett to find out: politicshome.com/thehouse/artic…

🌟 Foreign policy adviser John Bew has worked for three successive prime ministers. Sophie Church and Sienna Rodgers explore why he is so valuable. Illustration by Tracy Worrall

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Another great R&R story from Sophie Church — who you really ought to follow

A long-awaited parliamentary debate about restoring the Palace of Westminster is expected to be delayed until after the general election

No rush!

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Another excellent R&R scoop - this time from Sophie Church for The House magazine #WestminsterRR

What are Labour’s plans for the MoD? And what problems will John Healey face if he becomes defence secretary?

My piece on Labour's spending target, its MoD internal reform proposals, how defence industry insiders feel about the Labour team, & more 👇 politicshome.com/thehouse/artic…

EXCL: Labour MP Barry Sheerman says his party failed to support him through cancer after he was persuaded to run in 2019 despite having health problems

'I stood in 2019 because I thought they said they would look after me”

Read 👇
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How do you solve a problem like Britain’s shrinking Army?

From changing attitudes to calls for conscription, I’ve taken a look w Sophie Church at the debate raging around recruitment:
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