Changes to the national insurance tax for self-employed people was one of the most controversial parts of the 2017 spring budget.
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UK politics – Analysis and Comment
He came to power promising a new kind of politics but has spent his tenure plumbing new electoral depths.
Philip Hammond delivers his last Spring Budget on the state of the UK economy. Our panel of experts dissect what it says.
Peers have sent the Brexit bill back to MPs with changes calling for a vote on a final deal, and the protection of EU nationals in Britain.
The debate about what role the Lords play in Brexit is potentially based on a misunderstanding about what the upper house actually does.
The House of Commons’ longest-serving MP has died, aged 86.
If you think Brexit will be the issue that brings elections to the upper chamber, think again.
It held on in Stoke, but Labour has suffered a humiliating defeat to the governing party in Copeland.
We know where Jeremy Corbyn stands on certain issues, but where is the vision? What are the ideas?
The party picked the wrong candidate and the wrong tactics in this byelection, and it showed in the result.
There’s a lot of talk about a Brexit ‘divorce bill’ costing the UK tens of billions – we got two academics to check the facts.
It’s almost as though Europe saw Brexit coming when the Treaties of Rome were signed in 1957.
Government departments have been squeezed particularly hard over the past few years. Now they need to find thousands of people who can work out how to leave the EU.
Despite pages and pages of proposed amendments, not a single one was passed.
The past year has seen more parliamentarians take the ‘Chiltern Hundreds’ than at any time since the 1970s.
Does the holder of the key have the right to lock the door on the leader of the free world?
Brexit has exposed the weaknesses of the British political system – not its strengths.
The government has set out its thinking on Brexit. So what have we learned?
After all the build up, you’d have been forgiven for expecting something a bit more impressive from parliament’s debate on triggering Article 50.
There’s no middle ground when it comes to a president like this.
One of David Cameron’s more tangible legacies is in danger as the UK rushes to secure trading partners around the globe.
The ties between the US and UK have long been depicted in loving terms. But with these two in charge, it can only be a marriage of convenience from now on.
It’s all smiles as two leaders meet for the first time, but it’ll take more than warm words to navigate the choppy waters ahead.
It’s only two lines long, but this piece of parliamentary business could cause a lot of trouble.
The Conservatives may be willing to sacrifice what’s left of the UK’s beleaguered social model to maintain the City’s global status.