Dods People draws together a list of appointments in Westminster politics, the devolved administrations and the public affairs sector in the last week.

Conservative ministers have announced plans to make it easier for doctors and nurses hoping to move to the UK to obtain visas if they win the election.

Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns has resigned from the Cabinet as a probe was launched into claims he knew a Conservative candidate had "sabotaged" a rape trial. 

Dominic Grieve has called on Downing Street to withdraw a “slur” against him amid a deepening row over an unpublished report on Russian interference in UK democracy.

Government spending is likely to return to levels not seen since the 1970s regardless of whether the Conservatives or Labour win the general election, a leading think tank has said.

Dods People draws together a list of appointments in Westminster politics, the devolved administrations and the public affairs sector in the last week.

UK ministers have been urged to reconsider their opposition to drug consumption rooms in Scotland after the number deaths from substance abuse in the country reached an all-time high.

Fracking will be banned in the UK until there is "compelling" new evidence to quell safety fears over the process, the Government has said.

With the country bitterly split over Brexit, Gillian Keegan heads out on the campaign trail hoping to remind voters that, whatever our differences, we have far more in common than that which divides us

As we head into the next parliamentary session, business really needs to take responsibility for its own future: to clean up its act and tell a new story about the good it creates. Because for now, at least, the politicians are losing the will to fight for it, writes WPI's Sean Worth. 

Ministers have let the prison system fall into an "appalling" state due to a lack of leadership, an influential group of MPs has said.

Downing Street has denied claims by Amber Rudd that Boris Johnson asked her to stand again for the Tories in a row over removing the party whip from her.

Boris Johnson must take “urgent action” over the Grenfell Tower inquiry's findings, its chair has said.

Home Secretary Priti Patel's most senior aide had to be escorted from a Commons bar by armed police.

Former Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson has stepped down from her new PR job just days after it was announced, following an outcry over possible conflict of interest with her job as an MSP.

Philip Hammond has said he is "agonising" over whether he wants the Conservative Party to win the next general election.

The death of a newborn in a prison cell might have been avoided if Government ensured pregnant inmates received proper healthcare, writes Baroness Hussein-Ece

Dods People draws together a list of appointments in Westminster politics, the devolved administrations and the public affairs sector in the last week.

Former aides to John Bercow have accused Parliament’s authorities of an “establishment stitch-up” over the failure to act on bullying claims made against the Speaker.

Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick has claimed he lost sleep over issues surrounding the cause of the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire, and said that the Government’s response was too slow.

Rory Stewart has apologised after he described three black men he met on the Tory leadership campaign trail as "minor gangsters".

“It was only a matter of time before it ended in tragedy” is how Thurrock MP Jackie Doyle-Price reacted to the shocking discovery in her Essex town.

Mixed technology approach would save £7bn compared to 100% electrification, says Liquid Gas UK.

The Government wasted more than £2million on a “botched” age verification policy for online pornography, a minister has revealed.