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Money shouldn’t buy you an easier route to top jobs. Redressing the balance between private and public education will drive opportunity for all, writes Lucy Powell MP
Writing ahead of The House magazine’s Speaker Hustings, Dame Eleanor Laing MP sets out what she would bring to the chair
Replace student fees with graduate contribution to a higher education fund and make degree courses free at the point of delivery, writes Justine Greening MP
Lord Bird talks to Georgina Bailey about his his latest campaign for a UK-wide Future Generations Act, and how he's not afraid to "cheese off some people" to ensure that society and the planet work for the children born in the next few decades.
To bridge the rural-urban divide in social mobility, counties must be given the funding and powers to improve further education opportunities, writes Peter Aldous MP
The careful balance between courts, Parliament and Acts of Parliament is being badly shaken by recent events, and needs consideration, writes John Redwood MP
Children from low-income households should not have to face the stigma and embarrassment caused by zealously enforced school dress codes, writes Emma Hardy MP
Modern Britain has outgrown this system. It is time for a written constitution drawn up by citizen-led assemblies, writes Caroline Lucas MP
The deadline for Westminster legislation on abortion and same-sex marriage in Northern Ireland is fast approaching. Meanwhile Stormont remains in deadlock with an ongoing dispute over the Irish language. But is any return to power-sharing now wholly dependent on a successfully-worded Brexit compromise? Crossbench peer Lord Bew reports
The latest Commons Gossip from Alain Tolhurst
In 2010 Rose Hudson-Wilkin became the first woman and the first person of colour to be Speaker’s Chaplain in the role’s 350-year history. As she leaves the post, she talks to Sally Dawson about breaking with tradition, John Bercow’s legacy and why MPs have a duty to stamp out “yobbish” behaviour
"Until you have had to do it, you cannot truly appreciate how scary it is to address a packed House of Commons at PMQs."
The Engineering a Better World podcast series from The House magazine and the IET is back for series two! New host Jonn Elledge discusses with parliamentarians and industry experts how technology and engineering can provide policy solutions to our changing world.
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