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Given Germany’s poor and frankly hostile response to our Brexit vote, this is the opportune moment to raise the issue of war reparations, writes Daniel Kawczynski
This September there is a once in a generation opportunity to change the trajectory of the world’s deadliest infectious disease, Nick Herbert and Virendra Sharma write
If Northern cannot ensure that basic services are available, the government must strip it of its rail franchise – and bring it back into public ownership, writes Sir David Crausby
We should constently seek to widen participation in our elections - but rolling out this voter ID scheme would create a significant barrier to voting for the elderly, ethnic minorities and the less well-off, warns Ellie Reeves
Priti Patel fears her party’s leadership is abandoning traditional Conservative values and retreating from the battle of ideas. Out of government and with the freedom to speak from the backbenches, the Witham MP tells Sebastian Whale why it’s time to stop “moaning” about Brexit and start delivering for the country
As she heads for the Arctic to witness first-hand the damage climate change is causing, Mary Creagh fears Britain is losing its place a world leader on decarbonisation. The chair of the Environmental Audit Committee talks to Elizabeth Bates
The Home Office has promised a ‘fundamental change’ in the way the country deals with domestic abuse. But does the political will exist to back up any change in the law with resources? James Millar talks to the minister in charge, Victoria Atkins, and MPs across the spectrum, about what needs to be done
A minority of UK men who pay to sexually access women’s bodies are driving this form of modern-day slavery. To end the exploitation and trafficking we must criminalise paying for sex, writes Gavin Shuker, the chair of the APPG on Prostitution and the Global Sex Trade
A child victim of a grooming gang does not exercise free will. That consent is still being taken into consideration by the police and the CPS in such cases is wrong, writes Lucy Allan
Britain should demand Governments ensure religious freedom and end persecution, writes Chris Philp
Institutional racism and the government’s ‘hostile environment’ policy have led to the criminalisation of a whole community, writes Naz Shah
Earlier this year MPs backed a resolution proposing a system of proxy voting the Commons in cases of parental absense. Charles Walker, the chair of the Procedure Committee, sets out how these proposals can be taken forward in practice
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