Grief is something every one of us will experience. It does not discriminate against any social class, profession, or walk of ...

Ahead of Wednesday’s Budget, the Medical Defence Union (MDU) has issued an open letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer ...

The opinions in Politics.co.uk's Comment section are those of the author. MPs are to debate proposals to give terminally ill people in England and Wales the right to choose to end their life. Keir ...

In terms of economic policy, the Conservative Party is economically liberal, generally favouring the free market and opposing government controls. Positioning itself as the party of small business, ...

When a government spends more than it collects, it runs an annual budget deficit. This is formally known as the Public Sector Net Cash Requirement. The accumulation of previous annual budget deficits, ...

The BBC Charter sets out its four public purposes. The first of these is “to provide impartial news and information to help people understand and engage with the world around them.” In keeping with ...

Water has been at the forefront of political debate for some time in this country. We can all recall the scandalous headlines: record levels of raw sewage being pumped into our waterways alongside ...

Do the public support the monarchy? The argument that the UK should abolish the monarchy and become a republic remains at the fringes of mainstream political debate. The British monarchy as an ...

What is current rate of tobacco duty? Properly referred to as Tobacco Products Duty, but more widely known by its shortened name, Tobacco Duty is an excise duty charged on purchases of tobacco ...

Prostitution describes the offering and provision of sexual services for financial gain. In the UK, with the exception of Northern Ireland (where buying sex is illegal), the law around prostitution is ...

“Right to Buy” is a scheme under which longstanding local authority tenants are entitled to purchase their homes at a heavily discounted price. To be eligible to participate in a ‘right to buy’ scheme ...

What is the UK school leaving age? In the UK, the government determines the duration of compulsory education, with the minimum school leaving age set down in an Act of Parliament. The school leaving ...