Your weekly update from the Law Society’s public affairs team on all the latest developments and debates in parliament and across Whitehall. This week: debate on our amendment to Mental Health Bill, ...

With Reform riding high in the polls, many new Labour MPs are deeply anxious about the threat posed by Nigel Farage. To fight ...

Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood slammed the Tories for having run 'our justice system to the ground' after Shadow Justice ...

New Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith has appointed the bulk of his shadow cabinet team - with few surprises among his chosen lieutenants. Mr Duncan Smith had moved overnight to appoint former ...

Opponents of Heathrow’s third runway in the Cabinet or beyond, be warned ... THINK AGAIN: Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood has called for the “legally irrational” prison release of Mohammed Ali ...

Fierce rows between Miliband and Brown, his political godfather, and fellow cabinet ministers Ed Balls and Peter Mandelson ... Fifteen years later, a Labour government is once again poised to back a ...

The Parole Board cleared the way for his release despite a call by Shabana Mahmood, the Justice Secretary, to reconsider its decision to free him. Doreen Soulsby, Tulip’s mother, has been ...

Rachel Reeves sounded defiance over a Cabinet revolt on Heathrow expansion today as she insisted growing the economy is her top priority. The Chancellor insisted major projects such as the third ...

Justice Secretary and Birmingham MP Shabana Mahmood has spoken of her devastation at news of another young death to knife crime in the city. She pledged to do all she could to help her Government ...

Two MPs have been elevated to shadow cabinet and several have been given new responsibilities after Vincent Tarzia’s first reshuffle. Find out who got what in the reshuffle. Mr Tarzia announced ...

Labour has confirmed it intends to “deliver the full level of savings in public finance forecasts” outlined by the Conservatives in their proposals to cut disability benefits. Under the previous ...

Elsewhere, Starmer has reportedly set up a “mini-Cabinet” of ministers focusing ... Health Secretary Wes Streeting and Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood voted against. The committee’s ...