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Participant of a community stop smoking service using a vape as part of their quit attempt

Yorkshire charity urges MPs to protect appeal of vaping for people who smoke

If passed the bill means that terminally ill adults in England and Wales who have six months to live will legally have the choice to end their life.

Assisted dying bill UK: What is the proposed law?

Child plays with building blocks.

Watch: Measures for families announced in Rachel Reeves’ budget

Spen Valley MP Kim Leadbeater with Prime Minister Keir Starmer and her parents Jean and Gordon.

Keir Starmer praises Jo Cox at his first Prime Minister’s Questions

Dewsbury and Batley MP Iqbal Mohamed has officially taken his seat in the House of Commons following a swearing in ceremony

Watch Dewsbury and Batley MP Iqbal Mohamed sworn in to House of Commons

Your vote counts on July 4th

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Lights go out in the House of Lords.

Watch: House of Lords lights go out during minister’s speech

Encourage insects into green spaces. Photo: Adobe

Going Green: Try and encourage insects into green spaces

Batley and Spen MP Kim Leadbeater has called for a tough and targeted new approach to knife crime to help guide young people away from violence.

Batley and Spen MP calls for new approach to tackle knife crime

The BBC licence fee is set to increase in line with inflation.

BBC licence fee set to increase in 2024 - here's what you need to know

Jeremy Hunt will announce the Autumn Statement today. Credit: Getty/Adobe/Mark Hall

Watch the Chancellor's autumn statement speech here

The Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt will give the autumn statement today - watch it live

Tom Morton

Housing Secretary Michael Gove wrote to Tory backbenchers to say the ban on “no-fault” section 21 evictions promised as part of the Renters Reform Bill will not be enacted before a series of improvements are made in the legal system. Campaigners say this could delay the ban for years. Credit: Getty/Adobe/Kim Mogg

Ban on no fault evictions delayed indefinitely by Tory government

Tory MP Peter Bone. Credit: PA

Tory MP 'should be suspended over bullying and sexual misconduct'

Keir Mather

Who is Keir Mather? The new Labour MP for Selby and Ainsty

Batley and Spen MP Kim Leadbeater

Batley and Spen MP Kim Leadbeater on her two years in office

Chris Pincher scandal: Ex-Tory MP faces eight week suspension over groping claims - what did he do?

Chris Pincher scandal: Ex-Tory MP to face eight-week suspension

Clive Myrie. Picture: PA/Ian West.

Clive Myrie pulled from BBC News at Ten after Boris Johnson lying joke

Majority of MPs approve Privileges Committee Boris Johnson Partygate report

Boris Johnson suffers resounding defeat over ‘Partygate’ report

Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson

MPs find Boris Johnson ‘deliberately misled’ Commons multiple times

Rishi Sunak and Boris Johnson

Which Tory MPs have resigned triggering a by-election?

Nigel Adams, MP for Selby and Ainsty pictured outside Selby Abbey.

Another Tory MP resigns and triggers a third by-election

Former British prime minister Boris Johnson (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)

Will Boris Johnson stand as an MP in a different seat?

Green Party’s only MP to stand down at next election

Watch the moment Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle ‘snaps’ at Kemi Badenoch as pair lock horns in House of Commons

Watch the moment House of Commons Speaker ‘snaps’ at major Tory MP

Rishi Sunak is under investigation by the Parliament’s Standard Watchdog after allegedly failing to declare an interest

Sunak under investigation over alleged failure to declare interest

Margaret Ferrier MP was given a 270-hour community payback order for breaking lockdown rules by travelling on a train despite testing positive for Covid

Disgraced MP Margaret Ferrier facing 30 day suspension

Changes to the state pension age are common

Date of UK state pension age rise will not be brought forward

A mourner carries an order of service as they leave after attending the funeral of former Speaker of the House of Commons, Betty Boothroyd, at St George's Church in Thriplow, near Cambridge

In pictures: Mourners attend funeral of Dewsbury-born Baroness Betty Boothroyd

Mourners including Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer gathered today (Wednesday) for the funeral of Baroness Betty Boothroyd - the first, and only, female Speaker of the House of Commons.

Dominic Brown

Baroness Betty Boothroyd died aged 93 last month. (Image: Hansons/SWNS)

Mourners set to gather for the funeral of Betty Boothroyd

Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris speaking to the media at Hillsborough Castle after his meetings with Stormont leaders over Brexit and the Windsor Framework.

MI5 raises terror threat level in Northern Ireland to ‘severe’

TikTok is the world's most popular app

TikTok to be blocked from ‘all parliamentary devices’

Bag used by House of Commons Speaker Betty Boothroyd to go on auction

Smoking is now at least 15% more expensive following Jeremy Hunt’s Spring Budget 2023 - Credit: Adobe

Bad news for smokers: Cigarettes now cost more than ever

Martin Lewis reacts to Jeremy Hunt’s budget after Chancellor name checks him and ‘calls speaker old’

Budget 2023: Martin Lewis gives his verdict

Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt poses with the red Budget Box as he leaves 11 Downing Street in central London on March 15, 2023, to present the government’s annual budget to Parliament. (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP) (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Budget 2023: Living standards to fall by 6% - OBR

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt addressed the House of Commons with his Spring Budget 2023 on Wednesday - Credit: Getty Images

Key announcements from Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Spring Budget 2023

The Energy Price Guarantee (EPG) will remain at £2,500 for an additional three months.

Budget 2023: Energy Price Guarantee to be extended to June

'The new deputy chairman of the Conservative Party, Lee Anderson is wrong to believe that charities supporting asylum seekers in Calais are involved in a multimillion-pound industry'. PIC: UK Parliament/PA Wire

Lee Anderson: ‘myth’ those on Universal credit are in poverty

Mark Eastwood MP at the Treasury breakfast meeting

Mark Eastwood MP: Target to halve inflation​​​​​​​ must be met

Batley and Spen MP Kim Leadbeater and Madame Cholet at the House of Commons.

MP launches the Great British Spring Clean – with the help of the Wombles

Baroness Betty Boothroyd has died aged 93. (Image: Hansons/SWNS)

Betty Boothroyd dies aged 93

Former Speaker of the House, Betty Boothroyd. (Photo by Scott Barbour/Getty Images)

Iconic former speaker of House of Commons Betty Boothroyd dies aged 93

Therese Coffey says ‘cherish turnips’ amid UK tomato and veg shortage

The PCS Union (Credit: Getty Images)

PCS union announce 100,000 members will strike on Budget Day

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speaks during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons, London.

PMQs: How to watch Rishi Sunak face-off against Keir Starmer

The latest round of PMQs get underway on Wednesday

Patrick Hollis

Ex-Tory MP Neil Parish resigned after being caught watching pornography in the House of Commons twice.

Disgraced porn-watching ex-MP may stand again at next general election

Batley and Spen MP Kim Leadbeater with a member of staff from Cleckheaton Group Practice on Cross Church Street.

MP lays blame for NHS crisis at the door of the government

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has urged health leaders at an emergency meeting to take "bold and radical" action to alleviate the winter crisis in the NHS. Picture: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

How to watch Prime Minister’s Questions live

Handout photo taken with permission from the twitter feed of Extinction Rebellion of protesters who have superglued themselves around the Speaker's chair in the House of Commons chamber, as they call for a Citizen's Assembly. Picture date: Friday September 2, 2022.

Westminster reports reveal deliberate damage inside Commons

Number 10 refused to speculate on future migration policy. Credit: Getty Images

What time is PMQs on today?

Rishi Sunak is facing MPs on his fourth PMQs on Wednesday.

How to watch this week’s Prime Minister’s Questions live

Rishi Sunak will face PMQs once again on Wednesday. Credit: Getty Images

PMQs: How to watch Rishi Sunak face-off against Keir Starmer

Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt. (Photo credit should read TOLGA AKMEN/AFP via Getty Images)

Autumn Statement 2022: What Jeremy Hunt’s budget means for your pocket

Autumn Statement 2022: What time is Jeremy Hunt’s budget and how to watch it live online and TV

How to watch Jeremy Hunt’s Autumn Statement

Rishi Sunak pictured delivering a speech at the COP26 UN Climate Summit in Glasgow last year. PIC: DANIEL LEAL/AFP via Getty Images

PMQs: How to watch Rishi Sunak face-off against Keir Starmer

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