Wednesday, 24 April 2024 () BBC Local News: London -- The crossbench peer spent 40 years as MP for Birkenhead and was a leading voice on welfare reform.
Former Labour MP and crossbench peer Frank Field has died at the age of 81. He was MP for Birkenhead between 1979 and 2019, and served as welfare reform minister in the first Blair government. Although a Labour man for most of his life, he was a maverick who ploughed his own political furrow, and his...
Energy minister Graham Stuart says the Tory donor at the centre of a new race row has ‘rightly apologised’ for remarks allegedly made about the former Labour MP Diane Abbott. Conservative Party..