The post-war Atlee government created the welfare state with the best of intentions. But all it did was store up trouble for ...

The year is 1980, and 44 years have passed since Britain’s socialist revolution. A new generation has grown up, which has no ...

King George VI, on the advice of British PM Clement Attlee, appointed Lord Louis Mountbatten as India’s last Viceroy of India ...

Prime Minister Mr Clement Attlee got a warm welcome when he arrived in Greenock address his first meeting of his election ...

There are concerns that the Ukrainian president could be voted out of office if the country holds an election.

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S ir Keir Starmer KC is among the most successful British politicians of the past half-century. In just four years, Sir Keir ...

The deputy prime minister has written for The Independent hailing Labour’s plans for up to a dozen new towns in England ...

Alison Johnstone is letting women down by not allowing an issue that is important to women as well as husbands, fathers and brothers to be ...

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PRINCE Andrew may not be the recluse he is sometimes portrayed as these days but his landmark 65th birthday next week is ...