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Rathlin Harbour pictured in 2006. Picture: Farming Life archives/Kevin McAuley

Bygone Days: Urgent need of a harbour for Rathlin Island raised in House of Comm...

Encourage insects into green spaces. Photo: Adobe

Going Green: Try and encourage insects into green spaces

A view of 49 scarecrows outside the Houses of Parliament as part of Riverford's ‘Get Fair About Farming’ campaign, calling for the Government to force the leading supermarkets to adopt fairer principles for British farmers. (Picture: David Parry/PA Wire)

Scarecrows ‘protest’ outside Parliament

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

Chris Osborne. Picture: Cliff Donaldson

Chris Osborne gives evidence to Northern Ireland Affairs Committee

Pictured in September 1992 at the Ahoghill Horse Fair is Noreen Hamill, right, who was celebrating her 14th birthday at the fair with Pauline McKeown from Randalstown, and Charlie the pony. The premier championship award at the fair was awarded to Robert Campbell of Ballymena for his Clydesdale mare with foal. Picture: News Letter archives/Darryl Armitage

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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

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?

Could the controversial former prime minister be eyeing up a comeback already?

Katie Clark

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

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’

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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

The Chancellor of the Exchequer has delivered his first ever Spring Budget in the House of Commons on Wednesday afternoon.

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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

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

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

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

Theresa Villiers MP and UFU president David Brown.

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MP Carla Lockhart.

Response to Avian Flu threat must be adequately resourced – Lockhart

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak (centre) during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons this week. Columnist Susan Morrison is not getting too attached to the UK's new leader - for now, at least. PIC: UK Parliament/Jessica Taylor/PA Wire

How to watch Prime Minister’s Questions live

A sheep makes a run for the road after its escape from the arena at the Cairncastle Sheepdog Trials near Larne in September 1982. Picture: Farming Life/News Letter archives

Bygone Days: Farm minister replies to criticism nationalist of Ulster creameries...

Britain’s Home Secretary Suella Braverman addresses delegates on the third day of the annual Conservative Party Conference. Credit: Getty Images

Home Secretary plans to crack down on protests with new bill

The Chancellor today unveiled his mini-budget to the House of Commons. Credit: PA

Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s stamp duty cut: What does it mean?

Prime Minister Liz Truss speaks at her first Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons, London. Photo credit UK Parliament/Jessica Taylor /PA Wire

Energy Bill Plan: what help was announced by Prime Minister Liz Truss

General Franco at Burgos Cathedral after attending the Requiem for the late Primo de Rivera, founder of the Nationalist Movement in Spain

THROUGH THE ARCHIVES: General Franco asked for prompt explanation after British ...

Crowds outside Bow Street court for the trial of Sir Roger Casement. Picture: PA/PA Wire

THROUGH THE ARCHIVES: From the News Letter of May 1956

The statue to Colonel Edward Saunderson outside St Mark's Church in Portadown. Picture: Google

THROUGH THE ARCHIVES: Statement highlights the plight of Lurgan handloom weavers

Westminster Bridge pictured here in 1928, it extends from the Houses of Parliament on the North side of the River to St. Thomas's Hospital on the Surrey side, and was built in 1869 at an approximate cost of £1,000,000. Picture: Wikimedia Commons

THROUGH THE ARCHIVES: Select committee hears witness evidence concerning Sunday ...

Westminster Bridge pictured here in 1928, it extends from the Houses of Parliament on the North side of the River to St. Thomas's Hospital on the Surrey side, and was built in 1869 at an approximate cost of £1,000,000. Picture: Wikimedia Commons

THROUGH THE ARCHIVES: Chief Secretary forced to defend cabinet’s Irish policy