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Talitha Rowland is the Cabinet Office Deputy Director who runs the secretariat for the Cabinet's Parliamentary Business and Legislation Comm...

Fast-streamer Mohammed Hasan interviewed Jacob Rees-Mogg as part of 2021's Civil Service Live, giving the Leader of the House a chance to se...

Jacob Rees-Mogg hands over the reins to Lord Hannan of Kingsclere for a special episode to conclude the second series of 'Why Parliament Wor...

Dame Eleanor Laing is the House of Commons' senior deputy speaker, the Chairman of Ways and Means. In this episode she discusses with Jacob...

The Domestic Abuse Act 2021 is a landmark piece of legislation and the result of extensive scrutiny by Parliament. In this special episode o...

Dr Caroline Shenton, historian, archivist and author of 'The Day Parliament Burned Down' and 'Mr Barry's War', discusses the disastrous 1834...

The Leader of the House of Lords, Baroness Natalie Evans of Bowes Park, discusses with the Leader of the House of Commons, Jacob Rees-Mogg M...

Catherine McKinnell is the MP for Newcastle upon Tyne North and chairman of the Commons' petitions committee, which has been giving members...

Carolyn Harris is the Member of Parliament for Swansea East and a regular contributor to business questions, where she often praises individ...

The development of petitioning during the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries is an important chapter in the UK Parliament's history. This period...

In his long and distinguished parliamentary career Lord Hague of Richmond has seen the Commons - and more recently, the Lords - from every c...

Following the UK's exit from the European Union the three principles of parliamentary of sovereignty as defined by A.V. Dicey, that great co...

Sir John Fortescue is underappreciated today despite being the leading political thinker in England in the 15th century. His concept of a do...

The 'How Parliament Works' textbook, co-authored by Lord Lisvane (see S1 E6), defines the usual channels as "the informal and private contac...

The United Kingdom’s 21st century constitution can directly trace its commitment to the concept of consent from the people back to the 1297...

The second series of 'Why Parliament Works' explores elements of Leader of the House of Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg's Wheeler-Booth Memorial Lec...

With kind permission of the Erskine May Memorial Trust, Leader of the House of Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg reads from chapter 20 of the 25th edi...

Mark Hutton, co-editor (with Sir David Natzler) of the 25th edition of 'Erskine May' , discusses his work helping shape one of the UK Parlia...

Scouts CEO Matt Hyde reflects on UK Parliament Week, before Jacob Rees-Mogg takes questions from Scouts in south London about the UK's parli...

In what might just be a ministerial first, Speaker of the House of Commons Sir Lindsay Hoyle is interviewed by Leader of the House of Common...
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