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On 8 October, Alistair Lexden backed a successful cross-party Lords amendment to the Parliamentary Constituencies Bill to help young people coming up to the age...

The Government gave a poor account of itself in answer to an oral question from Alistair Lexden about Scotland’s position in the United Kingdom on 4 November...

On 9 November, the Lords amended the Government’s controversial Internal Market Bill by removing from it the clauses that would authorise the breaking of...

Is the Union between Scotland and the rest of the United Kingdom going to survive? A question that would once have been regarded as utterly absurd is now being...

The Journal is published annually by the Conservative History Group, of which Alistair Lexden is Chairman. It is edited by Stephen Parkinson, Lord Parkinson of...

Boris Johnson’s difficulties with his backbench MPs were the subject of a 30-minute programme on BBC Radio 4, in its regular Analysis series, broadcast on 12...

Some 40,000 people were injured, many seriously, during the IRA’s thirty-year campaign in Northern Ireland. Some of the victims were unable to do any form of...

On September 8, Brandon Lewis, the Northern Ireland Secretary, plunged Boris Johnson into yet another crisis when he confessed in the House of Commons that the...

During a short debate in the House of Lords on 7 September, reference was made (inaccurately) to the exclusion of a newly created peer from the House in the...