Do British people want to leave the ECHR? What a decade of polls reveals

Withdrawing the UK from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), once a fringe idea, has become a defining issue

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Attachment to our home town runs deep – so what happens when it faces dramatic change?

When the news broke in the autumn of 2023 that the blast furnaces at the steelworks in Port Talbot, south

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The new archbishop of Canterbury has already made history – but she has huge challenges ahead

Bruised by recent events, the Church of England has just entered a new era. Dame Sarah Mullally’s appointment as the

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‘Sex for rent’ is illegal in the UK. Why are thousands of people still affected?

When Andrew (not his real name) lost his job during the COVID pandemic, he turned to work as a courier.

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A Protestant candidate has added a twist to Ireland’s presidential race

Ireland will elect a new president on October 24. But not all Irish people will get to vote. Residents of

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Why it is so hard to estimate the number of victims of modern slavery in the UK

How many people in the UK are victims of modern slavery? At present, we don’t actually know. There is no

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How the high-rise tower block came to symbolise the contradictions of modern Britain

Between 2007 and 2010 Southwark council licensed 76 films to be shot on the high-rise Heygate estate in London’s Walworth

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Boris Johnson needs to take responsibility for immigration spike, says his former right-hand man

Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is

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Rachel Reeves says tax rises and spending cuts on budget agenda, citing Brexit impact | Budget 2025

Rachel Reeves has said tax rises and spending cuts are on the table for this autumn’s budget, as the government

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PMQs live: Starmer set to face Badenoch as government under pressure over China spy scandal

PMQs to begin shortly Sir Keir Starmer is set to face questions in the Commons shortly. It is the first

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