The Speaker of the House of Commons recreated the symbolic switching on of the Ayrton Light at the top of the Elizabeth Tower.

It is 80 years since the Ayrton Light was switched back on after World War Two blackout regulations were lifted.

Polling day for the Nottinghamshire County Council election is 1 May. More information and a full list of candidates is ...

Government officials were holed up in a Premier Inn down the road from British Steel's steelworks in Scunthorpe and parliament's work to change the ... Trump's guiding principle of "America First".

The Business Secretary has accused a Chinese firm of trying to shut down the British steel industry in a dramatic day in Parliament. Jonathan Reynolds hit out at Jingye, the owners of British ...

Proposals to save British Steel's Scunthorpe blast furnaces have been approved by Parliament after an extraordinary sitting on Saturday. Emergency legislation giving the Government the power to ...

U.K. lawmakers returned to Parliament from their Easter break on ... unusual Saturday sitting to debate a bill aimed at blocking British Steel’s Chinese owners, Jingye Group, from closing ...

The UK government has called an emergency weekend session of parliament to pass legislation aimed at saving the country’s last factory that makes steel from raw materials, a move that has been ...

LONDON — British MPs have approved emergency legislation empowering ministers to place British Steel under state control. The dramatic intervention — interrupting the parliament's Easter recess — ...

Ministers took the unusual step of recalling Parliament from its Easter recess to sit on Saturday after negotiations with British Steel's Chinese owners, Jingye, appeared to break down.

MPs will today debate emergency laws to save British Steel after the prime minister warned the country's "economic and national security is on the line". Sir Keir Starmer said the future of the ...