The ten things you need to know on Wednesday 15 May... 1) DAVE'S RED LINE Today, the Commons speaker John Bercow will make a decision on whether...

Margaret Thatcher was condemned for holding sections of society in "brutal contempt" on Wednesday, as Labour MPs attacked the legacy left behind by th...

Ed Miliband will call for minimum wage rules to be more strictly enforced today as a method of cracking down on low-skilled immigration, after the gov...

Any restrictions on health and welfare benefits for immigrants from European Union states would have to apply equally to UK citizens under EU law, Dow...

The issue is the easy availability of hard-core porn on the internet. Obviously, for adults, viewing hard-core porn is their choice. But the average age of kids viewing hardcore porn has dropped from 11 to eight. Primary school children can view on their mobile phones material that would not even have been available in a top-shelf magazine a generation ago.

Shadow health minister, Diane Abbott, will warn on Tuesday that British culture is becoming "increasingly pornified" and risks damaging younger genera...

People should be able to live how they want, not how some illiberal nanny state that thinks it knows best and forces laws onto its unwilling subjects wants them to.

It cannot be repeated enough that there has been no new medical evidence to suggest any scientific or medical reason for a reduction in the abortion time limit since this was last debated in the House of Commons in May 2008. This debate isn't being reopened because of any new medical evidence or the current figures on abortion, but because of a toxic, politicisation of the issue by elements within the Conservative Party. It is happening because Jeremy Hunt's gratuitous attack on British women's right to choose has opened the door to parts of the Tory party to begin unwanted and distracting wrangling in parliament to reduce the time limits.

Nadine Dorries said she was speaking out for the "vulnerable" women "coerced" into abortion as she outlined her plans to reduce Britain's abortion tim...

Nadine Dorries will face off with Diane Abbott in a Halloween showdown over abortion limits, it emerged on Wednesday. The backbench Conservative MP...

In defending his anti-abortion position Mehdi Hasan has frequently resorted to patronising putdowns.

David Cameron has said he is in favour of a "modest" reduction in the abortion time limit, just days after his health secretary backed banning termina...

Senior Labour figures including shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper and shadow public health minister Diane Abbott have strongly criticised Jeremy Hun...

Miller, Hunt, May et al have all chosen to talk about women's reproductive rights on the eve of Tory Party conference. This is about politics not medicine. These statements are a deliberate attempt to appeal to that wing of the Tory right which is obsessed with rolling back women's rights over their own bodies.

The call by women's minister Maria Miller to lower the abortion limit to 20 weeks is "anti-women" and could signal the beginning of a right-wing push ...