The Minister for Higher and Further Education has urged Vice Chancellors, staff and students to defend free speech against “the nonsense of cancel culture”.

People who contemplate suicide due to serious illness need mental health care, not help to kill themselves, two palliative medicine experts have said.

The Welsh Government has announced it will look into bringing in a ban on so-called ‘conversion therapy’ “unilaterally”, citing its ambition to become “the friendliest LGBTQ+ Nation in Europe”.

Labour’s Shadow Health Secretary has expressed caution about the introduction of a smacking ban in England.

Religious liberty is one of the foundations of a “stable and secure democratic society”, the UK’s Special Envoy for Freedom of Religion or Belief has said.