We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest BAE Systems PLC news every morning. Ministers have proposed increasing the threshold by which e-petitions have a chance of generating a ...

A photograph by Yuri Zhitlukhin I came across while searching for images of Soviet classrooms of the post-Bolshevik Revolution period shows a teacher playing the flute to her students in a ...

Ahead of the Conservative party’s spring conference, David Cameron is increasingly worried about Tory backbench dissent – and about how much worse it could get after the AV referendum. David Cameron ...

In British-style parliamentary systems, a backbencher is a member of parliament who doesn’t hold government office and isn’t a spokesperson of the opposition. They’re essentially a rank and file ...