Quick question. Can you name your local councillors? Most people can't. They make decisions about your roads, your planning applications, your council tax, and your local services. Type your postcode and meet them. houseofthepeople.com

Do you know who governs you? Not just your MP. Your council. Your ward. Your councillors. The party that runs your council. How much your council spends per resident compared to the rest of the country. Enter your postcode. See it all on houseofthepeople.com

On houseofthepeople.com, we've got every bill in Parliament, walked through part by part in plain English. Not the legal text. Not a summary of a summary. The real content, explained clearly, with every claim linked back to the Parliament source it came from.

Parliament closed for the summer last Thursday. At House of The People, we spent the recess shipping the biggest update in the platform's history. Every corner of the platform rebuilt or expanded. Rolling out the details this week. houseofthepeople.com

Andy Burnham becomes Prime Minister on Monday, and the cabinet is already being assembled. The Financial Times reported yesterday that Shabana Mahmood will be the next Chancellor, news that landed while Keir Starmer was still saying his goodbyes.

Parliament's Public Accounts Committee spent Thursday morning examining the cost and governance of restoring the Palace of Westminster, a building that is falling apart and has been in need of major repair for well over a decade.

A senior MP is under investigation over gifts and donations he did not declare. He says he has done nothing wrong and that the money was "purely personal"

Last week, MPs debated reform of the leasehold system, the arrangement that leaves five million people owning their homes but not the ground beneath them, often paying rising charges to companies they never chose.

This week, MPs will debate a petition signed by more than 200,000 people, calling for anyone convicted of terrorism offences to be banned from standing for elected office.

The likely next Prime Minister says Britain needs a "circuit breaker" and wants to put power "in the hands of the people."

Andy Burnham, the man most likely to become Britain's next Prime Minister, gave his first major speech this week. His message: "Westminster is broken," and he intends to fix it.

A consultation on settlement rules drew over 200,000 public responses. A petition on animal welfare drew 238,000 signatures and was rejected before its debate. A digital ID strategy was launched with no consultation at all.

Did you know that Britain will have its fifth Prime Minister in four years when Andy Burnham takes office on 18 July?

Andy Burnham is on the verge of becoming Prime Minister without a contest. Yesterday his main rival stood aside and backed him. Today, some Labour MPs are pushing a candidate to stand against him for one reason: they believe a Prime Minister should not be crowned without a vote.

This morning Keir Starmer resigned as Prime Minister outside Downing Street, becoming the sixth Prime Minister to leave office in a decade. He won one of the largest parliamentary majorities in modern history less than two years ago on 34% of the vote.

Today is polling day in Makerfield. 76,000 people in a constituency in Wigan are voting in a by-election that will determine whether Andy Burnham can enter Parliament, trigger a Labour leadership contest and become the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

In seven days, a by-election will be held in Makerfield, a constituency in Wigan. The result will determine whether Andy Burnham can enter Parliament, trigger a Labour leadership contest, and become the next Prime Minister.

Yesterday Parliament passed the second reading of the Health Bill, the legislation that will abolish NHS England and reshape how your healthcare is governed for years to come. This morning Parliament opened a call for written evidence from the public on the bill.

Did you know that a former Prime Minister published an essay on Tuesday accusing the current Labour government of prioritising internal politics over competent governance?

The Treasury is currently making a surplus of over £600 million from student loans taken out by young people who were told the terms when they signed, and then had those terms changed afterwards.

On 18 June, a by-election will be held in Makerfield, a constituency in Wigan. The result will determine whether Andy Burnham can enter Parliament and stand in a Labour leadership contest that would determine who leads this country. The rest of the country will have no vote in it.

Did you know that the government's digital ID strategy was described yesterday by the Home Affairs Committee as doomed to fail before it even launched?

Every week your MP votes on bills that will shape your NHS, your workplace rights, your housing, your energy and the daily life of every person in this country. Do you know how they have voted? Did they vote the way you would have?

Did you know that a party can win a majority of seats in Parliament on less than 35% of the total votes cast? In 2024, Labour won 63% of the seats on 34% of the vote, the lowest share of any governing party since 1830. Millions of votes cast for other parties had no influence on the result.

Local elections are being held today for thousands of council seats across the UK. These votes decide who runs your local services for the next 4 years: • Social care • Housing & planning • Roads & potholes • Bin collections & recycling • Parks & libraries

The Crime and Policing Bill is making its way through Parliament right now. Do you know what it contains? Do you know how your MP voted? Have your say at houseofthepeople.com

Every week Parliament votes on legislation that affects millions of people. Every week House of the People publishes the gap between what the public voted for and what MPs actually decided.

The House of Lords has never faced a public election. It still has the power to delay, amend and send back legislation your elected MP voted for. Unelected, unaccountable, and with no mandate from the public whatsoever.

Some people think making democracy more accessible is a problem. We're building House of the People because we believe the opposite: more voices in the room isn't a threat to democracy. It's the point of it. houseofthepeople.com

The Crime and Policing Bill is making its way through Parliament right now. Do you know what it contains? Do you know how your MP voted? Have your say at houseofthepeople.com