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UK politics

  • The leader of the opposition, Rishi Sunak with his MPs around him in the House of Commons

    New Sunak appointments mean four in 10 Tory MPs are on frontbench

  • Families are helped ashore at Dungeness from an RLNI lifeboat in the English Channel

    Home Office will decide asylum claims of thousands stuck in Rwanda scheme limbo

    Previous UK government had built up backlog of 90,000 people whose claims it deemed ‘inadmissible’
  • Jo Swinson sitting behind a desk

    Jo Swinson criticises ‘duplicitous’ civil servants at Post Office inquiry

    Former postal affairs minister says conduct of some civil servants was ‘Orwellian’ and raises questions of objectivity

  • UK politics: Zelenskiy asks Starmer to ‘show leadership’ and let Ukraine use weapons anywhere in Russia – as it happened

  • No more ‘basket-case Britain’: Europe welcomes Starmer reset in UK-EU ties

  • UK will not help Ukraine hit targets in Russia, defence secretary says

  • UK to resume funding to UN Palestine relief agency Unrwa

  • Labour’s new defence adviser Fiona Hill: from the White House to Whitehall

  • Labour says higher-than-forecast UK borrowing shows economic challenge ahead

  • Parents saving up to £10,000 in nursery benefits may face unexpected tax bills

  • English councils call for further delay to social care costs cap

Opinion

  • Aidan Kelly

    I treat transgender children – banning puberty blockers is not a decision for politicians to make

    Aidan Kelly
  • Marina Hyde

    Welcome to 2024’s saddest race – who gets to be Britain’s ‘Trump whisperer’?

    Marina Hyde
  • Polly Toynbee

    Starmer will bin the two-child benefit cap and outdo New Labour on tackling poverty – I’ll bet on it

    Polly Toynbee
  • Andy Beckett

    Tough on elites, tough on the causes of elites: that’s how Starmer can defeat the allure of populism

    Andy Beckett

  • A record sentence for a Zoom call, arrests for those holding signs outside. This is a blight on British democracy

    George Monbiot

  • Exit Bungee-jumping Ed, enter Shifty Ed as Davey attends the Post Office inquiry

    John Crace

  • The Guardian view on the European Political Community summit: at last, Britain is back in the diplomatic room

  • David Cameron failed to foist new houses on rural areas. Why does Keir Starmer think he’ll succeed?

    Simon Jenkins

  • The Covid inquiry report makes it clear: Britain was completely and fatally unprepared

    Devi Sridhar

  • Nige shows up for pomp of king’s speech, then jets off to US when the work starts

    John Crace

  • The Guardian view on the king’s speech: a new era of state intervention begins

  • With this king’s speech, Starmer has staked everything on the long game. But politics has a habit of moving fast

    Martin Kettle

Features & Analysis

  • A person leans against a phonebox while facing away from the camera

    ‘Despair and anger’: minority groups in Reform seats adjust to life after its election success

  • Petra Fleming in front of Covid wall of remembrance with red hearts

    ‘Bittersweet’: Covid report does not go far enough, say bereaved families

  • Baroness Heather Hallett

    Covid inquiry: Hallett prescribes ‘red teams’ as antidote to flawed thinking

  • Danny Sriskandarajah, British-Australian activist, born in Sri Lanka, who runs the UK thinktank the New Economics Foundation

    The radical who left Oxfam to fight for democracy: ‘Eight men have the same wealth as half the world. Where does this end?’

Politics Weekly UK
Every Thursday, Guardian political columnist John Harris hosts a cast of voices from up and down the country as well as across the political spectrum to analyse the week’s political news.

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Cartoons

  • Ella Baron on Labour’s failure to address the two-child benefit cap in the king’s speech – cartoon

    Ella Baron on Labour’s failure to address the two-child benefit cap in the king’s speech – cartoon

  • Martin Rowson on Donald Trump and divine intervention – cartoon

    Martin Rowson on Donald Trump and divine intervention – cartoon

    The Republican presidential nominee has declared that he was saved ‘by the grace of almighty God’ after surviving a shooting in Pennsylvania
  • Martin Rowson on the UK’s Covid inquiry – cartoon

    Martin Rowson on the UK’s Covid inquiry – cartoon

    Former health secretaries Matt Hancock and Jeremy Hunt have been criticised for failing to prepare for the pandemic

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