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  • Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaks during a press conference

    Live
    Keir Starmer ‘restless for change’ as he vows to take action on prisons – politics live

  • Keir Starmer behind lectern with thumb up and union flag in background speaks to press

    Keir Starmer hits out at prison system ‘mess’ caused by Tories

    New PM says there are ‘too many prisoners and not enough prisons’ but that it will take time to change
  • HM Revenue & Customs in Whitehall, London.

    HMRC withheld offshore tax avoidance figures for UK’s wealthy during election

    Pressure on officials to publish estimate of offshore tax avoidance in almost £40bn of uncollected revenues

  • David Cameron and senior Tories push back against swift leadership contest

  • Wes Streeting says NHS is broken as he announces pay talks with junior doctors

  • Former Tory minister may become Labour’s ‘planning tsar’

  • ‘Now we begin’: what the papers say after Keir Starmer takes reins as UK prime minister

  • Rachel Reeves becomes UK’s first female chancellor; former Tory chair says party faces ‘oblivion’ – as it happened

  • Who is in the new Labour cabinet?

  • Keir Starmer’s cabinet will have most female ministers in history

  • Keir Starmer enters No 10 vowing to rebuild Britain ‘brick by brick’

Opinion

  • Keir Starmer outside No 10

    I’m hungry, cold and have multiple disabilities. Does Starmer’s promise of real change include me?

    Marie
  • Isabel Brooks

    My generation can barely recall the last time Labour was in power. We need to believe things really can get better

    Isabel Brooks
  • Andy Beckett

    Starmer won by shifting to the right. But the Labour left doesn’t need to spend these years in the wilderness

    Andy Beckett
  • Newly elected British prime minister Keir Starmer addresses the nation outside 10 Downing Street.

    How Keir Starmer can learn from Anthony Albanese’s missteps as he tries to rebuild Britain

    Marc Stears

  • He won the votes, now Starmer just needs to win over the people

    Jonathan Freedland

  • Houses and pylons: Labour’s biggest business challenges

    Nils Pratley

  • The Guardian view on Labour’s landslide: becoming the change the country needs

  • Starmer has promised big – now he must be bold and move quickly. Here’s how he should start

    Gaby Hinsliff

  • A triumphant Labour in Westminster, a humiliated SNP in Holyrood: Scotland is entering interesting times

    Rory Scothorne

  • The 2024 election results are among the most bizarre in British history – and the future could be stranger still

    Lewis Baston

  • Rishi Sunak departs with a brief nod to his achievements – mostly imagined

    John Crace

  • Hop, skip, jump and enchant the electorate – the Ed Davey doctrine was a stroke of genius

    Nels Abbey

Features & Analysis

  • Amelia Williams in a holiday snap, leaning on railings with a sunny seaside city below

    ‘I want Keir Starmer to have a sudden massive personality change’: gen Z on their hopes for a Labour government

  • UK General Election - Election count in London<br>epa11458193 Jeremy Corbyn (C) gives a speech after being declared winner of the North Islington Parliamentary seat, in London, Britain, 05 July 2024. Britons went to the polls on 04 July 2024 to elect new members of Parliament following the call by Britain's Prime Minister Sunak for a snap election. EPA/JON ROWLEY

    How the left fared in the UK election and where they go from here

  • Keir Starmer at lectern in wood-panelled room with two Union Flags in background

    Keir Starmer: tense election trail Labour leader replaced by affable prime minister

  • Prime minister Keir Starmer chairs the first meeting of his cabinet in 10 Downing Street on 6 July.

    What is on the immediate to-do list for five key new cabinet ministers?

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

  • Martin Rowson on Labour’s general election landslide – cartoon

    Martin Rowson on Labour’s general election landslide – cartoon

  • Ben Jennings on Britain’s day at the polls – cartoon

    Ben Jennings on Britain’s day at the polls – cartoon

    Millions of Britons have been voting in the first general election since 2019
  • Ben Jennings on the end of 14 years of dysfunctional Tory rule – cartoon

    Ben Jennings on the end of 14 years of dysfunctional Tory rule – cartoon

    Britain goes to the polls on Thursday and the outlook is bleak for the Conservatives

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