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New leader of backbench Tory MPs holds the party’s future in his hands

Bob Blackman, picked as the 1922 Committee chair, will play a major role in shaping the contest to replace Rishi Sunak

Published: 12:21 PM

Starmer heads for first Nato summit stressing continued Ukraine support

Labour has emphasised it commitment to national security and also its historical connection with Nato

Published: 1:00 AM

Is UK bucking Europe’s trend of moving to the right?

Published: 2:41 PM
Labour put ‘safe’ seats at risk to target marginals. It paid off – but there’s a cost

Published: 6:00 AM

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

In his first press conference inside No 10 there was a relaxed atmosphere – and a pledge to end ideological drama

Published: 10:45 AM
What is on the immediate to-do list for six key new cabinet ministers?

Several cabinet ministers have immediate issues to confront now they are safely installed in Whitehall. With the new government needing to make an early impression, we look at six figures with pressing concerns

Published: 10:00 AM
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Thames, Tata, Shein – it won’t be business as usual for Labour’s Jonathan Reynolds

The new business secretary will have big calls to make within a few days of sitting down at his desk

Published: 6:00 AM
‘This is going to be a disaster’: inside the Tories’ chaotic election campaign

From the surprise decision to call a snap election to the divisions inside the doomed campaign machine

Published: 12:00 AM

Labour convinced voters it was the safest choice – but now it has to govern with competence

Keir Starmer’s broad but shallow victory means it will spend five years fighting off challenges from the right and left

Published: 1:25 PM
‘Goodwill on all sides’: transfer of UK power the antithesis of last US election

Handover a sharp contrast to last US election, when Donald Trump refused to concede and incited riots

Published: 12:00 PM
What Keir Starmer really said in his PM acceptance speech

New leader recognised Sunak’s role in history and Labour’s next steps to succeed

Published: 9:08 AM
SNP’s humiliation in Scotland shows independence is no longer a priority

Former SNP voters stayed away or swung behind Labour, tired of scandal, policy failure and division

Published: 8:24 AM

Labour hardly dared to believe. But it seems the polls weren’t lying

After the Brexit battering of 2019, the party was at a low ebb. This has been a remarkable four-year turnaround

Published: 6:27 PM
New prime minister will face a range of urgent priorities from day one

An imminent Nato summit, bursting prisons and another strike by junior doctors for starters mean whoever takes the keys to No 10 will have little to no time to celebrate

Published: 5:00 AM

Across the market towns of Britain the battle for the soul of the right is fierce

The race in rural Louth and Horncastle, a previously unassailable Tory seat, encapsulates Reform’s real threat

Published: 1:00 AM
Starmer will be challenged from within Labour on many issues if he becomes PM

Aletha Adu

The climate crisis, child poverty, workers’ rights and strained relations with ethnic minority voters will all be on the agenda

Published: 12:00 AM

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