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House of Commons

July 2024

  • Keir Starmer and Labour MPs in Westminster.

    UK ministers preparing king’s speech containing at least 30 bills

  • Darling becomes an MP for the first time, having won his seat from the Tories' Kevin Foster

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    Steve Darling sworn in as MP for Torbay accompanied by his guide dog – video

  • Herman Van Rompuy and Nigel Farage in the European parliament in 2010

    Will Nigel Farage behave in Commons after record as a ‘ranting’ MEP?

  • Ted Heath and Margaret Thatcher in 1998; they stood against each other for the Conservative party leadership in 1975.

    Don’t leave the Tory leadership decision in the hands of party members

  • The Guardian view on Labour’s revolution: legitimising its power requires rebuilding trust

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Starmer praises Abbott and hails diverse Commons in first speech to parliament as PM – as it happened

  • Brief letters
    Up with the lark, but not by choice

  • Keir Starmer hails diverse Commons in first speech to parliament as PM – video

  • Nigel Farage claims in first Commons speech that John Bercow tried to 'overturn' Brexit – video

  • MPs re-elect Lindsay Hoyle as Commons speaker – video

  • Record 335 new MPs to be inducted into House of Commons this week

  • Positivity and pride in Britain’s new political era

  • Where will they all sit? Commons welcomes 334 rookie MPs in most diverse parliament

  • UK general election results in full: Labour wins in landslide

  • Brief letters
    Sketchy reporting of House of Commons debates

  • Labour to win, Tories to lose: but why can’t Britain have radical MPs free to speak their minds?

    Simon Jenkins

June 2024

  • Andrew Rawnsley

    Sir Keir Starmer’s pledge to clean up politics will come back to mock him if he doesn’t deliver

    Andrew Rawnsley
    The Labour leader must act quickly to establish a zero-tolerance approach to rule-breaking in the new parliament
  • Rory Stewart

    Rory Stewart is right about Britain’s broken politics

    Letters: In response to the ex-Tory MP’s article, John Robinson hopes future Labour ministers have time to do their jobs properly and Peter J Atkins points out the darker side of Stewart’s beloved Cumbrian dry-stone walls. Plus letters by Ian Smith and Diana Morgan
  • Participants in the BBC election debate, left to right: Nigel Farage, Reform; Rhun ap Iorwerth, Plaid Cymru; Daisy Cooper, Liberal Democrats; Stephen Flynn, SNP; Carla Denyer, Green party; Angela Rayner, Labour; Penny Mordaunt, Conservatives.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    BBC election debate: Penny Mordaunt says Sunak’s D-day snub was ‘very wrong’ in seven-party clash – as it happened

    Mordaunt, for the Tories, faced Labour’s Angela Rayner, Reform’s Nigel Farage and candidates from Lib Dems, SNP, Greens and Plaid Cymru

May 2024

  • Rishi Sunak visiting Belfast

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Sunak’s election tour branded shambolic after Titanic Quarter visit inspires sinking ship comparison – as it happened

    Incident in Belfast follows gaffe in Welsh brewery and campaign launch where Labour anthem was played
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