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Local elections

July 2024

  • A voter carrying his passport along with his poll card, as he walks to a polling station

    The Tories’ voter ID rules are anti-democratic. Labour must scrap them

    Letters: Readers respond to reports that as many as 400,000 people may have been prevented from voting last week

22 May 2024

  • Map graphic for data analysis piece

    Big Tory losses but no Labour landslide. What might happen at Westminster? – a visual analysis

    Tory representation has imploded, but Labour’s gains have not been seismic. These charts show what this may signal for a general election

12 May 2024

  • Labour party leader Keir Starmer and his wife, Victoria, leave a polling station in London after voting in local elections on 2 May 2024.

    Labour could lose a wide range of voters over Gaza, not just Muslim ones

    Letters: Readers say the party has alienated many people beyond Muslim and leftwing voters, and may struggle to get them back

11 May 2024

  • Mike Tapp, Natalie Elphicke and Keir Starmer

    Labour gains in leave areas may cut swing needed for overall majority

    Analysis reveals voters switching from the Tories in pro-Brexit seats could make a Starmer election victory easier to achieve

9 May 2024

  • Natalie Elphicke and Keir Starmer sitting on armchairs talking one another (Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire)

    Today in Focus
    Rishi Sunak staggers on – but for how long?

    Guardian political correspondent Kiran Stacey tells Helen Pidd what heavy local election losses mean for the PM, and looks at what calculation Keir Starmer made in taking in rightwing Tory Natalie Elphicke
  • A general view of the Woking Borough Council offices in 2023

    How savage Tory cuts hollowed out all our public services

    Letters: Readers respond to an article by John Harris on the devastating impact of the austerity years on councils and communities
  • Rishi Sunak wears a navy suit and lighter blue tie and looks up towards the sky

    Politics Weekly UK
    Tory defections, economic challenges and council winners – Politics Weekly UK

    The Conservatives have been left bloodied after a devastating set of local election results. This week, John Harris speaks to councillors about what’s really going on for them in their area. Plus, he speaks to the Guardian’s Gaby Hinsliff about another Tory defection to Labour, and the Labour party’s attempt to take the crown for economic responsibility

8 May 2024

  • National Trust for Scotland’s revamped Crathes Castle Rose Garden.

    Brief letters
    A cheaper way to join the National Trust if you’re over 60

  • A sign saying POLLING STATION attached to a white lorry with Dudley metropolitan borough council on its door outside a polling station with houses in background

    Viral hate campaign targeted Dudley teacher after fake racist video shared

7 May 2024

  • John Crace

    The politics sketch
    Toxic Tories doomed as Sunak hunkers down and Labour sticks the boot in

    John Crace
  • Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves speaking at a podium at the Association of British Insurers in the City of London.

    Labour must win back voters’ trust over Gaza, say Rachel Reeves and Sadiq Khan

  • Justine Greening

    Tories must face hard truths: Reform-lite wreckers like Braverman are why the public just don’t like us

    Justine Greening
  • Andy Burnham

    I will build at least 10,000 council homes. As for right to buy – suspend it for new properties

    Andy Burnham

6 May 2024

  • Close-up Rishi Sunsak

    Tory rebels call time on leadership challenge as Sunak limps on

  • Andy Street

    The Guardian view on the local elections: an anti-Tory landslide points to the end of an era

  • Ben Jennings on Rishi Sunak’s plan after last week’s elections results – cartoon

    Guardian Opinion cartoon
    Ben Jennings on Rishi Sunak’s plan after last week’s elections results – cartoon

  • The PM said he was 'absolutely determined to fight' in the run-up to polling day to show the government was making a difference to people’s lives

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    Rishi Sunak: general election result is not a foregone conclusion – video

  • Voter ID has a role to play in free and fair elections

  • General election result is not a foregone conclusion, Sunak says

  • Could there really be a hung parliament at the next UK general election?

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