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  • A man walking past an election campaign banner featuring an image of independent candidate Shockat Adam

    Independent Muslim who beat Labour in Leicester says victory was not ‘sectarian’

  • Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaks during a press conference

    Voter turnout at general election was lowest since 2001 – politics live as it happened

    Keir Starmer ‘restless for change’ as he vows to take action on prisons on first full day as PM
  • Keir Starmer chairs his debut cabinet meeting during his first full day as prime minister.

    Starmer tells his cabinet: now it’s time to deliver on our promises

    PM pledges swift action on NHS and prisons, setting out agenda to reform public services and rebuild international relations

  • Starmer installs non-political ministers in ‘government of all the talents’

  • David Lammy faces a world in turmoil: five key concerns for foreign secretary

  • Labour’s Sam Carling, 22, is first MP to be born in 21st century

  • Resist ‘idiotic’ move to the right in leadership race, top Tories urge

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

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

  • 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

Opinion

  • General Election 2024<br>File photo dated 06/02/24 of former prime minister Liz Truss during the launch of the Popular Conservatism movement at the Emmanuel Centre in central London Issue date: Friday July 5, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story POLITICS ElectionPrimeMinisters. Photo credit should read: Victoria Jones/PA Wire

    No Boris Johnson, no deals with Nigel Farage: it’s time for the Tories to get serious

    Paul Goodman
  • Damian Green walking through a conference hall, with a lanyard around his neck.

    As a former minister, I have seven lessons for the Tories if we want to regain power

    Damian Green
  • Keir Starmer will host the European Political Community summit at Blenheim Palace this month.

    In a fragile and dangerous era, strengthening ties with Europe is Britain’s most urgent challenge

    Kim Darroch
  • Keir Starmer outside No 10

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

    Marie

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

    Isabel Brooks

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

    Andy Beckett

  • 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

Features & Analysis

  • Keir Starmer, the new prime minister, walking up the stairs at 10 Downing Street on Saturday.

    ‘It was surreal’: Labour’s dizzying transition to power, from polls to the palace

  • David Lammy

    David Lammy: ‘Britain has to start reconnecting with a dangerous, divided world’

  • Keir Starmer meets school children at Haverstock School in Chalk Farm, north London.

    Uncool Britannia? How Britain might feel with the court of Sir Keir

  • Darren Grimes on GB News, election night, 5 July 2024.

    ‘Honeymoon will be very, very short’: rightwing media is set to turn on Starmer

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

  • Chris Riddell illustration of Keir Starmer's new broom.

    Chris Riddell on Keir Starmer’s new broom – cartoon

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

    Martin Rowson on Labour’s general election landslide – cartoon

    Keir Starmer has led his party to a crushing victory, with the Conservatives left in disarray
  • 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

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