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General election
2024

4 July 2024

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Highlights

  • James Timpson

    Ministers
    Familiar faces but not all from politics: meet the surprise Labour ministers

  • The Commons chamber at the Palace of Westminster. London, where some Labour MPs will have to sit on Opposition benches in busy times.

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

  • Keir and Victoria Starmer outside No 10 Downing Street on Friday:

    Analysis
    Labour put ‘safe’ seats at risk to target marginals. It paid off – but there’s a cost

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

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

  • Jeremy Hunt and his family smiling outside Downing Street

    Jeremy Hunt’s children leave ‘sweet’ notes for Starmer’s son and daughter

    Prime minister says family ‘very pleased’ to receive letters from former chancellor’s children about life in Downing Street
  • Votes being counted in North West Norfolk

    Lowest turnout in UK general election since universal suffrage, report shows

  • Suella Braverman at the National Conservatism conference in Washington DC

    Braverman hits back at Badenoch over ‘public breakdown’ comments

  • The family are standing outside a house. De Chair, Crook and two of the children are peering round the house at at something out of shot. Rees-Mogg is holding the youngest child on his hip.

    Jacob Rees-Mogg and family to star in fly-on-the-wall documentary

  • Mark Matlock

    Reform UK under pressure to prove all its candidates were real people

  • Emily Thornberry giving a speech after being declared winner in Islington South and Finsbury on Friday.

    Emily Thornberry ‘sorry and surprised’ not to be given cabinet role by Starmer

In depth

  • Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner smile as they stand either side of Keir Mather.

    Fresh faces: meet the UK’s 10 MPs from generation Z

  • Nigel Farage

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

    • A woman pushing a pram looks at her phone next to a polling station

      Rise of smaller parties: key takeaways from voting patterns in UK election

    • Four men sit around a table in a social club

      ‘Nobody can fix the country’: voters in former Blair town sceptical of change

    • A man outside a pub in Barnsley with a St George’s Cross in the window

      ‘Everyone is fed up’: Reform sets sights on Labour stronghold Barnsley – but Farage still divides opinion

  • An advertising van for the Conservative party in Parliament Square in May.

    Tory tactics make this a rip-roaring election for the phrase ‘[citation needed]’

  • Rishi Sunak speaks at the D-Day 80th anniversary event in Normandy; soldiers in dress uniform are seen standing behind him.

    Sunak continues his fighting talk. At this stage it’s more of a surrender message

    Prime minister’s campaign has become the only spectacle less appealing than England at the Euros
  • Mel Stride leaving a building

    And it’s over to Mel Stride. Again. Where are all the other Tories? Ladbrokes?

    The work and pensions secretary’s colleagues must be trapped under something heavy because no one but Stride is pulling their weight
  • Graphic of people and places in UK

    Hope in short supply: what our election reporters found out as they travelled the UK

  • Nottingham East illustration

    ‘I don’t feel like your vote counts’: little faith in politics among young people of Nottingham

    Labour is almost certain to retain Nottingham East but many plan to stay away or spoil their ballot
  • Waveney Valley composite illustration

    Waveney Valley ought to be a Tory heartland. Could angry voters turn it Green?

    In a new constituency where the river ‘is our lifeblood’, people speak of being taken for granted by the Tories
  • Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer on the BBC prime ministerial debate.

    Is there truth in Rishi Sunak’s net zero attack on Labour?

  • Keir Starmer, John Swinney, Rishi Sunak and Ed Davey on s BBC Question Time Leaders' Special in York, England.

    The party leaders on NHS waiting lists and immigration targets

    Keir Starmer, John Swinney, Rishi Sunak and Ed Davey took questions from the public on Thursday. We examine their claims on hospital backlogs, Lib Dem policies and Brexit
  • Richard Tice and Nigel Farage at the manifesto launch

    Do Reform UK’s election claims on tax, immigration and environment add up?

    From economy to transport, health to housing, and immigration – how do the main pledges in party’s ‘contract’ with electorate stack up?

Opinion

  • John Crace

    Relax, Starmergeddon hasn’t happened. The grownups are in charge

    John Crace
  • Jeremy Corbyn

    People-power led to my re-election. It is the start of a new politics

    Jeremy Corbyn
    • Ellie Chowns

      The Green party won four seats when it should have been 40. Surely it’s clear that Britain needs electoral reform

      Ellie Chowns
    • Aditya Chakrabortty

      It was a landslide election but this much is clear: neither Labour nor the Tories stand on solid ground

      Aditya Chakrabortty
    • Zoe Williams

      Making Britain’s voting system fairer won’t enable parties like Reform – it’s the only way to challenge them

      Zoe Williams

Multimedia

  • Keir Starmer and his deputy met regional mayors on the Labour prime minister's fifth day in office

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    'I'm a great believer in devolution': Keir Starmer meets metro mayors – video

  • Keir Starmer holds his first press conference as UK PM

    Is Labour’s landslide win in the UK election a reason for hope? – Full Story podcast

  • The prime minister spoke alongside Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar as he arrived in Edinbirgh for a two-day trip to the devolved administrations of the UK

    1:04

    Starmer says Labour will 'deliver for Scotland' as he arrives in Edinburgh to begin UK tour – video

  • Speaking from No 10, Starmer said he would set off on Sunday to visit all four UK nations before attending the Nato summit in Washington

    Keir Starmer vows to focus on 'delivery and service' as he sets out first week as PM – video

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