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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’

  • Spectators with umbrellas at Wimbledon

    Heavy rain could disrupt Sunday’s Wimbledon and British Grand Prix

    Met Office warns showers and temperatures below average set to continue all weekend in UK
  • 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

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

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

  • ‘Blue wall’ of Tory seats collapsed because of green issues, say Greenpeace

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

  • Four people arrested at pro-Palestinian march in London

  • 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

UK politics

  • 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’

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

    • Defeated Joanna Cherry says battered SNP’s ‘ship has gone down’

    • Five key workers on how Labour can fix Britain, from the NHS to prisons

    • Call me Keir: PM happy to be informal as he tackles first press questions

    • ‘I want Keir Starmer to have a sudden massive personality change’: gen Z on their hopes for a Labour government

    • How the left fared in the UK election and where they go from here

Analysis and explainers

  • Keir Starmer at lectern in wood-panelled room with two Union Flags in background

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

  • Prime minister Keir Starmer chairs the first meeting of his cabinet in 10 Downing Street on 6 July.

    What is on the immediate to-do list for six key new cabinet ministers?

  • Rishi Sunak graphics

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

  • Illustration of Keir Starmer with thumbs up, standing among cutouts of election images and policy words

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

Culture

  • Tubi UK service

    Can Murdoch’s Tubi repeat its US success as it launches in the UK?

  • Noel Gallagher at 2024’s Glastonbury festival.

    Noel Gallagher says Glastonbury is ‘a bit woke now’ and criticises political musicians

    Former Oasis guitarist describes festival, which has long championed political causes, as ‘kind of preachy and a bit virtue-signalling’
  • Beyoncé performs onstage wearing a bright pink dress as her hair is blown into the air

    Melodies in chart-topping music have become less complex, study finds

    Scientists say changes since 1950 could partly be due to new genres such as stadium rock, disco and hip-hop

  • Anglo-Saxons may have fought in northern Syrian wars, say experts

  • Chinese ‘broken pots’ found in Lincolnshire attic sell for £160,000

  • ‘A lot of stereotypes to break’: Children’s Inquiry musical explores life in care in Britain

  • Archaeological survey detects Roman villas and iron age farmsteads in Shropshire

Education

  • Jessica Baker with plaits and woolly hat

    Girl who died in Wirral school bus crash was wearing seatbelt, inquest hears

  • Police headshot of Rebecca Joynes

    Manchester teacher who groomed two boys jailed for six-and-a-half years

  • Goldsmiths building

    Goldsmiths ‘determined’ to close Black British literature course, critics say

  • Hippo with all four feet off ground running with a group of wildebeest in grassland

    Hippos might fly: UK research discovers animal can get airborne

Society

  • Keir Starmer behind lectern with thumb up and union flag in background speaks to press

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

  • Police line up Flat

    ‘It’s like watching a TV drama’: what happens when police go rogue – and get caught?

    • A smiling Wes Streeting walks to No 10 after the election result on Friday

      Wes Streeting says NHS is broken as he announces pay talks with junior doctors

    • Rishi Sunak outside No 10 Downing Street

      ‘Bittersweet’: south Asians in UK reflect on Rishi Sunak’s historic term as PM

    • A smiling Ed Davey

      Lib Dems to push for cross-party talks on tackling social care

Multimedia

  • 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

  • Labour leader makes introductory speech before chairing his first cabinet meeting in Downing Street

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    Keir Starmer chairs first cabinet meeting as prime minister – video

    • 'You must be exhausted': moment King Charles meets Keir Starmer at Buckingham Palace – video

    • Protesters interrupt Nigel Farage's first speech as MP in London – video

    • The day Starmer became PM: how Labour’s victory unfolded - video

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