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House of Commons

July 2024

  • Simon Jenkins

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

    Simon Jenkins
    With just one change, we could have more independent voices in the Commons. We are going to need them, says Guardian columnist 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

24 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
  • Martin Rowson on the great pre-election ‘wash-up’ – cartoon

    Guardian Opinion cartoon
    Martin Rowson on the great pre-election ‘wash-up’ – cartoon

    The prorogation of parliament yesterday for the campaign period has meant abandoning key pieces of government legislation
  • Westminster official in role of parliament's Black Rod

    Tory MPs mull over their fate after Rishi Sunak’s election call

    Gloom, resignation, but also a show of fighting spirit as PM’s troops weigh up the odds on re-election

23 May 2024

  • Penny Mordaunt, leader of the Commons

    Lost laws: which legislation will slip through the net before the UK election?

    While some bills will be dealt with swiftly in the ‘wash-up’ period in parliament, others could fall by the wayside
  • Rishi Sunak outside No 10

    The Guardian view on the end of a parliament: five years in which Britain’s leaders showed they were not up to the job

    Editorial: Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak have all provided object lessons in how not to govern wisely or well
  • Rishi Sunak speaks with brewery workers during a visit to the Vale of Glamorgan Brewery in Barry, south Wales,

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Labour says early general election leaves many government commitments ‘in the bin’ – as it happened

    Bills, including smoking ban for people born after 2009, unlikely to become law before 4 July vote

22 May 2024

  • Rishi Sunak attends a Conservative party rally

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Sunak says Labour taking victory for granted as Starmer calls on voters to ‘stop the chaos’ – as it happened

    Prime minister announces early summer election with date putting parties on campaign trail for six weeks
  • Big Ben and Houses of Parliament in London

    Can Labour bring Britain the major reset we need?

    Letters: Readers respond to an article by Martin Kettle on Britain’s democracy and governance
  • Craig Mackinlay is applauded by members of parliament.

    MP Craig Mackinlay returns to Commons after having hands and feet amputated

    Sunak and Starmer pay tribute to South Thanet MP as he returns to chamber after sepsis ordeal

20 May 2024

  • A person wearing a T-shirt reading ‘They have blood on their hands’ stands outside Westminster, London, on 20 May 2024

    The Guardian view on the infected blood report: the disaster’s victims have at last been heard

  • Jennifer Nadel

    I spoke to MPs about their mental health. What I found should shock us all

    Jennifer Nadel

16 May 2024

  • Closeup of Theresa May wearing green against a dark background

    May warns against rising populism – and says Farage is no Tory

  • Martin Kettle

    Our democracy desperately needs a reset – and, behind the scenes, that’s the plan

    Martin Kettle

15 May 2024

  • Esther McVey had said civil servants should leave their political views ‘at the building entrance’.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    UK politics: I never called for rainbow lanyard ban, claims Esther McVey – as it happened

  • John Crace

    The politics sketch
    The end is nigh and Labour MPs just want to have fun. At the Tories’ expense

    John Crace

13 May 2024

  • General views of the Palace of Westminster.

    MPs arrested for sexual offences face bans from parliamentary estate

    Labour and Conservatives say ‘long overdue’ measures ‘improve standards of behaviour and safeguarding’
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