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Scottish politics

5 July 2024

  • John Swinney stands at a lectern

    SNP leader says ‘soul searching’ needed after Labour landslide in Scotland

  • Anas Sarwar celebrates with Maureen Burke (in red) being hugged by woman

    Scottish Labour leader says Holyrood is next after inflicting heavy losses on SNP

4 July 2024

  • Phillipson reaches out to hug a woman at the announcement of her win.

    Exit poll shows Keir Starmer on course for landslide UK election victory

  • A design showing coloured dots, with different colours beneath them to represent tactical voting.

    UK elections: what is tactical voting and how does it work?

  • Graphical image of clock with ballot boxes as numbers

    What time will we know who won? Hour-by-hour guide to election night

  • Composite image of 10 downing street

    Did that really happen? 14 years of chaotic Tory government

3 July 2024

  • Keir Starmer speaks into a microphone. Onlookers hold aloft pink and purple placards that read: Change. Be part of it.'

    Keir Starmer hails ‘new age of hope’ as Rishi Sunak fears losing seat

  • Rishi Sunak during a visit to a primary school in Romsey, Hampshire.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    PM says he will take full responsibility for result after minister predicts Labour landslide – as it happened

2 July 2024

  • From left, local candidate Martin McCluskey and Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar wave to voters while on the Inverclyde coast

    A vote for Labour can turn tide against the far right, says Scottish leader

  • A brass sign reading Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office shows a reflection of a brick building.

    From conflict to the climate – what are the UK parties’ international plans?

1 July 2024

  • Flag-waving SNP supporters in Edinburgh

    A choice between SNP myths and pragmatism for voters in Scotland

  • An oil platform in the North Sea

    North Sea oil decline: ‘We can’t have a repeat of what happened to 80s miners’

  • John Swinney on the campaign trail at Portobello Beach and Promenade last week.

    Election fight between Labour and SNP is still on, says John Swinney

  • Sarwar and Starmer clapping

    Parties keen to capitalise on SNP woes in Scotland, but for different reasons

June 2024

  • An envelope containing a postal vote for the upcoming election is posted

    Scottish election officials doing ‘all we can’ amid postal vote delays

  • Nigel Farage

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Nigel Farage takes part in Question Time election special – as it happened

  • PM again declines to say whether he told Craig Williams in advance about his decision to hold the election in July

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Sunak cites ‘confidential’ inquiry as he refuses to answer questions over aide and election date bet – as it happened

  • Kemi Badenoch David Tennant

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    David Tennant should have been more respectful when criticising Badenoch over LGBT views, says Starmer – as it happened

  • How could I back anyone but the SNP and the bolshie, buoyant Scotland it stands for?

    Val McDermid

  • Reform on student fees and Labour on ‘fleeceholds’ – could we build a better Britain using party manifestos?

    Zoe Williams
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