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  • (Left to right): Keir Starmer, Lisa Nandy, Prince George and the Prince of Wales look dejected in the stands after England lost to Spain in the Euro 2024 final

    Labour will be ‘more Southgate, less Gove’ in trying to end division, says Nandy

  • Home Office sign.

    ‘Sheer torment’: Home Office apologises after asylum approvals retracted

    Some asylum seekers told to cut up residence permits after believing they had been granted leave to remain
  • Angela Rayner with supporters at a Labour campaign rally.

    Voters of all parties back Labour’s plans to boost workers’ rights, poll shows

    Policies popular even among Tory and Reform voters as unions say pledges must be honoured in king’s speech

  • Ed Miliband to lead UK negotiations at Cop29 climate summit

  • Plan to combat police racism needs full support of home secretary, report says

  • Long delays to NHS care for children in England ‘creating forgotten generation’

  • ‘No place in our societies’: UK political figures condemn Trump shooting

  • Tees Valley mayor Ben Houchen warns against protracted Tory leadership race

  • David Lammy to call for Gaza ceasefire in talks with Benjamin Netanyahu

  • UK government adviser warns assassination attempts becoming more likely

  • UK government urged to offer ‘safe and legal’ route for asylum seekers as poll shows support

Opinion

  • Anne Owers

    Take it from a former prisons inspector: letting offenders out early won’t fix our broken system

    Anne Owers
  • Nesrine Malik

    Hidden behind the celebration of Labour’s ‘landslide’ win is a depressing disfranchisement

    Nesrine Malik
  • A mother and child walk up a street.

    The Guardian view on the two-child cap: scrap this nasty policy

  • Larry Elliott

    Labour should scrap two-child benefit cap sooner rather than later

    Larry Elliott

  • Labour can end austerity at a stroke – by taxing the rich and taxing them hard

    George Monbiot

  • The Tory gravy train’s left town – but it’s got all my best gags on board

    Stewart Lee

  • The rich were led to believe they were different. Those days are numbered

    Will Hutton

  • Humanity, empathy, keeping hope alive: Gareth Southgate has quietly led England to the brink of victory

    David Goldblatt

  • Why Labour wants to hang the Tory legacy around the Conservatives’ necks for years

    Andrew Rawnsley

  • Muslims aren’t single-issue voters. Gaza was a lightning rod for their disaffection

    Kenan Malik

  • Reducing Labour women to the sum of their outfits is suddenly all the rage

    Catherine Bennett

  • I’m a Muslim MP who rebelled on Gaza, but still I was barracked and intimidated

    Rupa Huq

Features & Analysis

  • Keir Starmer speaks at a Nato event.

    Starmer must use EPC forum to offer hopeful vision for Europe’s future

  • Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg speaks to the media after losing his seat.

    From Jacob Rees-Mogg to Jonathan Ashworth: unseated MPs recall best moments

  • Ed Davey, Nick Clegg and Jo Swinson on their way to a cabinet meeting in 2015.

    Ed Davey and former Lib Dem leaders face grilling at Horizon inquiry

  • Keir Stramer standing in the centre of the front row of a group of Labour MPs

    ‘A massive relief and a change of mood’: how did Keir Starmer’s first week in power go?

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

  • Ella Baron on Keir Starmer, England’s biggest fan – cartoon

    Ella Baron on Keir Starmer, England’s biggest fan – cartoon

  • Illustration of Britannia and a lion, hoping for an England win in Euro 2024

    Chris Riddell on how things are looking up for Britannia, on and off the pitch – cartoon

    With Keir Starmer in No 10, all that’s needed now is an England football win in Berlin
  • Martin Rowson on Joe Biden and Donald Trump’s race for the White House – cartoon

    Martin Rowson on Joe Biden and Donald Trump’s race for the White House – cartoon

    As Biden comes under increasing pressure from within the Democratic party, Trump remains bullish

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