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Toby Helm

Toby Helm is the Observer's political editor

July 2024

  • Rachel Reeves, in a slightly ruffle-topped shirt under a blazer, seated next to a woman and three men at a table in front of a Union Jack flag, a Welsh flag and three paintings on a wooden wall, leans forward a little, laughing

    Wealth taxes could raise £10bn to help plug Tory budget hole, say economists

  • Declared and potential Conservative leadership contenders Suella Braverman, Robert Jenrick, Priti Patel, James Cleverly, Kemi Badenoch and Tom Tugendhat.

    Patel accuses rivals of waging ‘personal vendettas’ as she launches Tory leadership bid

  • Angela Rayner wearing a hard hat and a his-vis jacket

    Angela Rayner unveils sweeping plans to tackle ‘scandal’ of Tory housing legacy

  • Bridget Phillipson in her new departmental office.

    Labour’s Bridget Phillipson: ‘I will help working-class pupils defy the odds to succeed – just as I did’

  • Labour makes working-class children key to schools reform

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

  • ‘Britain is back’: Keir Starmer promises UK will be at the heart of Europe

  • Labour’s ‘rooftop revolution’ to deliver solar power to millions of UK homes

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

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

  • ‘It was surreal’: Labour’s dizzying transition to power, from polls to the palace

June 2024

  • The Labour candidate for Shoreham, Tom Rutland talking to Wendy Aldrich, a constituent, last week.

    ‘People assume we will win by an absolute mile’: Labour fears voter complacency

  • Leader of Reform UK Nigel Farage

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    General election – as it happened: Farage says he is boycotting BBC as more Reform candidates dropped over past comments

  • Keir Starmer standing with his right hand stretched out

    Starmer’s promise to voters: ‘I will relight the fire of optimism’ in Britain

  • David Cameron pointing up at something while talking to Queen Elizabeth II

    A constitutional ‘pickle’: how Cameron’s election victory split Buckingham Palace and No 10

  • After the vote: what would happen in the first days of a Starmer government?

  • ‘It will be a very big moment’: can Labour revisit Brexit – and heal bitter divisions with Europe?

  • Tory stumbles drive Labour to near-record 20-point poll lead

  • Starmer’s growth plan ‘doomed’ without access to EU markets, warn economists

  • Labour and Tories would ‘both leave NHS worse off than under austerity’

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