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Remembrance Day

12 November 2023

  • Rishi Sunak and former prime ministers Liz Truss, Boris Johnson, Theresa May, David Cameron, Gordon Brown, Tony Blair and John Major at the Cenotaph.

    Rishi Sunak joined by former PMs at Cenotaph for Remembrance Sunday

    Prime minister’s beleaguered home secretary, Suella Braverman, also attends ceremony led by King Charles
  • Illustration by David Foldvari of hijacked poppies representing different political causes.

    I’m not sure I feel comfortable pinning a poppy to my cagoule this year

    Stewart Lee
    The far right have coopted the flower for their own cynical ends, but I still want to remember the war dead
  • A Sikh regiment of the Indian army on the march in France in 1914.

    The rituals of Poppy Day are a vital antidote to extreme voices in British society

    Sunder Katwala
    As we remember the armistice, let’s celebrate contributions from the Commonwealth

11 November 2023

  • A pro-Palestinian protest on Park Lane in London on Saturday, marching from Hyde Park to the US embassy in Vauxhall.

    Hundreds of thousands rally for Gaza in London as police arrest far-right protesters

    Huge attendance at march will add to pressure on Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer to back calls for ceasefire in Middle East conflict
  • A group of men standing at the side of a road in central London making aggressive gestures.

    Far-right ‘defends’ the Cenotaph to the echo of home secretary’s words

    Tension built all week about the Gaza march on Armistice Day. In the end, the far-right sparked violence. Then huge peaceful crowds surged through London
  • Royal British Legion poppy sellers look on in the midst of a pro-Palestine demonstration inside Charing Cross train station

    UK police dismiss ‘misleading’ media reports of attacks on poppy sellers

    Royal British Legion says public supported appeal as usual with no evidence volunteers were targeted

10 November 2023

  • The National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine rehearses at the Forum in Bath.

    Let’s play for peace on Remembrance Sunday

  • Sadiq Khan

    Faked audio of Sadiq Khan dismissing Armistice Day shared among far-right groups

  • Home secretary Suella Braverman leaving her home this morning as pressure mounts for her to be sacked.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Suella Braverman’s fate remains unclear as No 10 says internal inquiry ongoing – as it happpened

  • Australian prime minister Paul Keating delivers the eulogy to the unknown Australian soldier

    ‘He is one of us’: 30 years on, Paul Keating’s eulogy to the unknown Australian soldier endures

  • On Remembrance Day, Australia’s leaders are failing to learn from history

    Paul Daley

  • In remembrance of our fallen heroes, brave Suella Braverman goes over the top

    Marina Hyde

9 November 2023

  • Suella Braverman arriving in Downing Street to attend a cabinet meeting in September.

    The Guardian view on Suella Braverman: a home secretary who craves disorder

    Editorial: While others try to ensure calm and mutual respect, this ambitious minister is trying to inflame the public mood
  • Gaby Hinsliff

    A home secretary actively undermining public order feels like a dangerous step into Trump territory

    Gaby Hinsliff
    Suella Braverman is trying to import the worst of the US right. This inflammatory rhetoric has no place in Britain, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
  • Suella Braverman.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    No 10 still considering whether Braverman will face punishment for anti-Met police article – as it happened

    Home secretary accused force of being biased against rightwing protesters and favouring groups such as Palestine Solidarity Campaign

8 November 2023

  • Rishi Sunak during a school visit in Boston, Lincolnshire on 8 November.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Rishi Sunak says pro-Palestine march on Saturday is ‘proof of UK’s commitment to freedom’ – as it happened

    Prime minister says he finds prospect of march ‘disrespectful’ but says freedom includes ‘right to peacefully protest’
  • Owen Jones

    Protesting on Armistice Day isn’t a disgrace. Vilifying those who stand up for peace is

    Owen Jones
    It is misguided to claim that marching to stop a war on a day that marks the end of another war is disrespectful, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
  • People protest against the bombing of Gaza near Westminster, in London.

    First Edition newsletter
    Wednesday briefing: Should a pro-Palestine march on Armistice Day be banned?

    In today’s newsletter: The Metropolitan police has resisted calls to ban a march in support of a ceasefire in Gaza – but that may not be the end of the story

7 November 2023

  • Pro-Palestine protesters in central London

    Amnesty urges police not to ban pro-Palestinian march in London

    Human rights body calls on Met not to bow to ‘political pressure’ over planned protest on Armistice Day

6 November 2023

  • Passengers at Brighton Station.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    No 10 says 40% of trains must always run under new laws to limit impact of strikes to be brought in by Christmas – as it happened

    Government aiming to limit rights of railway workers, ambulance staff and border officials to go on strike
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