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General elections

  • Yvette Cooper walking outside

    Yvette Cooper says ‘disgraceful scenes’ of election candidate abuse must end

  • The shadow cabinet in 2006, with David Lidington front row, second left, front rowstand outside at the Racquet Club in Liverpool, Monday March 6, 2006, after a meeting. They are: (front L to R) Theresa May, David Lidington, Theresa Villiers, David Cameron, William Hague, Cheryl Gillan, Peter Ainsworth Caroline Spelman, (middle L to R) Oliver Letwin, Alan Duncan, Andrew Mitchell, David Willetts, Andrew Lansley, (back L to R) David Davis, Patrick McLoughlin, George Osborne, David Mundell, Chris Grayling, Phllip Hammond, Francis Maude, and Oliver Heald. See PA Story POLITICS Tories. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Photo credit should read: Andrew Parsons/Pool/PA.

    I suffered 13 years in opposition – here’s my advice to my despairing fellow Tories

    David Lidington
  • Lord Walney

    UK government adviser warns assassination attempts becoming more likely

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

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

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

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

  • A polling station sign

    Why did the election polls overstate Labour’s lead?

  • Jeremy Hunt and his family smiling outside Downing Street

    Jeremy Hunt’s children leave ‘sweet’ notes for Starmer’s son and daughter

  • John Crace

    Digested week
    Relax, Starmergeddon hasn’t happened. The grownups are in charge

    John Crace
  • Jeremy Corbyn

    People-power led to my re-election. It is the start of a new politics

    Jeremy Corbyn
  • Votes being counted in North West Norfolk

    Lowest turnout in UK general election since universal suffrage, report shows

  • Ellie Chowns

    The Green party won four seats when it should have been 40. Surely it’s clear that Britain needs electoral reform

    Ellie Chowns
    Yes, proportional representation would help all smaller parties, including Reform UK, but it’s necessary to restore faith in politics, says Green party MP Ellie Chowns
  • Suella Braverman at the National Conservatism conference in Washington DC

    Braverman hits back at Badenoch over ‘public breakdown’ comments

  • The Cover of the 12 July Guardian Weekly

    Inside Guardian Weekly
    Labour landslide: inside the 12 July Guardian Weekly

  • Boris Johnson waving on the steps of 10 Downing Street, on 24 July 2019 after becoming prime minister.

    What Labour should do now to clean up politics and restore public trust

  • A voter carrying his passport along with his poll card, as he walks to a polling station

    The Tories’ voter ID rules are anti-democratic. Labour must scrap them

  • A postal worker on a delivery round in Summerseat, Greater Manchester

    Brief letters
    Up with the lark, but not by choice

    Brief letters: Early risers | Genetic chronotypes | Reform candidates | Rudderless Tories | Constituency wallchart
  • Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner smile as they stand either side of Keir Mather.

    Fresh faces: meet the UK’s 10 MPs from generation Z

    Among those heading to Westminster are the first MPs to have been born in the 2000s
  • Timothy Garton Ash

    Britain is suddenly a beacon of stability in Europe – now it’s France that’s in turmoil

    Timothy Garton Ash
    Sunday’s surprising election result prompted an international sigh of relief, but Emmanuel Macron’s gamble has weakened him and Europe, says Guardian columnist Timothy Garton Ash
  • Mark Matlock

    Reform UK under pressure to prove all its candidates were real people

  • Keir Starmer hosts his first Cabinet at 10 Downing Street

    Positivity and pride in Britain’s new political era

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