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  • Keir Starmer

    Keir Starmer pays back £6,000 worth of gifts and hospitality

  • Keir Starmer and his wife Victoria watching Taylor Swift at Wembley Stadium on 21 June 2024,

    Keir Starmer tells Brussels press conference it was ‘right’ for him to repay £6,000 worth of gifts – as it happened

    Announcement that PM is returning gifts comes after news Labour peer Lord Alli is under investigation by Lords commissioner
  • Tory leadership candidates Kemi Badenoch, Robert Jenrick, James Cleverly and Tom Tugendhat on stage

    Bad jokes, war stories and rehashed rhetoric: key takeaways from the Tory leadership speeches

    The four Conservative candidates set out their visions for the party after its worst-ever general election defeat

  • Labour donor Waheed Alli under Lords investigation over register of interests

  • Tory leadership contenders square off at conference – Politics Weekly UK

  • Head of civil service Simon Case rejoins Garrick Club six months after quitting it

  • Cleverly’s leadership bid gathers pace as he calls on Tories to be ‘more normal’

  • Post office operators will not all get payouts by March deadline, says minister

  • British forces involved in defending Israel from Iranian attack, says Healey

  • EU pushes Keir Starmer to open door to youth mobility scheme as PM heads to Brussels

  • Some civil servants so bad they should be in prison, says Kemi Badenoch

Opinion

  • Keir Starmer and the European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen shake hands in Brussels on Wednesday.

    The Guardian view on resetting UK-EU relations: more candour and courage required

  • John Crace

    The Tories’ Fearless Four battle on to the end. Alas, that’s just the beginning

    John Crace
  • Robert Jenrick, James Cleverly, Tom Tugendhat, Kemi Badenoch.

    After the ‘Tory idol’ speeches, who most looks like a leader in waiting? Our panel passes judgment

    John Harris, Katy Balls, Sahil Dutta, Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones and John Redwood
  • Lucy Thomas

    I treat the very sick – and I urge politicians to vote against the deeply worrying assisted dying bill

    Lucy Thomas

  • Badenoch, Cleverly, Jenrick, Tugendhat: four ways for the Tories to reach the same wilderness

    Rafael Behr

  • Is this the Tory leadership race or the seventh circle of hell?

    John Crace

  • Martin Rowson on the Conservative party conference – cartoon

  • Former PMs have a wealth of experience. Why not put some on the Tory leadership ballot?

    Simon Jenkins

  • Rosie Duffield’s savage departure raises difficult questions for Keir Starmer. He’d be foolish to ignore them

    Gaby Hinsliff

  • Call this a party conference? It’s more like a weird Tory festival of mass delusion

    Polly Toynbee

  • The Guardian view on the Tory leadership contest: stuck in the past, not focused on the future

  • Please stop Liz Truss making public appearances. Not for our benefit, for hers

    John Crace

Features & Analysis

  • 30//09/2024. Canterbury. Vox pop of MP Rosie Duffield's constituents. Nick and Kay Andrews .Photo Sean Smith

    ‘She shouts very loudly’: opinion on Rosie Duffield divided in her constituency

  • Kemi Badenoch raises her hands while speaking during a session at the Conservative party conference

    Right is left and left is right: Kemi Badenoch gets cryptic in Tory pamphlet

  • Robert Jenrick turns his head to look at Kemi Badenoch, who returns his gaze, as they sit in chairs in the TV studio

    As rumours grow of a stop Badenoch campaign, Tories cannot risk a stitch-up

  • Robert Jenrick

    From leadership drama to ideological debate: what to look out for at Conservative party conference

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

  • Ben Jennings cartoon of the world balanced on the tip of a missile

    Ben Jennings on the conflict in the Middle East – cartoon

  • Ben Jennings on Kemi Badenoch’s views on maternity pay – cartoon

    Ben Jennings on Kemi Badenoch’s views on maternity pay – cartoon

    The Conservative party leadership hopeful has claimed that maternity pay is ‘excessive’
  • Nicola Jennings on Boris Johnson stealing the limelight at the Tories’ conference – cartoon

    Nicola Jennings on Boris Johnson stealing the limelight at the Tories’ conference – cartoon

    The former prime minister has chosen the platform of his party’s annual gathering to launch his new memoir

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