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UK politics

  • Food items in a food bank

    How many people in the UK are in ‘hunger and hardship’?

  • Emma Pinchbeck

    Energy industry trade body chief to head UK’s climate watchdog

    Emma Pinchbeck will take over as chief executive of Climate Change Committee next month
  • A food bank worker carries a basket of tinned tomatoes

    More than 9 million Britons vulnerable to reliance on food banks, research finds

    One million more people are in what Trussell charity defines as ‘hunger and hardship’ than five years ago

  • Reeves to press ahead with plans to borrow billions for investment

  • Cleverly emerges as Tory leadership frontrunner after third round of voting

  • Cleverly, Badenoch and Jenrick stay in Tory leadership race as Tugendhat knocked out – as it happened

  • Plans to add VAT to private school fees won’t be delayed, says minister

  • UK immigration laws ‘cannot be uncoupled from racism’, say minority ethnic MPs

  • Go-Ahead transport group orders 1,200 ‘green buses’ from Wrightbus

  • Lower Thames Crossing decision delayed for seven months

  • Parties would have to justify House of Lords nominations under new rules

Opinion

  • John Crace

    Maybe after his book launch, Boris Johnson will leave us all alone

    John Crace
  • Marina Hyde

    Keir Starmer is an unforced error machine – have they tried turning him off and on again?

    Marina Hyde
  • Simon Jenkins

    Britain needs to abandon its delusions of empire – giving up the Chagos Islands is a good start

    Simon Jenkins
  • John Crace

    Suddenly, all MPs know where the Chagos Islands are and what’s best for them

    John Crace

  • The Guardian view on the Sue Gray debacle: changing faces will not be enough

  • The Guardian view on privatised care failures: a service crying out for change

  • Is the Sue Gray debacle another Hartlepool moment for Keir Starmer? Let’s hope so

    Rafael Behr

  • The government could win Britain’s trust back. MPs would just have to wear a uniform

    Zoe Williams

  • British Muslims deserve safety and belonging. War in Gaza has made us fear we’ll lose both

    Zara Mohammed

  • Labour must ensure benefits of future growth are shared equally across Britain

    Larry Elliott

  • How low will a Tory go in order to stand out?

    David Mitchell

  • After 100 days of mistakes, we need to hear Labour’s underlying philosophy

    Will Hutton

Features & Analysis

  • Keir Starmer and Sue Gray.

    Scapegoat Sue Gray’s exit leaves Starmer’s No 10 with nowhere to hide

  • Cartoon of Boris Johnson with a long Pinocchio nose poking through his own memoir

    ‘If I have a fault, it’s that I’m too honest’ – Boris Johnson’s Unleashed, digested by John Crace

  • People walk past Birmingham City Council House, a Victorian-era domed building

    ‘A shattering effect’: Birmingham youth services face huge cuts

  • Sue Gray

    Once Sue Gray became the story, it was clear she had to 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.

Listen on:

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Cartoons

  • Martin Rowson on the Conservative party leadership contest – cartoon

    Martin Rowson on the Conservative party leadership contest – cartoon

  • Stephen Lillie on Sue Gray’s exit and Labour’s game of political chess – cartoon

    Stephen Lillie on Sue Gray’s exit and Labour’s game of political chess – cartoon

    The prime minister is having to reshuffle his top team after the departure of his embattled chief of staff
  • Ella Baron on the Israel-Gaza war one year on, and what the future could be – cartoon

    Ella Baron on the Israel-Gaza war one year on, and what the future could be – cartoon

    On the anniversary of 7 October, is there any hope of peace for the peoples of Israel, Gaza and Lebanon?

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