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  • Rachel Reeves

    Rachel Reeves becomes UK’s first female chancellor; former Tory chair says party faces ‘oblivion’ – as it happened

  • Graphic depicting Labour cabinet members as the heads on a bunch of flowers against a red background

    Who are the new Labour cabinet?

    With many MPs who served Blair and Brown, Starmer’s team is one of the most experienced in recent times
  • Rachel Reeves

    Keir Starmer’s cabinet will have most female ministers in history

    It will, however, only have three from minority ethnic backgrounds despite a record 89 being elected to parliament

  • Keir Starmer enters No 10 vowing to rebuild Britain ‘brick by brick’

  • ‘Everything has been so tribal’: Glasgow reflects on Labour’s clean sweep

  • Labour wins a landslide: Is this a new dawn? Politics Weekly UK - podcast

  • Hecklers disrupt Reform UK event as Nigel Farage vows to ‘come after’ Labour

  • UK general election results in full: Labour wins in landslide

  • Lib Dems to push for cross-party talks on tackling social care

  • Labour bounceback, Tory collapse: five key takeaways from the general election

  • Tory leadership contenders prepare for quick contest amid Reform fears

Opinion

  • Newly elected British prime minister Keir Starmer addresses the nation outside 10 Downing Street.

    How Keir Starmer can learn from Anthony Albanese’s missteps as he tries to rebuild Britain

    Marc Stears
  • Jonathan Freedland

    He won the votes, now Starmer just needs to win over the people

    Jonathan Freedland
  • Nils Pratley

    Houses and pylons: Labour’s biggest business challenges

    Nils Pratley
  • Sir Keir Starmer seen from behind, facing the much smaller faces of a range of British political figures

    The Guardian view on Labour’s landslide: becoming the change the country needs

  • Starmer has promised big – now he must be bold and move quickly. Here’s how he should start

    Gaby Hinsliff

  • A triumphant Labour in Westminster, a humiliated SNP in Holyrood: Scotland is entering interesting times

    Rory Scothorne

  • The 2024 election results are among the most bizarre in British history – and the future could be stranger still

    Lewis Baston

  • Rishi Sunak departs with a brief nod to his achievements – mostly imagined

    John Crace

  • Hop, skip, jump and enchant the electorate – the Ed Davey doctrine was a stroke of genius

    Nels Abbey

  • Sunak axed, the cast eviscerated: at last, it’s the Tories’ season finale

    Marina Hyde

  • He’s beaten and humiliated, but Rishi Sunak has one final job to do – for party and country

    Simon Jenkins

  • Digested week: Biden’s travails and why the UK election isn’t big news in the US

    Emma Brockes

Features & Analysis

  • Keir Starmer speaking outside 10 Downing Street

    Keir Starmer: Britain’s new leader who takes politics seriously

  • Composite image showing the four Tories

    Who could be next Tory leader? Nine possible candidates – from centrist to rightwing

  • Illustration of Keir Starmer with thumbs up, standing among cutouts of election images and policy words

    Labour convinced voters it was the safest choice – but now it has to govern with competence

  • An elderly couple.

    ‘God help us’: mixed feelings as nine seats in Kent go Labour

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

  • Martin Rowson on Labour’s general election landslide – cartoon

    Martin Rowson on Labour’s general election landslide – cartoon

  • Ben Jennings on Britain’s day at the polls – cartoon

    Ben Jennings on Britain’s day at the polls – cartoon

    Millions of Britons have been voting in the first general election since 2019
  • Ben Jennings on the end of 14 years of dysfunctional Tory rule – cartoon

    Ben Jennings on the end of 14 years of dysfunctional Tory rule – cartoon

    Britain goes to the polls on Thursday and the outlook is bleak for the Conservatives

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