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  • Claire Coutinho

    Tory former energy secretary facing conflict of interest claim over JCB owner links

  • Rachel Reeves

    We will fight Trump’s plans to slap tariffs on the UK – Rachel Reeves

    The chancellor will make the case for free trade as Labour is warned that it must choose between the United States and the European Union
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    Anas Sarwar aide Kate Watson becomes Scottish Labour’s general secretary

    Former general election candidate will oversee party’s administration and sit on governing executive committee

  • NHS in ‘last-chance saloon’, says former health secretary Alan Milburn

  • Woman who fell to her death from Hackney council flat ‘was trying to fix drainpipe’

  • Boost UK defence spending to win Trump’s support, former navy chief urges Starmer

  • UK momentum on Ukraine has dropped under Labour, Ben Wallace says

  • English councils free to adopt four-day week after Labour drops Tory concerns

  • First recipients of Elizabeth Emblem for those who died in line of duty revealed

  • NHS patients dying because of problems sharing medical records, coroners warn

  • Ed Davey urges Starmer to ‘Trump-proof’ UK with closer European ties

Opinion

  • Appointment and dismissal of ministers of the Federal Government, Berlin, Berlin, Germany - 07 Nov 2024<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by snapshot-photography/F Boillot/REX/Shutterstock (14880261h) Former Federal Minister of Finance Christian Lindner and former Minister of Justice Marco Buschmann at the dismissal by the Federal President in Schloss Bellevue in Berlin. / Former Federal Minister of Finance Christian Lindner and former Minister of Justice Marco Buschmann at the dismissal by the Federal President at Bellevue Palace in Berlin. Appointment and dismissal of ministers of the Federal Government, Berlin, Berlin, Germany - 07 Nov 2024

    In an increasingly uncertain world, we Europeans must be bold and build hope

    Stella Creasy and Sandro Gozi
  • A group of children sitting down in a school hall during a educational assembly.

    The Guardian view on Bridget Phillipson’s sound advice: schools should focus on belonging

  • Guy Singh-Watson

    I’m a farmer – and I’m glad to see tax loopholes closing for cynical investor landowners

    Guy Singh-Watson
  • Gaby Hinsliff

    It is galling to see Starmer ingratiate himself with Trump – but it would be horribly negligent if he didn’t

    Gaby Hinsliff

  • The Guardian view on Sir Keir Starmer’s ministerial code: overdue and underwhelming

  • Congratulations, your serene highness: Starmer, Farage and Lammy call Trump

    John Crace

  • It’s OK to feel despair at Trump’s victory. The important thing is not to give up

    Polly Toynbee

  • If I were a cautious, centre-left prime minister, Trump’s victory would have me worried

    Andy Beckett

  • Hypocrisy, student politics and scoring cheap points: Kemi gets to work at PMQs

    John Crace

  • Britain cries out for new economics. Labour has given it repackaged Tory ideas

    David Edgerton

  • Kemi gaslights UK with her shadow cabinet while having a laugh

    John Crace

  • The Guardian view on Labour’s 2030 clean energy target: Britain should go for it

Features & Analysis

  • Donald Trump watches Nigel Farage speak at a rally in 2020 in front of a sign reading "Fighting for the American dream"

    Don’t fall into ‘populist trap’ of backing Trump, Badenoch warned

  • Donald Trump wearing a red Maga cap reflected in glass

    ‘Tariff man’ Trump puts Britain in firing line of new global trade war

  • Nigel Farage being interviewed: he sits in front of a blue screen covered in Reform UK logos which have the party's name set within an arrow that points to the right

    Labour lacks strategy to tackle Farage as Reform UK sets sights on Senedd seats

  • Kemi Badenoch in the House of Commons

    ‘I won’t be dancing in the streets’: views on Tories’ first black leader

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

  • An unconscious Liberty with her crown smashed is dragged by the scruff of the neck by a tiny-fingered orange hand and huge black-suited arm into the shadows.

    Chris Riddell on the fate of Liberty after the election of Donald Trump – cartoon

  • Martin Rowson on what Trump’s victory will mean for the environment – cartoon

    Martin Rowson on what Trump’s victory will mean for the environment – cartoon

    The election of a ‘climate denier’ poses ‘a major threat to the planet’, environmentalists say
  • Ben Jennings on Trump’s victory and a bleak outlook for the planet – cartoon

    Ben Jennings on Trump’s victory and a bleak outlook for the planet – cartoon

    The president-elect has pledged to row back on US climate commitments and ‘drill, drill, drill’

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