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General election 2024

July 2026

  • Keir Starmer leaving the House of Commons after his last prime minister's questions on 15 July.

    The Guardian view on Keir Starmer’s farewell: a dignified departure and a necessary one

    Editorial: The outgoing prime minister was on good form during his sometimes emotional last PMQs. But Labour MPs were right that change was needed

May 2026

  • Sir Keir Starmer with his wife Victoria on the steps of 10 Downing Street after winning the 2024 election.

    Britain will be ungovernable until democratic consent is restored

  • Prime minister Keir Starmer gives a speech at Coin Street community centre in London on 11 May 2026.

    The Guardian view on Labour’s rebellion: Starmer faces a crisis of legitimacy

April 2026

  • Keir Starmer smiles as Scottish Labour MPs applaud him outside No 10 in Downing Street

    Politics Weekly UK
    Labour’s mistakes: is it too late to turn things around? – podcast

    Kiran Stacey talks to the political scientist Prof Robert Ford in part one of a special two-part interview
    Podcast30:56

February 2026

  • Morgan McSweeney pictured at last year’s Labour annual conference in Liverpool

    The Guardian view on Morgan McSweeney’s resignation: Sir Keir’s premiership is on the road to nowhere

    Editorial: The departure of the prime minister’s chief of staff signals the demise of the political project which put him in No 10. All bets are off now.

December 2025

  • Farage sat inside on bench with wood panelling wearing sunglasses wearing blue suit and tie

    Farage avoids police investigation over alleged electoral law breach

    Essex force says report is outside time limit for prosecution, while Electoral Commission says it has not found any undeclared spending
  • In a dark suit and light blue and white tie, flanked by two thin microphones, Nigel Farage speaks

    Nigel Farage told to ‘come out of hiding’ over alleged election overspending

    Labour chair urges Electoral Commission to investigate claims Reform leader spent too much in Clacton campaign
  • The Reform UK leader, Nigel Farage, eats a 99 Flake ice-cream while walking in Clacton-on-Sea in July

    Police look into claims Reform UK broke electoral law in Farage campaign

    Party denies councillor’s claim it falsely reported expenses during Farage’s run to become Clacton MP last year

November 2025

  • A pen with politicians inside

    ‘I thought the grownups were back in charge!’: John Crace on how Labour shattered his expectations

    After 14 years of Tory rule, the Guardian’s parliamentary sketch writer thought he had seen it all. Westminster would surely tick along nicely once Keir Starmer’s party took over. How wrong he was ...
  • John Harris

    double quotation markWelcome to 21st-century politics: a bitter revolt against power that will consume Labour and the Tories

    John Harris
    A mood of turbulence and insurgency against the two main parties has been building for years, says Guardian columnist John Harris
  • Zohran Mamdani rallies his supporters on the last night before election day in Astoria, Queens.

    Democrats fight to rebuild in key state races on election day

    With polls showing signs of recovery after a popularity slump, Tuesday’s results will test whether the party can regain voters’ trust

September 2025

  • Rafael Behr

    double quotation markStarmer should beware: in this volatile age, no majority and no leader is secure for long

    Rafael Behr
    Labour’s massive election victory already feels long ago. The PM needs to build a new electoral alliance – and quickly, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

July 2025

  • Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana at a protest against the then Conservative government’s police, crime, sentencing and courts bill on 3 April 2021.

    Corbyn’s new party and the menace of populism

    Letters: The new party should agree a pact with the Greens so as not to split the leftwing vote, says Patrick Cosgrove, while Dr Chris Morris reminds us of Corbyn’s previous electoral support. Plus letters from Ross Armstrong, Pamela Hope and Sushila Dhall
  • Members of Reform, including Richard Tice and Nigel Farage, stand in front of a campaign poster

    Reform spent £350 on champagne at luxury lunch, election spending figures show

    Other expenditures include £989 stay at London hotel but party sources say costs not incurred by Nigel Farage
  • Martin Kettle

    Starmer: one year on
    double quotation markFor all the errors and crises, the blight on Starmer’s first year is still the lack of vision

    Martin Kettle
    Prime ministers have recovered from bad starts. But unless Starmer can articulate an idea of the Britain he wants, the public – and his party – may desert him, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

June 2025

  • People sorting election ballots

    Report finds £2m of surplus UK general election funds ‘essentially disappeared’

  • Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and shadow Brexit secretary Keir Starmer during the 2019 election campaign.

    Factionalism played a role in Labour’s election defeat

February 2025

  • books opener

    Observer book of the week
    Get In by Patrick Maguire and Gabriel Pogrund review – behind the scenes with Morgan McSweeney, Labour’s arch strategist

  • A standing Nigel Farage speaking with a Reform logo in the background

    Reform UK can win scores of Labour seats in England and Wales, says study

January 2025

  • Richard Tice and Isabel Oakeshott in Skegness, and the skyline of Dubai, where Oakeshott now lives.

    Reform deputy leader Richard Tice splitting time between Skegness and Dubai after partner leaves UK

    MP says says he is totally committed to his constituency after Isabel Oakeshott moved to the Emirates
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