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General election
2024

4 July 2024

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Highlights

  • James Timpson

    Ministers
    Familiar faces but not all from politics: meet the surprise Labour ministers

  • The Commons chamber at the Palace of Westminster. London, where some Labour MPs will have to sit on Opposition benches in busy times.

    Parliament
    Where will they all sit? Commons welcomes 334 rookie MPs in most diverse parliament

  • Keir and Victoria Starmer outside No 10 Downing Street on Friday:

    Analysis
    Labour put ‘safe’ seats at risk to target marginals. It paid off – but there’s a cost

  • Keir Starmer meets school children at Haverstock School in Chalk Farm, north London.

    Keir Starmer
    Uncool Britannia? How Britain might feel with the court of Sir Keir

Latest news

  • Gillian Keegan, Tobias Ellwood and Penny Mourdaunt

    Tories who lost seats at general election want formal role in leadership race

    Former MPs plan to return swiftly to parliament amid fears of a lurch to the right if Conservatives fail to explore reasons for defeat
  • A person leans against a phonebox while facing away from the camera

    ‘Despair and anger’: minority groups in Reform seats adjust to life after its election success

  • Yvette Cooper walking outside

    Yvette Cooper says ‘disgraceful scenes’ of election candidate abuse must end

  • Lord Walney

    UK government adviser warns assassination attempts becoming more likely

  • A polling station sign

    Why did the election polls overstate Labour’s lead?

  • Jeremy Hunt and his family smiling outside Downing Street

    Jeremy Hunt’s children leave ‘sweet’ notes for Starmer’s son and daughter

In depth

  • Britain's Conservative party opposition leader Rishi Sunak reacts during a debate in the House of Commons in London, on 17 July.

    The Conservative party faces an onerous task to rebuild itself, and every Tory must have a say

    Tobias Ellwood
  • Danny Sriskandarajah, British-Australian activist, born in Sri Lanka, who runs the UK thinktank the New Economics Foundation

    The radical who left Oxfam to fight for democracy: ‘Eight men have the same wealth as half the world. Where does this end?’

    • Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg speaks to the media after losing his seat.

      From Jacob Rees-Mogg to Jonathan Ashworth: unseated MPs recall best moments

    • Kenan Malik

      Muslims aren’t single-issue voters. Gaza was a lightning rod for their disaffection

      Kenan Malik
    • Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner smile as they stand either side of Keir Mather.

      Fresh faces: meet the UK’s 10 MPs from generation Z

Marina Hyde’s campaign trail

  • An advertising van for the Conservative party in Parliament Square in May.

    Tory tactics make this a rip-roaring election for the phrase ‘[citation needed]’

  • Rishi Sunak speaks at the D-Day 80th anniversary event in Normandy; soldiers in dress uniform are seen standing behind him.

    Sunak continues his fighting talk. At this stage it’s more of a surrender message

    Prime minister’s campaign has become the only spectacle less appealing than England at the Euros
  • Mel Stride leaving a building

    And it’s over to Mel Stride. Again. Where are all the other Tories? Ladbrokes?

    The work and pensions secretary’s colleagues must be trapped under something heavy because no one but Stride is pulling their weight

Path to power

  • Graphic of people and places in UK

    Hope in short supply: what our election reporters found out as they travelled the UK

  • Nottingham East illustration

    ‘I don’t feel like your vote counts’: little faith in politics among young people of Nottingham

    Labour is almost certain to retain Nottingham East but many plan to stay away or spoil their ballot
  • Waveney Valley composite illustration

    Waveney Valley ought to be a Tory heartland. Could angry voters turn it Green?

    In a new constituency where the river ‘is our lifeblood’, people speak of being taken for granted by the Tories

Reality check

  • Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer on the BBC prime ministerial debate.

    Is there truth in Rishi Sunak’s net zero attack on Labour?

  • Keir Starmer, John Swinney, Rishi Sunak and Ed Davey on s BBC Question Time Leaders' Special in York, England.

    The party leaders on NHS waiting lists and immigration targets

    Keir Starmer, John Swinney, Rishi Sunak and Ed Davey took questions from the public on Thursday. We examine their claims on hospital backlogs, Lib Dem policies and Brexit
  • Richard Tice and Nigel Farage at the manifesto launch

    Do Reform UK’s election claims on tax, immigration and environment add up?

    From economy to transport, health to housing, and immigration – how do the main pledges in party’s ‘contract’ with electorate stack up?

Opinion

  • Andrew Rawnsley

    Call off the search to discover Starmerism. It is already beginning to reveal itself

    Andrew Rawnsley
  • Vaughan Gething

    The Guardian view on Vaughan Gething: the election victory hid a weakness in Wales

    • The shadow cabinet in 2006, with David Lidington front row, second left, front rowstand outside at the Racquet Club in Liverpool, Monday March 6, 2006, after a meeting. They are: (front L to R) Theresa May, David Lidington, Theresa Villiers, David Cameron, William Hague, Cheryl Gillan, Peter Ainsworth Caroline Spelman, (middle L to R) Oliver Letwin, Alan Duncan, Andrew Mitchell, David Willetts, Andrew Lansley, (back L to R) David Davis, Patrick McLoughlin, George Osborne, David Mundell, Chris Grayling, Phllip Hammond, Francis Maude, and Oliver Heald. See PA Story POLITICS Tories. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Photo credit should read: Andrew Parsons/Pool/PA.

      I suffered 13 years in opposition – here’s my advice to my despairing fellow Tories

      David Lidington
    • Illustration showing four notebook pages filled with scrawls and doodles including the just-visible words "Coffey" "Sunak" and "LIES", with a blank page laid on top in the centre

      The Tory gravy train’s left town – but it’s got all my best gags on board

      Stewart Lee
    • John Crace

      Relax, Starmergeddon hasn’t happened. The grownups are in charge

      John Crace

Multimedia

  • Keir Starmer and his deputy met regional mayors on the Labour prime minister's fifth day in office

    0:36

    'I'm a great believer in devolution': Keir Starmer meets metro mayors – video

  • Keir Starmer holds his first press conference as UK PM

    Is Labour’s landslide win in the UK election a reason for hope? – Full Story podcast

  • The prime minister spoke alongside Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar as he arrived in Edinbirgh for a two-day trip to the devolved administrations of the UK

    1:04

    Starmer says Labour will 'deliver for Scotland' as he arrives in Edinburgh to begin UK tour – video

  • Speaking from No 10, Starmer said he would set off on Sunday to visit all four UK nations before attending the Nato summit in Washington

    Keir Starmer vows to focus on 'delivery and service' as he sets out first week as PM – video

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