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UK general election

  • Latest results Seats won

    Labour Lab 412 +214
    Watercolour portrait of Sir Keir Starmer
    Watercolour portrait of Rishi Sunak
    Conservatives Con 121 −252
    326 for majority

    649/650 seats declared

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  • Composite: Guardian Design/EPA

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

    Marina Hyde
  • Keir Starmer cutout against a backdrop of three more photos of him on a red background

    Labour
    How Labour did it: inside the campaign that led to ‘Starmergeddon’

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

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

  • Rishi Sunak speaks outside 10 Downing Street

    Analysis
    ‘Goodwill on all sides’: transfer of UK power the antithesis of last US election

Headlines

  • Spain's keeper Unai Simon claims the ball in the Euro 2024 quarter-final against Germany.

    Euro 2024 live
    Spain v Germany: quarter-final

  • Andrew Tate

    Andrew Tate
    Andrew Tate can leave Romania while awaiting trial, court rules

    • France
      French PM urges calm after assaults in run-up to second round vote

    • Russia
      Viktor Orbán visits Vladimir Putin to condemnation from fellow EU leaders

    • Jair Bolsonaro
      Ex-president of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro could face money-laundering charges

    • Israel-Gaza war
      Israel-Hamas talks to resume, raising hopes of a Gaza ceasefire

    • UK
      Former neonatal nurse, Lucy Letby, handed 15th whole-life jail sentence

    • Kevin Bacon
      ‘This sucks. I want to go back to being famous’: Kevin Bacon’s experiment as a ‘regular person’

News in focus

  • FILE PHOTO: U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris marks second anniversary of Roe v. Wade being overturned<br>FILE PHOTO: U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris discusses reproductive rights on the second anniversary of Roe v. Wade being overturned, in Phoenix, Arizona, U.S. June 24, 2024. REUTERS/Rebecca Noble/File Photo

    Kamala Harris
    #KHive: Kamala Harris memes abound after Joe Biden’s debate disaster

  • A man walks past graffiti in Perpignan

    France
    Police, poverty and populism: how Perpignan became a laboratory for the far right

    French city’s election of a National Rally mayor has been a study in the party’s attempts to normalise itself in local politics
  • A car speeding past a '40' mph highway code sign painted on the tarmac

    Driving
    ‘Hard to argue against’: mandatory speed limiters come to the EU and NI

    All new cars must have the devices from 7 July, adding fuel economy as well as safety. Will mpg become the new mph?

Spotlight

  • Illustration of a naked man and woman kissing behind a giant flower

    This is how we do it around the world: a sex special
    ‘There is a sex crisis here. Couples stop having sex after kids’: This is how we do it in Japan

    Aoi and Jiro have regular intercourse – so how did they buck what seems to be a national trend?
  • Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan) in Saltburn.

    Television
    ‘Everybody screamed when they saw it!’ The sudden rise in penises on TV

  • A young woman stare exasperatedly at a kitchen setup.

    Restaurants
    ‘Buy your back brace now’: The Bear sidesteps the grueling physical costs of restaurant work

    The hit show shows how kitchens are pressure cookers of stress, but not how professional cooking ravages the body
  • Jacob Rees-Mogg standing next to Barmy Brunch from The Official Monster Raving Loony party

    UK election 2024
    ‘From the ashes of disaster grow the roses of success’ – quotes of election night

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      Analysis
      ‘Beyond marketing, beyond expectation’: how Inside Out and Despicable Me saved the summer

    • A luxury property in Armadale, Melbourne, showing a luxurious pool against a red-brick home with three chimmneys

      Property
      Helicopter rides and a wealthy contact list: inside Australia’s luxury real estate market of $60m-plus homes

    • David Sedaris.

      David Sedaris is an icon of indignation in a world that keeps on irking

      Brian Logan
    • Illustration of a man and a woman with their arms folded.

      Ask Annalisa Barbieri
      Our place is a mess, but my partner and I still can’t agree who does which chores

Euro 2024

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Sport

Opinion

  • Keir Starmer enters no. 10 Downing St. London. Photograph by David Levene 5/7/24

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

    Gaby Hinsliff
    In league with regional mayors, the prime minister can test good ideas in areas like housing. There is promising talent in Labour’s ranks too. Fast track it, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
  • Rishi Sunak is watched by his wife, Akshata Murty, as he stands speaking at a lectern outside No 10

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

    John Crace
  • Sean Connery in Diamonds Are Forever.

    James Bond has an Andrew Tate problem. The answer is to set it in the 1960s

    Ben Child
  • Rishi Sunak in front of the black railings at No 10, with a downcast expression on his face.

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

    Simon Jenkins
  • Keir Starmer and supporters in central London, awaiting election results 5 July 2024.

    Celebrate: we have waited so long for this routing of the Tories. An unbearably rare moment of pure political joy

    Polly Toynbee
  • 240706 Never Ending Tory thumbnail

    Fiona Katauskas
    After the UK general election, is it really the end of the Tory story?

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Climate crisis

  • Google’s data centre in the US.

    Explainer
    Can the climate survive the insatiable energy demands of the AI arms race?

  • Jordan Bardella speaks to reporters at a farm

    France
    Far-right win in French election could deal blow to climate policy, say experts

  • a side-by-side image of Donald Trump and wind turbines

    Donald Trump
    ‘It’s nonsensical’: how Trump is making climate the latest culture war

  • Close-up of man wearing white shirt, tie and jacket

    Climate crisis
    Biden attacks Republican climate deniers as he unveils extreme-heat rules

Around the world

  • ***BESTPIX*** New York City Celebrates Independence Day With Macy's 4th Of July Fireworks<br>NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JULY 4: The Macy's 4th Of July fireworks show lights up the night sky as a backdrop to the Empire State Building on July 4, 2024 in New York City. The annual spectacle, lighting up the city since 1976, this time was launched from barges in the Hudson River, the first time in more than a decade not done from the East River. (Photo by Adam Gray/Getty Images) ***BESTPIX***

    US
    Three dead after truck strikes group on Fourth of July in New York City park

    Ford F-150 came down a street ‘at a high rate of speed’, went past a stop sign, on to the sidewalk and into a park
  • Logo at a Shell petrol station in London.

    Business
    Shell to take hit of up to $2bn on Rotterdam site

  • Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò

    Catholicism
    Vatican excommunicates its former ambassador to the US

  • Marine Le Pen is interviewed by Apolline de Malherbe.

    France live
    Marine Le Pen says National Rally have ‘serious chance’ for absolute majority despite polls

    • Language
      Babbling English youngster shows babies can have accents, say scientists

    • UK
      Prescribing of testosterone for middle-aged women ’out of control’

    • Business
      China to hold hearing into brandy imports as tension grows with EU over tariffs on EVs

    • Migration
      At least 89 migrants dead after boat capsizes off Mauritania, state news agency says

    • US
      Solo shark bites two and makes contact with two others at Texas beach

    • Iran
      Iranians head out to vote in second round of presidential election

Culture

  • A scene from Shōgun

    The Guide
    The best culture of the year (so far)

    In this week’s newsletter: From Brat girl summer to the swaggering Shōgun, here are our favourite TV shows, albums, films, podcasts, books and games of 2024
  • The robots are coming! … AI is creeping into TV in a frightening way.

    Television
    ‘The disruption is already happening!’ Is AI about to ruin your favourite TV show?

  • ‘Viscerally satisfying’ … a player of FarmVille in 2008.

    Games
    FarmVille at 15: how a cutesy Facebook game shaped the modern internet

  • Tubi UK service

    Streaming
    Can Murdoch’s Tubi repeat its US success as it launches in the UK?

  • Noel Gallagher at 2024’s Glastonbury festival.

    Glastonbury 2024
    Noel Gallagher says Glastonbury is ‘a bit woke now’ and criticises political musicians

  • Headie One.

    Music
    Headie One: The Last One review – rueful memoir with party tunes attached

Lifestyle

  • Experts agree that the microbiome is important to human health. But many are skeptical about how useful these kits are.'

    Well actually
    Are at-home gut microbiome testing kits a scam?

    Gut health has become something of a wellness buzzword – so we asked experts what the gut microbiome is and how it affects our health
  • Allicia Rolle in Nassau, the capital of The Bahamas.

    Experience
    I survived a plane crash without a scratch

  • Zoe Williams wearing Loop earplugs

    Life and style
    Earplugs as fashion items? I gave Loop’s hit accessories a festival test

  • Judge 6th July - WEB

    You be the judge
    You be the judge: should my grown-up son help me move out of our house?

  • Alleghe, Belluno, Dolomites, Veneto, Italy, Europe<br>P691DP Alleghe, Belluno, Dolomites, Veneto, Italy, Europe

    Travel
    ‘Stunning lakes and majestic mountains’: readers’ tips from Europe

  • Down Hall's green tea martini.

    Food
    Cocktail of the week: Down Hall’s green tea martini – recipe

Take part

  • Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer speaks to supporters at a watch party for the election results in central London.

    UK general election 2024
    Share your reaction to the election results

  • Closeup of eye with makeup<br>Closeup image of beautiful woman eye with fashion makeup. Makeup with eyeliner. Cosmetic Eyeshadow.

    Life and style
    Have you experienced so-called ‘eyebrow blindness’?

  • sun shines down on silhouette of person drinking from water bottle

    People in the US
    How do you stay cool in extreme heat?

  • A young woman university student lying on her bed studying working reading writing on laptop in messy untidy bedroom at home UK<br>DRF2PB A young woman university student lying on her bed studying working reading writing on laptop in messy untidy bedroom at home UK

    Life and style
    Do you still sleep in your childhood bedroom?

From our global editions

  • king charles and queen camilla cuddle koalas

    Animals
    Hands off the koala: why cuddling Australia’s iconic marsupial could soon be a thing of the past

    Countless famous faces have been snapped snuggling up to koalas in Australia. But it’s a practice animal activists hope will become extinct
  • Women and children sit among washing drying on the line at a camp for displaced people in Burkina Faso

    Burkina Faso
    ‘They live with fear in their stomachs’: increasing violence deepens crisis in Burkina Faso

  • UK front pages after Labour win the 2024 general election.

    Media
    ‘Keir we go’: what the papers say as Labour wins landslide in general election

  • people read books

    New York
    ‘It’s a snowball effect’: the gen Z niche reading event making waves in New York

  • Rows of glass jars and dispensers filled with different foods

    Environment
    ‘It needs to stay in the loop’: German reuse schemes turn shopping upside down

  • People line up at polling place in Caracas

    Americas
    Could Venezuela’s softly-spoken opposition newcomer end 25 years of Chavismo?

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    Film
    ‘I wish my parents were alive so I could tell them I’m a concept’: Tilda Swinton and Julio Torres on elves, slaps and giving dignity to toilets

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    The long read
    Revolution in the air: how laughing gas changed the world

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    Caribbean
    ‘Please send help’: Caribbean reels from Hurricane Beryl devastation

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    Interview
    All the rage: women are furious – and repressing it can ruin our lives

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Podcasts

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

  • Parliamentary election in Britain<br>Incoming British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his wife Victoria arrive at Number 10 Downing Street, following the results of the election, in London, Britain, July 5, 2024. REUTERS/Phil Noble

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    Politics Weekly UK – Labour wins a landslide: Is this a new dawn?

  • Britain's Labour Party leader Keir Starmer wins the general election<br>Keir Starmer, leader of Britain's Labour party, reacts as he attends a reception to celebrate his win in the election, at Tate Modern, in London, Britain, July 5, 2024. REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett REFILE - QUALITY UPDATE

    Today in Focus
    Labour’s landslide victory – podcast

  • Illustration with colourful arrows representing the main political parties and black and white images of political and media figures including George Osborne, Clive Myrie and Nicola Sturgeon

    Today in Focus
    Election Extra: a guide to the night - podcast

  • Joe Bide

    Politics Weekly America
    Biden in trouble as Supreme Court hands Trump another big win

  • A close-up image of a blue-grey coloured single sperm cell on black background

    Science
    ‘Spermageddon’: is male fertility really in crisis? – podcast

  • Revellers shelter under a tree at Worthy farm in Somerset during the Glastonbury music festival

    Pop Culture with Chanté Joseph
    The summer of green music festivals

In pictures

  • An exit poll is projected onto BBC Broadcasting House in London.

    Twenty photographs of the week
    The week around the world in 20 pictures

    War in Gaza, Britain’s general election, fires in California and the Tour de France: the last seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists
  • Keir Starmer and his wife Victoria outside 10 Downing Street

    Photos of the day
    A stiletto race, 4 July fireworks and the UK’s new PM

  • Kestrel chicks look out from their nest on the side of a house in Rochdale, UK. They are about to take flight for the first time

    The week in wildlife
    Joyriding birds, a rare golden cat and a surprise king cobra

  • Linda in the laundry room, alongside a picture of linens

    Photography
    ‘We all need a place to hide’: NHS workers take a breather

  • Rehearsals for The School for Scandal at the Royal Shakespeare theatre

    Stage
    No rest for the wicked: The School for Scandal at the RSC

  • Raptor expert George Smith ringing peregrine chicks on a cliff ledge while roped to a tree above

    Environment
    ‘I’ve known some of these peregrines for 15 years’: protecting Scotland’s raptors

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