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  • Keir Starmer

    Labour MP calls two-child benefit cap ‘heinous’ in latest call to scrap policy

  • Bridget Phillipson, the new education secretary, takes part in art activities with pupils during a visit to a nursery in Croydon, south London.

    Labour makes working-class children key to schools reform

    Minister pledges more sports and drama in curriculum review as row deepens over two-child benefit cap
  • Victoria Atkins behaved 'abominably', deputy speaker says Victoria Atkins behaved 'abominably', deputy speaker says Close Victoria Atkins was criticised by deputy Speaker Christopher Chope for standing at the despatch box and attempting to intervene during a debate on Friday. The Conservative MP for Louth and Horncastle was described as behaving "abominably" for trying to interrupt Defra Secretary Steve Reed as he spoke during the planning, green belt and rural affairs debate.

    Shadow health secretary rebuked for behaving ‘abominably’ in Commons

    Tory MP Victoria Atkins walked to dispatch box and tried to loudly interrupt environment secretary

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

  • Optimism surges in Britain – but how long can Labour’s honeymoon last?

  • English schools to phase out ‘cruel’ behaviour rules as Labour plans major education changes

  • Newborn baby made homeless by Home Office in frenzy to clear asylum backlog

  • Two leading Tories back Tom Tugendhat for party leadership

  • New Sunak appointments mean four in 10 Tory MPs are on frontbench

  • Home Office will decide asylum claims of thousands stuck in Rwanda scheme limbo

  • Jo Swinson criticises ‘duplicitous’ civil servants at Post Office inquiry

Opinion

  • 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
  • Andrew Rawnsley

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

    Andrew Rawnsley
  • Aidan Kelly

    I treat transgender children – banning puberty blockers is not a decision for politicians to make

    Aidan Kelly
  • Marina Hyde

    Welcome to 2024’s saddest race – who gets to be Britain’s ‘Trump whisperer’?

    Marina Hyde

  • Starmer will bin the two-child benefit cap and outdo New Labour on tackling poverty – I’ll bet on it

    Polly Toynbee

  • Tough on elites, tough on the causes of elites: that’s how Starmer can defeat the allure of populism

    Andy Beckett

  • A record sentence for a Zoom call, arrests for those holding signs outside. This is a blight on British democracy

    George Monbiot

  • Exit Bungee-jumping Ed, enter Shifty Ed as Davey attends the Post Office inquiry

    John Crace

  • The Guardian view on the European Political Community summit: at last, Britain is back in the diplomatic room

  • David Cameron failed to foist new houses on rural areas. Why does Keir Starmer think he’ll succeed?

    Simon Jenkins

  • The Covid inquiry report makes it clear: Britain was completely and fatally unprepared

    Devi Sridhar

  • Nige shows up for pomp of king’s speech, then jets off to US when the work starts

    John Crace

Features & Analysis

  • Bridget Phillipson in her new departmental office.

    Labour’s Bridget Phillipson: ‘I will help working-class pupils defy the odds to succeed – just as I did’

  • A row of pylons

    The great pylon pile-on: can councils’ opposition scupper Labour’s ‘clean power’ revolution?

  • Duke of Norfolk in military outfit, flanked by senior officers

    The last of the hereditary peers in the House of Lords

  • 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

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

  • Ella Baron on Labour’s failure to address the two-child benefit cap in the king’s speech – cartoon

    Ella Baron on Labour’s failure to address the two-child benefit cap in the king’s speech – cartoon

  • Chris Riddell illustration of a Republican elephant with Maga cap and bandaged ear saying "Make America grotesque again".

    Chris Riddell on how the Republican party is Making America Grotesque Again – cartoon

    Despite its disastrous policies, the party of Donald Trump is trampling all over the Democrats
  • Martin Rowson on Donald Trump and divine intervention – cartoon

    Martin Rowson on Donald Trump and divine intervention – cartoon

    The Republican presidential nominee has declared that he was saved ‘by the grace of almighty God’ after surviving a shooting in Pennsylvania

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