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  • Deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner (left) and Commons leader Penny Mordaunt during the debate

    Election debate review: everyone struggled to be heard in this seven-way brawl

  • An ultra low emission zone sign on a busy road in London.

    Tories pledge to reverse Ulez expansion and limit 20mph roads in Wales

    Party would immediately introduce a drivers bill if it wins the election, in a significant back-pedal on devolution
  • Participants in the BBC election debate, left to right: Nigel Farage, Reform; Rhun ap Iorwerth, Plaid Cymru; Daisy Cooper, Liberal Democrats; Stephen Flynn, SNP; Carla Denyer, Green party; Angela Rayner, Labour; Penny Mordaunt, Conservatives.

    BBC election debate: Penny Mordaunt says Sunak’s D-day snub was ‘very wrong’ in seven-party clash – as it happened

    Mordaunt, for the Tories, faced Labour’s Angela Rayner, Reform’s Nigel Farage and candidates from Lib Dems, SNP, Greens and Plaid Cymru

  • Labour and Tories renew clashes in ill-tempered second election debate

  • ‘Well that was dignified’: key takeaways of BBC general election debate

  • Furious Tories turn on Rishi Sunak over D-day commemorations snub

  • Labour signs off election manifesto but Unite refuses to endorse it

  • Tory candidate Ashley Fox accused of lying to MPs to secure job

  • Threefold increase in lone child asylum seekers in UK, figures show

  • Former BP boss calls for end to new North Sea drilling licences

  • Rishi Sunak’s D-day blunder and what it could mean for the UK election

Opinion

  • Rafael Behr

    Multiparty debate shows an audience tiring of the Labour-Tory slugging match

    Rafael Behr
  • John Crace

    Slanging matches and soundbites: debate delivers seven ways to make time drag

    John Crace
  • Jonathan Freedland

    Sunak’s D-day failure is a campaign disaster – and a sign he’s forgotten the very recent past

    Jonathan Freedland
  • Martin Rowson on how politicians just pay lip service to the lessons of D-day – cartoon

    Martin Rowson on the lip service paid to the lessons of D-day – cartoon

  • Election diary: Rishi Sunak makes a French exit and Ed Davey wins hearts

    John Crace

  • How did the Greens get it so wrong on ‘natural’ birth?

    Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

  • Leaders should finally tell us the truth about migration: it’s here for good

    Gaia Vince

  • Infant mortality is rising and births are plummeting. This is the legacy of 14 years of Tory cruelty

    Polly Toynbee

  • Don’t underestimate Starmer’s push for workers’ rights – it could be his defining legacy

    Martin Kettle

  • There is no ‘change’ for Britain without a massive injection of cash. Why won’t our politicians admit it?

    Frances Ryan

  • In Tory England, the Lib Dems can smell revenge in the air – and sewage in the rivers

    Gaby Hinsliff

  • Great British Energy will be welcome – but Labour risks over-selling it

    Nils Pratley

Features & Analysis

  • A Conservative source has criticised ‘clown advisers’ after Rishi Sunak left the D-day ceremony early to conduct a TV interview.

    ‘D-day was the final straw’: Sunak’s blunders ignite Tory party fury

  • Bristol Central

    ‘People feel betrayed by Labour’: Bristol’s Green surge continues

  • Andrew Watts on his farm

    ‘Cannot be trusted’: traditional farming voter base turns away from Tories

  • 30/05/2024. 2024 General Election. London. Richard Tice leader of The Reform partyand Nigel Farage . Reform party on immigration.Photo Sean Smith

    Who are the wealthy climate sceptics funding rightwing UK politics?

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

  • Ben Jennings on the 80th anniversary of the D-day landings, and the proximity of the past

    Ben Jennings on the 80th anniversary of the D-day landings, and the proximity of the past

  • Ben Jennings on D-day, Nigel Farage and immigration – cartoon

    Ben Jennings on D-day, Nigel Farage and immigration – cartoon

    Reform’s leader warns mass immigration is gobbling scarce public resources as D-day celebrations continue across the Channel
  • Martin Rowson on politics as an end-of-the-pier show in Clacton – cartoon

    Martin Rowson on politics as an end-of-the-pier show in Clacton – cartoon

    Nigel Farage has launched his Reform UK election party campaign in the Essex seaside town

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