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  • Rishi Sunak and his wife Akshata Murty

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    Rishi Sunak denies he considered missing D-day events entirely as he reiterates apology – UK general election live

  • A section of the BP Eastern Trough Area Project oil platform in the North Sea

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

    John Browne appears to back Labour energy policy as he underlines need for green transition
  • Rishi Sunak in front of a row of military personnel in uniform

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

    The prime minister, already behind in the polls, skipped an international commemoration to record a TV interview

  • Disgraced Keith Vaz expelled from Labour as he stands for One Leicester party

  • Rishi Sunak apologises for leaving D-day events early to record TV interview

  • How will seven parties hope to make their mark in BBC election debate?

  • Labour urges Tories not to hand out leaflets it says Frank Hester has paid for

  • UK house prices stabilise as rising wages and consumer confidence steady market

  • Labour vows to investigate carer’s allowance scandal

  • Commonwealth health ministries under pressure amid rise in climate-related illnesses

  • Rishi Sunak criticised for leaving D-day event early ‘to record ITV interview’

Opinion

  • 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

  • John Crace

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

    John Crace
  • Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

    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

  • The Guardian view on Labour’s Welsh dilemma: winning a landslide with a lame duck leader

  • There’s no distance these Conservative heroes won’t travel to serve … themselves

    John Crace

Features & Analysis

  • Rishi Sunak attends the 80th anniversary of the D-Day Allied landings in Normandy

    ‘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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