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UK politics

  • An empty classroom during lockdown.

    Pupils in England ‘facing worst exam results in decades’ after Covid closures

  • Angela Rayner in a hard hat and hi-vis jacket at a construction site

    Could a row over a council house bring down Angela Rayner?

    Keir Starmer’s deputy is facing questions over the sale of her former home. But do voters care? Gaby Hinsliff reports
  • Rishi Sunak talking to young children at a table in a nursery as they do colouring in

    England childcare scheme may struggle to deliver places, finds ‘damning’ report

    Watchdog says only a third of local authorities are confident they will have enough places for September

  • Humanitarian groups demand safe routes to UK after five deaths in Channel

  • UK government dementia adviser resigns over prosecutions of carers

  • Braverman dropping Windrush measures was unlawful, court told

  • Defence spending in UK to be put ‘on war footing’, Rishi Sunak says – as it happened

  • Sunak ‘confident’ civil service will enact Rwanda bill despite legal concerns

  • Stumbling blocks that could still impede Rwanda deportations

  • UK to boost defence spending to 2.5% of GDP, Sunak says

  • Jeremy Hunt’s scope for tax cuts hit by higher-than-expected borrowing

Opinion

  • Rafael Behr

    Starmer must drain the poison from the immigration debate – it’s what the public wants

    Rafael Behr
  • Migrants are brought into Dover Port by a RNLI lifeboat after being picked up in the English Channel.

    The Guardian view on sending refugees to Rwanda: the UN is right – this law sets a bad example

  • Martin Rowson on Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda mission accomplished – cartoon

    Martin Rowson on Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda mission accomplished – cartoon

  • John Crace

    Rude, patronising and out of his depth, Minister Mikey ticks all the boxes

    John Crace

  • It’s clearer than ever that Brexit has failed – let’s not inflict its miseries on young people

    Zoe Williams

  • Was it Angela Rayner who was fined millions by HMRC? No, that was a Tory

    Zoe Williams

  • Our leaders seem determined to give war a chance. Their thirst for conflict endangers us all

    Jeremy Corbyn

  • It’s St George’s Day, and England needs a reset. Here are three ways to do it

    Tom Baldwin

  • Sunak and his cabinet think one packed Rwanda flight will save them. It won’t

    Enver Solomon

  • The expansion of free childcare has been a Tory-fied mess of a bright Labour idea

    Polly Toynbee

  • Britain is sicker and poorer than it used to be. Sunak’s response? Attack disabled people

    Frances Ryan

  • The Guardian view on disability, illness and work: there is no ‘sicknote culture’ in Britain

Features & Analysis

  • Rishi Sunak speaking at a lectern in front of union jack flags

    Europe’s political leaders have been slow to recognise financial reality of long wars

  • Liz Truss Memoir Hits Bookstores<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - APRIL 16: A copy of "Ten Years To Save The West" by Liz Truss is seen in a branch of the Waterstones book store on April 16, 2024 in London, England. The Conservative former prime minister, who was in office a mere 49 days, has released a memoir in which she writes that "the Conservative movement across the West has been faltering for almost a generation." (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

    Trump fangirl Liz Truss channels Maga menace at US conservative thinktank

  • Composite image of Keir Starmer, David Cameron and Tony Blair

    Labour are ahead in the polls, but have they won hearts and minds? These charts suggest not

  • A polling station.

    ‘Like the Somme without the generals’: Tory nerves grow as local elections loom

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 Conservatives whipping up fear of migrants – cartoon

    Ben Jennings on the Conservatives whipping up fear of migrants – cartoon

  • Rishi Sunak/Taylor Swift

    Ella Baron on Rishi Sunak the tortured soul – cartoon

    The cover of the surprise Taylor Swift album might ring a few bells in the Tory ranks
  • Limbs fall off the zombie Tory government

    Chris Riddell on the zombie Tory government falling apart at the seams – cartoon

    The Conservatives are obsessed by Angela Rayner and immigrants. And then there’s MP Mark Menzies…

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