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  • Afghan women protest to demand their right to education and work in Mazar-e-Sharif last August.

    UK should restore diplomatic presence to help Afghan women, says aid chief

  • Keir Starmer and Volodymyr Zelenskiy holding each others’ shoulders and smiling.

    UK will give Ukraine £3bn a year ‘for as long as it takes’, says Starmer

    Prime minister holds first official bilateral talks with Volodymyr Zelenskiy at Nato summit in Washington
  • a general view of a prison: two men seen silhouetted as light streams through barred gates, walkways and metal stairways. A sign is seen reading 'this way up at mealtimes'.

    Starmer ‘shocked’ about prisons crisis as early release scheme prepared

    Government to announce terms which could free more than 20,000 inmates in coming months to manage capacity

  • Braverman hits back at Badenoch over ‘public breakdown’ comments

  • US ‘pressuring UK to block ICC’s Netanyahu arrest warrant’

  • Dawn Butler apparently reported to police for celebrating ‘melanin’ in Labour government

  • UK will be ‘leading European nation’ in Nato, defence secretary pledges

  • Labour landslide: inside the 12 July Guardian Weekly

  • UK politics: Badenoch confirms she did criticise Sunak over election at shadow cabinet – as it happened

  • Politics Weekly Westminster: Starmer in the US, Badenoch and the PopCons - podcast

  • Prisons crisis must not jeopardise Labour’s pledge on domestic abuse, Starmer told

Opinion

  • John Crace

    It’s all so unfair. And Rishi has no one to blame but himself

    John Crace
  • Sir Keir Starmer speaks to US Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer during a group photo at the 75th Nato summit in Washington DC on 10 July 2024.

    The Guardian view on defence spending: budget reality cannot be ignored

  • Regional mayors of England visit Sir Keir Starmer at No 10 on 9 July.

    The Guardian view on Labour’s devolution plans: beyond ‘levelling up’

  • Nils Pratley

    Do not let Thames Water’s bondholders wriggle off the hook

    Nils Pratley

  • Labour faces its first moral test in power. Will it protect Netanyahu from being prosecuted by the ICC?

    Geoffrey Robertson

  • Martin Rowson on Keir Starmer’s first Nato summit – cartoon

  • Rachel Reeves says the UK’s public finances are in a dire state – but here’s why I’m cautiously optimistic

    Larry Elliott

  • Making Britain’s voting system fairer won’t enable parties like Reform – it’s the only way to challenge them

    Zoe Williams

  • Keir Starmer has a plan to turn the populist tide – and Britain’s allies pray it works

    Rafael Behr

  • PopCons reassemble and Jacob Rees-Mogg is the sanest person in the room

    John Crace

  • The Guardian view on Labour’s revolution: legitimising its power requires rebuilding trust

  • The Guardian view on overcrowded prisons: James Timpson’s arrival is a signal of hope

Features & Analysis

  • Bob Blackman

    New leader of backbench Tory MPs holds the party’s future in his hands

  • Margaret Thatcher and water treatment plants overlaid with archive Guardian stories

    Cheap sales, debt and foreign takeovers: how privatisation changed the water industry

  • She waves at the camera wearing cream jacket and low-cut top

    ‘We’ll move fast and fix things’: the big transport issues for Labour

  • People stroll through the streets of Durham in County Durham.

    My home town: how Durham changed under Conservative rule

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.

Listen on:

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Cartoons

  • Martin Rowson on Keir Starmer’s new Stakhanovites

    Martin Rowson on Keir Starmer’s new Stakhanovites – cartoon

  • Get On Your Bike, from Snowflake’s Progress.

    Buy a Ben Jennings signed print from his exhibition - Snowflake’s Progress

    Snowflake’s Progress is the first solo exhibition from multi-award winning Guardian cartoonist Ben Jennings, a contemporary adaptation of William Hogarth’s famous 18th-century work A Rake’s Progress
  • Ella Baron on the French election results – cartoon

    Ella Baron on the French election results – cartoon

    The surprise win of the leftwing alliance has kept the Marine Le Pen and the far right from power

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