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General elections

July 2024

  • Yvette Cooper out on an urban street with a police woman on one side of her and a police man on the other

    ‘Constant abuse’: three UK candidates on their election 2024 experience

  • Jess Phillips, holding Labour campaign leaflets, walking down a residential street

    Ministers urged to act over physical and online intimidation in UK election

  • Green party town councillor Clare Weightman and Lib Dem parliamentary candidate Paul Follows chat outside Godalming town council

    Greens expel Surrey members who allegedly backed tactical voting against Jeremy Hunt

  • Clockwise from top left: Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Anish Kapoor, India Amarteifio, Sir Lenny Henry, Kamila Shamsie, David Harewood, Adjoa Andoh and Paterson Joseph.

    UK voter ID laws attack ‘democratic rights of people of colour’, say artists in open letter

  • Labour candidate who lost to new pro-Gaza MP accuses his backers of intimidation

  • Can Britain really keep the rise of the populist right at bay? History tells us it can

    David Kynaston
  • The Conservative party faces an onerous task to rebuild itself, and every Tory must have a say

    Tobias Ellwood
  • Why Labour needs to win over voters who were ‘left behind’

  • The radical who left Oxfam to fight for democracy: ‘Eight men have the same wealth as half the world. Where does this end?’

  • Labour divided over calls to scrap first past the post after landslide win

  • Yvette Cooper says ‘disgraceful scenes’ of election candidate abuse must end

  • I suffered 13 years in opposition – here’s my advice to my despairing fellow Tories

    David Lidington
  • UK government adviser warns assassination attempts becoming more likely

  • From Jacob Rees-Mogg to Jonathan Ashworth: unseated MPs recall best moments

  • Observer comment cartoon
    Chris Riddell on how things are looking up for Britannia, on and off the pitch – cartoon

  • Why did the election polls overstate Labour’s lead?

  • Jeremy Hunt’s children leave ‘sweet’ notes for Starmer’s son and daughter

  • Digested week
    Relax, Starmergeddon hasn’t happened. The grownups are in charge

    John Crace
  • People-power led to my re-election. It is the start of a new politics

    Jeremy Corbyn
  • Lowest turnout in UK general election since universal suffrage, report shows

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