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General election
2024

4 July 2024

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Highlights

  • James Timpson

    Ministers
    Familiar faces but not all from politics: meet the surprise Labour ministers

  • The Commons chamber at the Palace of Westminster. London, where some Labour MPs will have to sit on Opposition benches in busy times.

    Parliament
    Where will they all sit? Commons welcomes 334 rookie MPs in most diverse parliament

  • Keir and Victoria Starmer outside No 10 Downing Street on Friday:

    Analysis
    Labour put ‘safe’ seats at risk to target marginals. It paid off – but there’s a cost

  • Keir Starmer meets school children at Haverstock School in Chalk Farm, north London.

    Keir Starmer
    Uncool Britannia? How Britain might feel with the court of Sir Keir

Latest news

  • Prime minister Keir Starmer visits Washington DCwith foreign secretary David Lammy on 13 September.

    ‘It’s nil-nil’: Labour warned the political race with the Conservatives isn’t over

    A new book charting path to power reveals Keir Starmer and his team were told the landslide win was due to fragile coalition of voters
  • A migrant being put into the back of a white security van while being held by an immigration officer

    ‘Inhumane’ treatment of migrants rounded up in UK’s failed Rwanda plan revealed

  • George Cottrell.

    Mother of Nigel Farage’s aide George Cottrell gives £500,000 to Reform

  • Sign reading Have you got your ID? next to hand holding British passport and polling card.

    Britons should be able to use wider range of ID to vote, says watchdog

  • Emmanuel Macron and Rishi Sunak

    Foreign Office officials said Rishi Sunak should attend D-day event, book reveals

  • Rishi Sunak and Craig Williams stand beside each other

    Political figures who bet on election date will not face police charges, Met says

In depth

  • Ed Davey on a jetski

    The Lib Dems need a tight policy focus – but the stunts are here to stay

  • Andy Street West Midlands Mayor on a bus

    ‘Obsession’ with Reform UK could leave Tories out of power for 20 years, warns Andy Street

    • Asha Puthli, singer, songwriter.

      Original Observer Photography

    • 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

    • Britain's Conservative party opposition leader Rishi Sunak reacts during a debate in the House of Commons in London, on 17 July.

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

      Tobias Ellwood

Marina Hyde’s campaign trail

  • An advertising van for the Conservative party in Parliament Square in May.

    Tory tactics make this a rip-roaring election for the phrase ‘[citation needed]’

  • Rishi Sunak speaks at the D-Day 80th anniversary event in Normandy; soldiers in dress uniform are seen standing behind him.

    Sunak continues his fighting talk. At this stage it’s more of a surrender message

    Prime minister’s campaign has become the only spectacle less appealing than England at the Euros
  • Mel Stride leaving a building

    And it’s over to Mel Stride. Again. Where are all the other Tories? Ladbrokes?

    The work and pensions secretary’s colleagues must be trapped under something heavy because no one but Stride is pulling their weight

Path to power

  • Graphic of people and places in UK

    Hope in short supply: what our election reporters found out as they travelled the UK

  • Nottingham East illustration

    ‘I don’t feel like your vote counts’: little faith in politics among young people of Nottingham

    Labour is almost certain to retain Nottingham East but many plan to stay away or spoil their ballot
  • Waveney Valley composite illustration

    Waveney Valley ought to be a Tory heartland. Could angry voters turn it Green?

    In a new constituency where the river ‘is our lifeblood’, people speak of being taken for granted by the Tories

Reality check

  • Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer on the BBC prime ministerial debate.

    Is there truth in Rishi Sunak’s net zero attack on Labour?

  • Keir Starmer, John Swinney, Rishi Sunak and Ed Davey on s BBC Question Time Leaders' Special in York, England.

    The party leaders on NHS waiting lists and immigration targets

    Keir Starmer, John Swinney, Rishi Sunak and Ed Davey took questions from the public on Thursday. We examine their claims on hospital backlogs, Lib Dem policies and Brexit
  • Richard Tice and Nigel Farage at the manifesto launch

    Do Reform UK’s election claims on tax, immigration and environment add up?

    From economy to transport, health to housing, and immigration – how do the main pledges in party’s ‘contract’ with electorate stack up?

Opinion

  • Kamala Harris

    How the lessons of the UK election could help Kamala Harris defeat Donald Trump

    Deborah Mattinson and Claire Ainsley
  • Priti Patel

    The Guardian view on the Tory leadership contest: shrinking to the challenge

    • Owen Jones

      Labour should listen to pro-Gaza voters. But it’s letting toxic narratives about them flourish

      Owen Jones
    • Keir Starmer at the European Political Community summit at Blenheim Palace on 18 July.

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

      David Kynaston
    • Andrew Rawnsley

      Call off the search to discover Starmerism. It is already beginning to reveal itself

      Andrew Rawnsley

Multimedia

  • Keir Starmer and his deputy met regional mayors on the Labour prime minister's fifth day in office

    0:36

    'I'm a great believer in devolution': Keir Starmer meets metro mayors – video

  • Keir Starmer holds his first press conference as UK PM

    Is Labour’s landslide win in the UK election a reason for hope? – Full Story podcast

  • The prime minister spoke alongside Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar as he arrived in Edinbirgh for a two-day trip to the devolved administrations of the UK

    1:04

    Starmer says Labour will 'deliver for Scotland' as he arrives in Edinburgh to begin UK tour – video

  • Speaking from No 10, Starmer said he would set off on Sunday to visit all four UK nations before attending the Nato summit in Washington

    Keir Starmer vows to focus on 'delivery and service' as he sets out first week as PM – video

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