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  • Tuesday, 9 July, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Suella Braverman’s Tory leadership bid flounders

    Moderate candidates gain ground as balance of parliamentary party shifts

    1 hour ago
    Suella Braverman speaking during the National Conservatism Conference
  • Monday, 8 July, 2024
    Conservative party chair Richard Holden quits after election defeat

    Rishi Sunak appoints ‘interim’ shadow cabinet that will serve until a new Tory leader is chosen

  • Monday, 8 July, 2024
    UK public finances
    Reeves warns UK public finances in worst state since second world war

    UK’s new Labour chancellor has instructed Treasury to examine state spending under the Conservatives

    Rachel Reeves giving a speech
  • Monday, 8 July, 2024
    Martin Wolf
    Keir Starmer’s difficult choices

    The challenge for Labour is not just to govern well, but to restore trust in doing so

    Keir Starmer speaks from behind a podium in a wood-panelled room in Downing Street
  • Sunday, 7 July, 2024
    Tory rivals battle to set narrative of party’s historic defeat

    Leadership contenders Robert Jenrick, Suella Braverman and Victoria Atkins lay out where Conservatives should head next

    Montage of Suella Braverman, Robert Jenrick and Victoria Atkins
  • Sunday, 7 July, 2024
    Stephen Bush
    The new volatility in British politics

    Voters are more willing to shop around and swap parties than in the past

    Illustration of a man’s chest wearing a suit with white shirt and red tie and the red rosette on his chest has the union jack in the centre and the colours of all the parties around the outside. A compass needle in the middle is pointing to the the line between Tory blue and Lib Dem orange
  • Saturday, 6 July, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    Who will replace Sunak as Tory leader?

    Candidates from both wings of the party jostle for position after electoral defeat

    Photos of potential replacements for Rishi Sunak as Labour leader
  • Friday, 5 July, 2024
    Robert Shrimsley
    The fight for the UK right has begun

    Conservatives need to understand why they lost this election

    A man and a woman walk down a city street holding hands
  • Friday, 5 July, 2024
    The Big Read
    How Starmer can succeed

    The new prime minister will need to use the political capital that comes from a huge majority if he is to keep populism at bay

    Clement Attlee, Stanley Baldwin, Keir Starmer, Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair
  • Friday, 5 July, 2024
    ExplainerUK general election 2024
    What happened in the UK general election?

    Labour secures landslide victory as Conservatives crash out of office

  • Friday, 5 July, 2024
    Green party UK
    Greens secure four seats in best-ever UK result

    Party captures all its targets after luring leftwing voters from Labour, as investors note clear support for climate action

    Carla Denyer surrounded by people after the result was announced
  • Friday, 5 July, 2024
    News in-depthRishi Sunak
    ‘Ineffectual’ and ‘snippy’: the rapid rise and stunning fall of Rishi Sunak

    The Icarus-like former PM took his party to what is projected to be its worst defeat in history

    Rishi Sunak
  • Friday, 5 July, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    Starmer hails historic Labour victory as Conservatives sink to worst-ever result

    Sunak resigns as prime minister but delays departure as Tory leader until rules to choose successor are in place

    Some notable winning candidates including Keir Starmer, Suella Braverman, Jeremy Corbyn and Nigel Farage
  • Friday, 5 July, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Historic UK election hauls reveal bigger voter trends

    We are now in an era of increased volatility where party dominance is never guaranteed

    Keir Starmer
  • Friday, 5 July, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    Which high-profile MPs have lost their seats?

    Well-known Conservative and Labour politicians ejected in night that sees Keir Starmer secure landslide

    Montage of Penny Mordaunt, Grant Shapps and Liz Truss
  • Friday, 5 July, 2024
    Tories’ collapse sparks blame game

    Rishi Sunak under fire after results show party on course for worst result in its history

  • Friday, 5 July, 2024
    Instant InsightRobert Shrimsley
    Starmer stands supreme but he cannot ignore the Reform surge

    Tories suffer a punishment beating from the voters

  • Friday, 5 July, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    How time caught up with Britain’s Conservatives

    After 14 years in office, the party lost ground to Labour and the Lib Dems on the left as Reform UK proved itself a new threat on the right

    A montage of Rishi Sunak, against a blue background, in front of a bar chart
  • Thursday, 4 July, 2024
    UK honours system
    Sunak hands peerage to Theresa May in eleventh-hour honours list

    The former Conservative prime minister will join the House of Lords

    Former Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May has been awarded a peerage in the dissolution honours list
  • Thursday, 4 July, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    Conservatives set for historic UK election defeat, polls suggest

    Labour leader Keir Starmer could secure a parliamentary majority of more than 200

    Keir Starmer and Victoria Starmer walking to a polling station
  • Thursday, 4 July, 2024
    The State of Britain
    Populist policies only help populists Premium content

    Also in this week’s newsletter, the financial pressure on local authorities and your guide to election night

  • Thursday, 4 July, 2024
    Miranda Green
    Pork pies and trail mix: the snacks that fuel elections

    In campaign HQs and broadcast studios, food makes or breaks polling day

    Rishi Sunak holding a plate of sandwiches
  • Thursday, 4 July, 2024
    Politics
    A top Tory donor’s tangled web presence

    What’s pink, slimy, and loves Julio Herrera Velutini?

  • Thursday, 4 July, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    How UK civil servants are preparing for a change of government

    Officials get ready for an expected cultural shift in Whitehall

    Pedestrians pass Parliament Street and Whitehall street signs in the Westminster district of London
  • Thursday, 4 July, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Why has Rishi Sunak’s campaign been such a disaster?

    The PM’s blunders worsened his chances amid a backdrop of crumbling public services and party fundraising struggles

    Sunak and his wife leave the polling station
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