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UK politics

  • People affected by the infected blood scandal attend a vigil in Parliament Square.

    Live
    ‘We’ve got to give these people justice’: infected blood report could lead to prosecutions, minister says – UK politics live

  • PollTracker trail v2

    UK general election opinion poll tracker: Labour leading as election looms

    Find out who’s up and who’s down in the latest polls – and how many seats each party is likely to win in the next general election
  • A member of the Border Agency stops a lorry for checks

    Post-Brexit border checks forecast to cost UK £4.7bn, says NAO

    Watchdog says says repeated delays have caused unnecessary costs and strategy lacks a ‘clear timetable’

  • Ryanair reports record €1.9bn profit as Amber Rudd joins board

  • Infected blood inquiry to publish final report in seismic moment for victims

  • Scotland’s vulnerable marine life not properly protected, campaigners warn

  • Aslef leader left proposed deal to end rail strikes unread

  • Greater Manchester police chief defends decision to investigate Angela Rayner

  • Grant Shapps orders review into plane shortage before 80th D-day anniversary

  • Zarah Sultana: the Labour MP taking on the Tories, and her own party, over Gaza

  • Wes Streeting praises archbishop over call for Labour to scrap two-child benefit cap

Opinion

  • Schoolboys after lessons on the steps of Old School building Harrow School Harrow on the Hill Middlesex United Kingdom<br>AYYHPG Schoolboys after lessons on the steps of Old School building Harrow School Harrow on the Hill Middlesex United Kingdom

    Scrap the plan for VAT on private schools, Labour. Just let low-income kids attend instead

    Mike Harris
  • John McDonnell

    Keir Starmer’s ‘first steps’ might get him into Downing Street. But there is danger ahead

    John McDonnell
  • John Harris

    Education’s deepest crisis is being ignored by Westminster – and even harsher cuts are on the way

    John Harris
  • Torsten Bell

    US voters are increasingly polarised over politics, but Brits are far less stubborn

    Torsten Bell

  • We’ve got the talent and the tech. So why can’t Britain grow its own world-beaters?

    Will Hutton

  • Rishi Sunak’s scare tactics aren’t going to work against a soothing Keir Starmer

    Andrew Rawnsley

  • The two-child benefit cap in the UK is unfair and doesn’t work

    Bishop of Leicester

  • Starmer thought he’d found the nation’s pulse in Essex. Here’s what ‘Essex man’ made of him

    Tim Burrows

  • Beware the Biden factor, Keir Starmer: you can govern well and still risk losing the country

    Jonathan Freedland

  • I love being a pharmacist, but the UK’s drug shortage makes me want to give up – and Brexit makes it worse

    Mike Hewitson

  • British MPs are attacking abortion rights. We can’t follow the same path as the US

    Hilary Freeman

  • The Tories’ war on foreign students isn’t for the good of the country – it’s about saving their own skins

    Polly Toynbee

Features & Analysis

  • Abubakr Nanabawa, national coordinator for the Muslim Vote campaign group

    ‘We had to break the status quo’: UK campaign seeks to mobilise Muslim vote

  • University graduands arriving for their graduation ceremony

    Next government must make hard university funding decisions, fast

  • Keir Starmer laughing on TV talkshow sofa with Tim Lovejoy and Simon Rimmer

    Starmer tries to curry favour with electorate through Sunday Brunch tandoori

  • Jeremy Hunt smiles as he talks to staff in a supermarket during a visit

    Inflation in the UK is about to tumble. But how far – and for how long?

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

  • Ella Baron on the infected blood inquiry report – cartoon

    Ella Baron on the infected blood inquiry report – cartoon

  • Illustration of a wounded Russian bear crushing Kharkiv

    Chris Riddell on Russia’s advance on Kharkiv – cartoon

    It may be wounded but, with China’s backing, the bear is feeling bullish
  • Martin Rowson on climate change, and the price of olive oil – cartoon

    Martin Rowson on climate change, and the price of olive oil – cartoon

    Drought last year in Europe forced prices up – and with global heating continuing, they are unlikely to come down again

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