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  • Monday, 26 February, 2024
    News in-depthUK employment
    Labour’s worker rights shake-up leaves UK business on edge

    Overhaul planned by main opposition party could backfire and end up harming employees and bosses, say executives

    1 hour ago
    A montage of the Labour party logo and a woman holding a sign that says ‘Don’t gut my salary’
  • Sunday, 25 February, 2024
    News in-depth
    UK Conservatives battle to retain ‘true blue’ rural heartlands

    Farming constituencies signal openness to Labour for first time in generations amid anger with Rishi Sunak’s government

    Neil Ross in a cafe
  • Saturday, 24 February, 2024
    UK politics opinion polls
    UK general election poll tracker

    Live-updating state of the parties polling ahead of the general election

    An image of a hand placing a ballot paper in a ballot box
  • Saturday, 24 February, 2024
    News in-depthUK by-elections
    ‘Macho’ all-male Rochdale by-election fuels political divisions over Gaza

    Locals bemoan campaign’s lack of focus on ‘serious poverty’ blighting the community

  • Wednesday, 21 February, 2024
    Stephen Bush
    Starmer will only reveal his true face in power

    What we talk about when we talk about Labour party factions

    Illustration of Keir Startmer peeping from behind a mask of himself.
  • Wednesday, 21 February, 2024
    Sunak promises Tory MPs a role in shaping election manifesto

    PM wants ambitious tax cuts at the heart of policy pledges as he seeks to defy odds and win another term

    Rishi Sunak
  • Tuesday, 20 February, 2024
    News in-depthScottish politics
    ‘On a knife edge’: Humza Yousaf seeks to fend off Labour in Scotland

    Opposition hopes disillusionment with governing SNP could help it win majority in UK general election

    Humza Yousaf
  • Monday, 19 February, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Starmer and Sunak’s party wisdom gets health check after by-elections

    Tories’ official line could damage PM if some mutinous MPs exploit the results to agitate for leadership change

    Labour MP Gen Kitchen and supporters in Kettering
  • Sunday, 18 February, 2024
    News in-depthUK schools
    English private schools focus on recruiting overseas as Labour VAT hit looms

    Independent school leaders move to shore up their finances ahead of general election

    Students walk along a corridor at Royal High School Bath
  • Friday, 16 February, 2024
    Tim Bale
    Reform’s success is not the real story of the by-elections

    The populist party’s vote share matters, but ultimately these local contests tell us more about Labour’s chances

  • Friday, 16 February, 2024
    UK by-elections
    Tories reel as Labour wins two by-elections and Reform UK gains over 10% of vote  

    Victory for opposition in previously safe Conservative seats is latest blow to Rishi Sunak

    A montage with Gen Kitchen, left, and Damien Egan, right
  • Friday, 16 February, 2024
    Reform party UK
    Reform UK voter support highlights threat to Sunak’s right flank

    Former Brexit party’s performance in by-elections shows it can meaningfully chip away Conservative votes

    Reform UK deputy leader and Wellingborough candidate Ben Habib, left, on the party’s bus in Wellingborough, England
  • Friday, 16 February, 2024
    Data PointsJohn Burn-Murdoch
    Progressives beware: high turnout now favours the right

    A key electoral headwind has changed direction in recent years

    Montage of images of Donald Trump and Joe Biden with blue and red graph lines behind them
  • Thursday, 15 February, 2024
    News in-depthUK politics
    UK’s ‘technical’ recession is politically toxic for Rishi Sunak

    Prime minister grapples with the ‘R’ word after GDP declines for the second straight quarter

    Rishi Sunak and Rachel Reeves
  • Wednesday, 14 February, 2024
    News in-depthUK by-elections
    ‘Tumbleweed’ Tory campaign leaves Labour hopeful of victory in Midlands by-election

    Opposition party hopes to seize on discontent with governing Conservatives in Wellingborough

    Labour’s campaign office for candidate Gen Kitchen
  • Monday, 12 February, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Making plans with one eye on Nigel Farage

    Reform UK’s rising poll ratings divide the experts, but the Farage-Tice party has got the Tories worried

    Nigel Farage, president and éminence grise of the Reform UK party
  • Monday, 12 February, 2024
    Conservative Party UK
    More Tories set to quit than before landslide 1997 defeat

    Veterans as well as relative newcomers are among party members planning to stand down at next general election

    RIshi Sunak
  • Thursday, 8 February, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Starmer’s gamble on ultra-cautiousness could store up trouble

    Rishi Sunak yet to effectively exploit Labour leader’s weakness, with his latest attack over trans rights drawing criticism

    Keir Starmer
  • Wednesday, 7 February, 2024
    Robert Shrimsley
    Mandates are overrated — Keir Starmer just needs the win

    Labour doesn’t need detailed pledges because if the party is voted in it will have scope for change

    Ewan White illustration of Keir Starmer giving a speech, while gesticulating wildly and pointing in both directions
  • Tuesday, 6 February, 2024
    UK politics
    Kwasi Kwarteng to stand down as MP at next UK election

    Former chancellor became synonymous with one of the most chaotic periods in recent political times

    Former chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng and Liz Truss at Tory party conference in 2022 during her brief period as prime minister
  • Sunday, 4 February, 2024
    Labour Party UK
    Labour delays plans to abolish House of Lords

    UK opposition party’s move comes as it hones policy platform ahead of general election

    Members of the House of Lords at the state opening of parliament in November
  • Saturday, 3 February, 2024
    Henry Mance
    Enough Tory gerrymandering — it’s checkmate for Sunak

    Even giving expat Brits the vote will not save the party from certain election defeat

    Rishi Sunak is shown a 3D printed chess set during a visit to the Friendship Technology Preparatory High School during his visit to Washington DC in the US last year
  • Sunday, 28 January, 2024
    Who will be the UK’s next top civil servant?

    Simon Case’s successor would be chosen by Keir Starmer if Labour wins the election

    Potential candidates include, from left: Sir Olly Robins, Dame Melanie Dawes, Antonia Romeo, Dame Sharon White and Sarah Healey
  • Tuesday, 23 January, 2024
    UK Government
    UK government rejects calls to widen list of ID types required to vote

    Review showed no case for changing controversial new rules, Downing Street says

    A polling station in Woking borough, UK
  • Tuesday, 23 January, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Starmer bets on swerving culture wars as he sets out Labour’s stall

    Plus, it’s in Rishi Sunak’s interest to hold an election in October or later, though speculation swirls over a May vote

    Keir Starmer
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