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UK politics

  • As many as 8.2 million people have work-limiting health conditions.

    Why Keir Starmer’s government is seeking to cut benefits bill

  • An Uber-branded private hire vehicle in central Manchester on a sunny day

    Taxi firms crowdfund legal battle with Uber over VAT on fares in UK

    Minicab drivers say Uber’s bid to apply tax to all rides would put many out of business and leave people stranded
  • Kim Johnson

    MP calls for inquiry into labelling of black pupils as ‘educationally subnormal’

    Kim Johnson tells parliament lessons must be learnt from poor treatment of children at institutions in 1960s and 70s

  • Labour loses its way on benefits reform – Politics Weekly UK

  • Is Nigel Farage losing his grip on Reform UK? – podcast

  • Decision not to classify Southport killer as a terrorist was right, says UK watchdog

  • Jonathan Reynolds ‘corrects record’ for referring to himself as ex-solicitor

  • AI should replace some work of civil servants, Starmer to announce

  • Keir Starmer could face biggest rebellion over disability benefit freeze

  • UK drops down list of affluent nations after decade of stagnation, NIESR finds

  • UK accuses Russia of driving its Moscow embassy towards closure

Opinion

  • Larry Elliott

    Labour needs an urgent history lesson. Its plans couldn’t fund a war and won’t boost growth

    Larry Elliott
  • Martin Kettle

    Though Starmer’s project is fragile, he’s taking one giant leap: to reconfigure the British state

    Martin Kettle
  • John Crace

    The fruit of flattery is tariffs, but Trump-wrangler Starmer takes it on the chin

    John Crace
  • Ben Jennings on Labour plans to cut disability benefits rather than impose a wealth tax – cartoon

    Ben Jennings on Labour plans to cut disability benefits rather than impose a wealth tax – cartoon

  • Timid FCA has retreated too far on its ‘name and shame’ proposals

    Nils Pratley

  • The government’s climate plans are still ambitious and on-track, so why is Labour making so much anti-green noise?

    Richard Power Sayeed

  • If you support streamlined planning, ask yourself this: what if someone built a new home on your roof?

    Kirsty Major

  • The Guardian view on the planning bill: new towns must be for people who need them

  • Labour used to give the needy the benefit of the doubt. Now they slash their benefits

    John Crace

  • The Nigel Farage v Rupert Lowe prize fight is getting ugly. Has Reform reached its breaking point?

    Marina Hyde

  • ‘Country first, party second,’ says Starmer. So why menace Labour members who actually believe that?

    Polly Toynbee

  • A big thank you to Reform for the comic relief in dark times

    John Crace

Features & Analysis

  • Keir Starmer in a crowd of people

    ‘People want change’: voter anger opens door for Reform in key Labour seats

  • Liz Kendall leaving a cabinet meeting

    ‘There is no moral case’: Labour divided over prospect of benefit cuts

  • Zelenskyy, Starmer and Macron in conversation at Lancaster House

    Art of a deal: how UK and France led dogged effort to repair US-Ukraine ties – for now

  • a man stands at a lectern

    ‘Dog-whistle v fog horn’: why Rupert Lowe’s reach on X may not cut through

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.

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Cartoons

  • Rebecca Hendin on the toxic combination of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin – cartoon

    Rebecca Hendin on the toxic combination of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin – cartoon

  • Ben Jennings on Donald Trump’s treatment of Ukraine – cartoon

    Ben Jennings on Donald Trump’s treatment of Ukraine – cartoon

    After his row with the US president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he is ‘fully committed’ to dialogue over a peace deal with Russia
  • Ella Baron on the USA’s changing international status – cartoon

    Ella Baron on the US’s changing international status – cartoon

    The nation that Britain and many others saw as an ally for so long may not be any longer

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