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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

  • A standing Nigel Farage speaking with a Reform logo in the background

    Reform UK can win scores of Labour seats in England and Wales, says study

    Analysis of a mega poll shows Keir Starmer would lose more seats than Tories amid voter discontent with main parties
  • Richard Tice and Isabel Oakeshott in Skegness, and the skyline of Dubai, where Oakeshott now lives.

    Reform deputy leader Richard Tice splitting time between Skegness and Dubai after partner leaves UK

  • Keir Starmer speaking to a packed House of Commons

    Labour staff balloted on pay freeze as election win hits party finances

  • British leader of the Liberal Democrats party Ed Davey attends a general election campaign event, in Cotswolds<br>British leader of the Liberal Democrats party Ed Davey reacts as he rides a towable inflatable during a visit to Lakeside Ski &amp; Wake, in Cotswolds, Britain, July 1, 2024. REUTERS/Hollie Adams

    Lib Dem report says leftwing alliance not needed because of tactical voting

  • Polling station sign

    Turnout inequality in UK elections close to tipping point, report warns

  • Nick Candy, Elon Musk and Nigel Farage standing in front of a portrait of Donald Trump

    Labour fears grow as Reform eyes victories in local election battleground

In depth

  • Ed Davey goes bungee-jumping Eastbourne, East Sussex

    ‘Bizarrely, I enjoyed bungee jumping!’ How Ed Davey became the Tom Cruise of British politics

  • Liz Truss at the South West Norfolk election count

    ‘Even diehard Conservatives would not vote for her’: how Liz Truss tried to remake herself after her spectacular election defeat

    • 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

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

  • John Harris

    I travelled up and down the UK this year. One album sums up what I saw

    John Harris
  • 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

Multimedia

  • Guardian Weekly cover illustration | Did democracy survive?

    Did democracy survive the 2024 global election marathon?

  • 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

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