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UK politics
  • Mayor of London Sadiq Khan visiting a foundation in Brixton last week.

    Live
    Labour’s Khan has 22-point lead over Tory rival in London mayoral race, poll suggests – UK politics live

  • Frank Hester

    Tory chair refuses to say whether party took further £5m from Frank Hester

    Richard Holden says Hester apologised for remarks about Diane Abbott and ‘we should accept that’
  • Head and shoulders shot of Adam Price

    Welsh Senedd members consider criminalising lying by politicians

    Ex-Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price, a leading proponent, says credibility gap in politics has become ‘gaping chasm’

  • Ex-England cricketer among hundreds to stand for George Galloway’s party

  • Home Office has lost contact with thousands of potential Rwanda deportees, data shows

  • Asylum seekers in UK should have right to work after six months, MPs say

  • Secret Thatcher-era memo undermines Sunak’s plan to scrap national insurance

  • Scotland’s first minister Humza Yousaf resigns

  • Mentally ill people being used as ‘political football’, campaigners say

  • SNP looks to unity candidate after Humza Yousaf quits as first minister

  • Jonathan Dimbleby urges MPs to ‘get off the fence’ on assisted dying

Opinion

  • Marina Hyde

    It seems certain Sunak will lead the Tories into the local elections. After that, regicide as usual

    Marina Hyde
  • Frances Ryan

    So UK ministers want to fob off disabled people with vouchers? It’s like government by Groupon

    Frances Ryan
  • Polly Toynbee

    It’s Sunak’s doom loop: the more desperate and cruel the Tories become, the more voters reject them

    Polly Toynbee
  • Simon Jenkins

    Patients maimed by infected blood, innocents jailed, lives ruined. We want real justice – not inquiries

    Simon Jenkins

  • Humza Yousaf’s unravelling tenure shows how short and brutish political lives have become

    John Crace

  • The Guardian view on Humza Yousaf’s resignation: miscalculation leads to crisis

  • The Guardian view on the Tories and Rwanda: speeding up deportations looks desperate

  • Achaz von Hardenberg on the plummeting fortunes of Rishi Sunak and Humza Yousaf – cartoon

  • Humza Yousaf’s clumsiness meant he had to jump – but Westminster also gave him a push

    Rory Scothorne

  • Yes, prime minister, it’s a scandal so many of us are signed off work. Maybe you Tories should stop making us ill

    Zoe Williams

  • There’s a hard-right tidal wave about to hit Europe – and it will only make the economic crisis worse

    Gordon Brown

  • The Guardian view on rethinking economics: a discipline in disarray holds too much sway in the UK

Features & Analysis

  • The pollsters have Reform UK slightly ahead of the Tories in the Greater Manchester mayoral race.

    Reform UK hoping to inflict damage on Tories in Blackpool and beyond

  • Humza Yousaf with hand on his head

    Humza Yousaf inherited a deeply fractured SNP – as will his successor

  • Friday prayers at Ahmadiyya Mosque, Huddersfield.

    ‘The hot topic is the war’: West Yorkshire’s Muslim voters feel politically homeless

  • ‘I’m still traumatised by Brexit’ … Ben Bradshaw.

    ‘I still think Tony was right on Iraq’: Labour’s Ben Bradshaw on Blair, Brexit and battling homophobia
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
  • Nicola Jennings on Rishi Sunak and Humza Yousaf’s troubles – cartoon

    Nicola Jennings on the troubles of Rishi Sunak and Humza Yousaf – cartoon

  • A row of four watchdogs - a hairy dog with a dog tag labelled Ofcom saying “Toothless”, a bedraggled dog with a dog tag labelled Ofwat saying “Stinky”, a poodle with a dog tag labelled Ofsted saying “Inadequate”, and a small fat supine dog with a dog tag labelled Oftory saying “ Look, let’s be absolutely clear about this, with all due respect none of this is our fault, what about the sick note culture, Angela Rayner’s mortgage, NHS efficiency savings paying for defence spending? And growth - what about growth? Please, please vote for us when we finally let you have your say and, er, Stop the boats!

    Chris Riddell on how one-word Ofsted assessments would apply to the Tory party – cartoon

    The school assessor’s minimalist judgments are here to stay. But how would inspectors rate the government?
  • Martin Rowson on the travails of Humza Yousaf – cartoon

    Martin Rowson on the travails of Humza Yousaf – cartoon

    Scotland’s first minister faces motions of no confidence from Labour and the Conservatives after ending his power-sharing deal with the Green party

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