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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

Latest news

  • Jess Phillips, holding Labour campaign leaflets, walking down a residential street

    Ministers urged to act over physical and online intimidation in UK election

    MPs and candidates who faced abuse discuss polling station buffer zones and action to tackle social media
  • Green party town councillor Clare Weightman and Lib Dem parliamentary candidate Paul Follows chat outside Godalming town council

    Greens expel Surrey members who allegedly backed tactical voting against Jeremy Hunt

  • Clockwise from top left: Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Anish Kapoor, India Amarteifio, Sir Lenny Henry, Kamila Shamsie, David Harewood, Adjoa Andoh and Paterson Joseph.

    UK voter ID laws attack ‘democratic rights of people of colour’, say artists in open letter

  • Heather Iqbal smiles as she poses for a picture in front of a stone wall

    Labour candidate who lost to new pro-Gaza MP accuses his backers of intimidation

  • Gillian Keegan, Tobias Ellwood and Penny Mourdaunt

    Tories who lost seats at general election want formal role in leadership race

  • A person leans against a phonebox while facing away from the camera

    ‘Despair and anger’: minority groups in Reform seats adjust to life after its election success

In depth

  • Asha Puthli, singer, songwriter.

    Original Observer Photography

  • Yvette Cooper out on an urban street with a police woman on one side of her and a police man on the other

    ‘Constant abuse’: three UK candidates on their election 2024 experience

    • Britain's Conservative party opposition leader Rishi Sunak reacts during a debate in the House of Commons in London, on 17 July.

      The Conservative party faces an onerous task to rebuild itself, and every Tory must have a say

      Tobias Ellwood
    • Danny Sriskandarajah, British-Australian activist, born in Sri Lanka, who runs the UK thinktank the New Economics Foundation

      The radical who left Oxfam to fight for democracy: ‘Eight men have the same wealth as half the world. Where does this end?’

    • Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg speaks to the media after losing his seat.

      From Jacob Rees-Mogg to Jonathan Ashworth: unseated MPs recall best moments

Marina Hyde’s campaign trail

  • 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

Path to power

  • 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

Reality check

  • 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

  • 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
    • Andrew Rawnsley

      Call off the search to discover Starmerism. It is already beginning to reveal itself

      Andrew Rawnsley
    • Vaughan Gething

      The Guardian view on Vaughan Gething: the election victory hid a weakness in Wales

    • The shadow cabinet in 2006, with David Lidington front row, second left, front rowstand outside at the Racquet Club in Liverpool, Monday March 6, 2006, after a meeting. They are: (front L to R) Theresa May, David Lidington, Theresa Villiers, David Cameron, William Hague, Cheryl Gillan, Peter Ainsworth Caroline Spelman, (middle L to R) Oliver Letwin, Alan Duncan, Andrew Mitchell, David Willetts, Andrew Lansley, (back L to R) David Davis, Patrick McLoughlin, George Osborne, David Mundell, Chris Grayling, Phllip Hammond, Francis Maude, and Oliver Heald. See PA Story POLITICS Tories. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Photo credit should read: Andrew Parsons/Pool/PA.

      I suffered 13 years in opposition – here’s my advice to my despairing fellow Tories

      David Lidington

Multimedia

  • 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

  • Speaking from No 10, Starmer said he would set off on Sunday to visit all four UK nations before attending the Nato summit in Washington

    Keir Starmer vows to focus on 'delivery and service' as he sets out first week as PM – video

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