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Rowena Mason

Rowena Mason is the Guardian's Whitehall editor

  • Police in hi-viz jackets and a medic as a person appears to be detained

    Immigration lawyers ‘at risk’ amid far-right threats to target advice centres

    Police chiefs announce deployment of extra 2,200 riot officers as list of 60 immigration centres circulated online
  • Police officers detain people after unrest in Plymouth on Monday evening.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    UK riots live: Keir Starmer promises communities ‘will be safe’ following Cobra meeting

    Prime minister refuses to be drawn over comments made by X owner Elon Musk about ongoing disorder in UK
  • Elon Musk at a conference in Paris, 2023

    Elon Musk calls PM ‘two-tier Keir’ over police response to UK riots

    Owner of X uses platform to promote conspiracy theory that white far-right ‘protesters’ involved in disorder are treated more severely than minorities
  • Men spray fire extinguishers at police officers wearing riot gear outside a hotel in Rotherham

    Second hotel attacked as Starmer warns rioters they will ‘regret it’ – as it happened

    Public urged to avoid Holiday Inn in Tamworth after people earlier smashed windows of hotel housing asylum seekers in Rotherham
  • Keir Starmer speaking in Downing Street on Sunday

    Keir Starmer decisive on mob violence but faces dilemma over Reform

  • Nigel Farage making his maiden speech in the Commons

    Watchdog should investigate Farage’s ‘dangerous comments’, says Liverpool MP

  • Rioters clash with police outside of the Holiday Inn Express in Manvers, Rotherham, which is being used to house asylum seekers.

    Starmer to lead Cobra meeting after vowing swift justice awaits ‘far-right thugs’

  • Downing Street and Whitehall street signs

    UK civil servants could be given means to raise ethical concerns, report suggests

  • ‘Nick them quick’ approach to be used against UK rioters, minister says

  • Dozens arrested across UK as Cooper says ‘violent thugs will pay the price’ – as it happened

  • Suella Braverman wears a teal green dress. She is pictured from the side and her hair is flying out behind her as she walks. In the background is a grey brick wall

    How Suella Braverman went from darling of the Tory right to outcast

    One-time likely successor to party leadership has seen supporters desert her and rumours fly over a defection to Reform
  • A line of police in riot gear face stand in a line opposite protesters next to the Cenotaph

    Riot police on standby across England and Wales for further far-right protests

  • Protesters clash with police in Westminster following the knife attacks in Southport.

    Police brace for more far-right riots as minister warns people about rallies in wake of Southport attack – as it happened

  • British PM Starmer gives speech from behind podium following Southport stabbing

    Starmer refuses to criticise Farage after Southport conspiracy theory accusations

  • Kemi Badenoch

    Badenoch campaign team member used offensive names about a councillor

  • Nigel Farage

    Former counter-terror chief accuses Farage of inciting Southport violence

  • Rayner in a hi-vis gilet

    Planning changes will not mean ‘load of ugly houses’, says Rayner

  • The chancellor, Rachel Reeves

    Millions of UK public sector workers set for above-inflation pay rise

    Rachel Reeves is expected to accept pay review body recommendations in move that could cost up to £10bn
  • Bridget Phillipson said there were fears the act could be ‘burdensome’ on universities.

    UK politics: Labour puts Tories’ ‘freedom of speech’ law for universities on hold – as it happened

    Controversial measure is paused with the education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, indicating that it could be repealed
  • Kemi Badenoch

    Kemi Badenoch accuses Conservative leadership rival of ‘dirty tricks’

    Shadow minister turns on critics over claims she was behind abusive blog comments written 17 years ago
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