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UK politics

  • British chancellor of the exchequer Jeremy Hunt.

    Jeremy Hunt urged to honour pledge on infected blood compensation payouts

  • A dilapidated children's playground showing rust and chipped paint

    Archbishop of Canterbury urges Starmer to ditch ‘cruel’ two-child benefit cap

    Head of Church of England Justin Welby tells Observer that ending policy would lift thousands of children out of poverty
  • The biometric residence permit

    Fears of new Windrush as thousands of UK immigrants face ‘cliff edge’ visa change

    Campaigners say move to electronic permits by the end of the year is a ‘recipe for disaster’ that could leave immigrants without proof of status

  • Ministers clawing back £251m from carers hit by DWP’s allowance failures

  • Alcohol abuse costing £27bn a year in England

  • Jeremy Hunt accused of exaggerating Tories’ economic record

  • David Lammy says his family links to slavery will inform political approach

  • UK politics: Vaughan Gething says Plaid Cymru ‘walked away from opportunity to deliver for Wales’ as it ends cooperation agreement - as it happened

  • Peer faces year’s ban from Lords bars for bullying two people while drunk

  • Plaid Cymru ends cooperation deal with Labour-led Welsh government

  • UK to look at security implications of Křetínský Royal Mail bid

Opinion

  • Lonely little boy looking out of the window

    The two-child benefit cap in the UK is unfair and doesn’t work

    Bishop of Leicester
  • Tim Burrows

    Starmer thought he’d found the nation’s pulse in Essex. Here’s what ‘Essex man’ made of him

    Tim Burrows
  • Jonathan Freedland

    Beware the Biden factor, Keir Starmer: you can govern well and still risk losing the country

    Jonathan Freedland
  • Drugs From European Pharmaceuticals Companies As Stocks Outperformed The Stoxx 600 Index By 1.2 percentage Points<br>A pharmacist collects medications for prescriptions at a pharmacy in London, U.K., on Monday, Dec. 14, 2015. European pharmaceuticals stocks in 2015 have outperformed the Stoxx 600 Index by 1.2 percentage points in U.S. dollar terms. Photographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg via Getty Images

    I love being a pharmacist, but the UK’s drug shortage makes me want to give up – and Brexit makes it worse

    Mike Hewitson

  • British MPs are attacking abortion rights. We can’t follow the same path as the US

    Hilary Freeman

  • The Tories’ war on foreign students isn’t for the good of the country – it’s about saving their own skins

    Polly Toynbee

  • The Guardian view on Labour’s election campaign: Keir Starmer sounded like a prime minister in waiting

  • The chancellor should ditch the NatWest retail share offer. It’s not needed

    Nils Pratley

  • Starmer takes it step by step in the phoney war that is a general election campaign

    John Crace

  • Here’s one way to boost investment in UK plc: make our unions more powerful

    Larry Elliott

  • The 7 October Hamas attack opened a space – and antisemitism filled it. British Jews are living with the consequences

    Dave Rich

  • Our democracy desperately needs a reset – and, behind the scenes, that’s the plan

    Martin Kettle

Features & Analysis

  • Gordon Brown at a multibank warehouse in Fife

    ‘People haven’t woken up to the scale of this’: Gordon Brown on the UK’s child poverty scandal

  • A pack of cyclists approach on the Outer Ring of Regent's Park

    Spinning out of control? Cyclists say MPs are peddling fears over road safety

  • Jeremy Hunt gestures while speaking in front of a sign that says: "rises"

    How accurate are Jeremy Hunt’s claims about the UK economy?

  • A young man helping an elderly man use his laptop

    Carer’s allowance report a vivid insight into failings of an unfit system

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

  • Illustration of a wounded Russian bear crushing Kharkiv

    Chris Riddell on Russia’s advance on Kharkiv – cartoon

  • Martin Rowson on climate change, and the price of olive oil – cartoon

    Martin Rowson on climate change, and the price of olive oil – cartoon

    Drought last year in Europe forced prices up – and with global heating continuing, they are unlikely to come down again
  • Ben Jennings on Keir Starmer’s ‘first steps for change’ – cartoon

    Ben Jennings on Keir Starmer’s ‘first steps for change’ – cartoon

    The party leader puts his key pledges ‘up in lights’ to win over swing voters in the general election

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