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UK politics

  • Sadiq Khan in London on Saturday

    Live
    Sadiq Khan wins historic third term as London mayor after Andy Burnham takes Manchester – live

  • Sadiq Khan illustration

    Sadiq Khan elected London mayor for third term in further boost for Labour

    Labour incumbent beat Tory candidate Susan Hall, despite inaccurate claims by ‘excited Tories’ that she might run him close
  • Election results May 2024 for local councils - live results

    Local elections 2024: full mayoral and council results for England

    Results from more than 100 English councils, as well as for several mayors, are announced. So far the Conservatives have suffered extensive council losses but have won the Tees Valley mayoral contest. Find out what happened in your area

  • Headteachers demand end to ‘inhumane’ school ratings in England

  • NHS mental health trust failings linked to more than 30 deaths in Norfolk and Suffolk

  • Tories may drop autumn statement pledging more tax cuts before election

  • Labour condemns party source’s ‘racist’ West Midlands comment

  • What are the key mayoral and local election results still to come?

  • Conservatives crushed by ‘worst local election result’ in years

  • Key points as local election results show major Tory losses

  • Labour’s Claire Ward elected first mayor of East Midlands as Sunak gets boost in Tees Valley after Tory losses – live

Opinion

  • A stag surveys the land in Glencoe, Scotland.

    The SNP may be laid low but the call of Scottish independence is loud and clear

    Neal Ascherson
  • Jonathan Freedland

    Triumphant Starmer already seems like the prime minister. Now his troubles really begin

    Jonathan Freedland
  • Martin Rowson on Boris Johnson turning up to vote without ID – cartoon

    Martin Rowson on Boris Johnson turning up to vote without ID – cartoon

  • John Crace

    Tories take refuge in fantasy as local election drubbing becomes clear

    John Crace

  • Did we really expect Tory MPs who fought for voter ID rules to follow them? Don’t be ridiculous

    Marina Hyde

  • After the local election results, how confident should Labour feel about the next election? Our panel responds

    Rafael Behr, Katy Balls, Nadeine Asbali, John McDonnell, Dal Babu, Sarah Longlands, Peter Kellner and Archie MacKay

  • Digested week: kids’ art and sending Boris packing – the poll clerks’ small joys

    Esther Addley

  • After this week’s squalid experiment, see voter ID for what it is: a Tory scam to steal elections

    Andy Beckett

  • Disappearing migrants and street revolts. Sunak’s Rwanda round-up is just the mess we knew it would be

    Gaby Hinsliff

  • I have a cure for our ailing democracy: ban all donors, British and foreign. Run politics on membership fees

    George Monbiot

  • The Guardian view on Rishi Sunak’s future: Britain needs a general election, not another Tory leadership contest

  • The Guardian view on English lessons: make classrooms more creative again

Features & Analysis

  • Protesters clashing with police officers

    ‘Lots of fear’: how the Rwanda deportation crackdown led to panic and protests

  • Map graphic for data analysis piece

    Big Tory losses but no Labour landslide. What might happen at Westminster? – a visual analysis

  • Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey holding party signs with supporters

    ‘Tories are woeful’: Lib Dems a whisker away from Wokingham majority

  • Rishi Sunak leaves Downing Street

    Blackpool verdict looks like electoral death sentence for Tories

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

  • no chance saloon rishi

    Chris Riddell on Rishi Sunak, sitting in no-chance saloon after local elections drubbing – cartoon

  • Martin Rowson on John Swinney formally entering the SNP leadership contest – cartoon

    Martin Rowson on John Swinney formally entering the SNP leadership contest – cartoon

    Nicola Sturgeon’s former deputy is hoping to replace Humza Yousaf as leader of the SNP
  • Nicola Jennings on Rishi Sunak’s local-elections day of reckoning – cartoon

    Nicola Jennings on Rishi Sunak’s local-elections day of reckoning – cartoon

    The prime minister will find himself under renewed pressure if results go against the Conservative party

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