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October 2023

  • Claimants Jane Muthoni Mara, Wambugu Wa Nyingi and Paulo Muoka Nzili celebrate in Nairobi after the 2012 high court ruling allowing them to proceed with compensation claims against the UK government.

    King Charles, Britain already admitted to torture in Kenya, no need for you to choke on an apology

    Caroline Elkins
    The monarch will talk vaguely about ‘wrongs’ on his first official visit as head of state to a Commonwealth country. This blindness about the violence of empire must stop

September 2023

  • British home secretary Suella Braverman delivers a speech on global migration at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington DC.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Suella Braverman criticised by Labour over ‘deeply divisive’ migration speech – as it happened

  • Jeremy Hunt

    Treasury officials mull one-off break from pensions triple lock

  • Customs signs directing lorry drivers to the correct lanes for administration checks at Holyhead port in Wales.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Boris Johnson government ‘always hoped’ Northern Ireland protocol would collapse – as it happened

  • William Hague

    William Hague calls for end to ‘runaway train’ of pension triple lock

June 2023

  • Tony Blair

    AI could be most substantial policy challenge ever, say Blair and Hague

    Report says British state is poorly prepared for radical changes that AI could unleash

April 2023

  • First Minister Humza Yousaf

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    SNP in ‘total meltdown’ following arrests and party funding investigation, say Scottish Tories – as it happened

    Scotland’s first minister says he was ‘surprised’ to learn of Colin Beattie’s arrest but adds ‘people are innocent until proven guilty’

February 2023

  • Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak at PMQs.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Sunak suggests MPs will vote on proposed NI protocol deal and accuses Starmer of wanting to ‘surrender’ to EU – as it happened

    PM says Commons will be given a chance to ‘express its view’ on any final deal

January 2023

  • Kevin Courtney (left) and Mary Bousted, joint general secretaries of the National Education Union (NEU) speak to the media outside the Department of Education in London.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Firefighters vote for first national strike in 20 years as talks to avert teacher strikes fail – as it happened

  • Nadhim Zahawi outside 10 Downing Street.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    No 10 defends Zahawi after reports he paid millions to settle tax dispute – as it happened

June 2022

  • Graham Brady and two Tory colleagues

    Brady won’t rule out another no-confidence vote on Johnson within a year

  • Boris Johnson chairs a Cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street the morning after surviving a no-confidence vote.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Boris Johnson’s no-confidence vote: PM tells cabinet to ‘draw a line’ under Partygate after narrowly surviving bruising ballot – as it happened

May 2022

  • Sarah Boseley

    Let them eat junk food? Johnson seems to have forgotten how obesity put his life at risk

    Sarah Boseley
  • Liz Truss sets out her intention to bring forward legislation within weeks scrapping parts of the post-Brexit deal on Northern Ireland.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    EU to use ‘all measures at its disposal’ if UK abandons parts of Northern Ireland protocol – as it happened

April 2022

  • Viscount Althorp's 21st Birthday Party. Boris Johnson (centre) Arrives With Sister Rachel.<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Steve Back/ANL/REX/Shutterstock (1362859a)
Viscount Althorp's 21st Birthday Party. Boris Johnson (centre) Arrives With Sister Rachel. 
Viscount Althorp's 21st Birthday Party. Boris Johnson (centre) Arrives With Sister Rachel.

    The Audio Long Read
    ‘A nursery of the Commons’: how the Oxford Union created today’s ruling political class – podcast

    At the Oxford university debating society in the 80s, a generation of aspiring politicians honed the art of winning using jokes, rather than facts
  • Labour leader Keir Starmer

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Keir Starmer denies Partygate has distracted Labour from cost of living crisis – as it happened

    Labour’s leader says his party has a ‘laser-like focus on the cost of living’
  • Theresa May and Nicola Sturgeon

    From ‘Legs-it’ to ‘calm down, dear’: six times UK MPs have faced sexism

    After Angela Rayner was subject of sexist article, we look at other instances of misogyny in politics

September 2021

  • William Hague.

    ‘More than tricky winter’ ahead, warns Hague as energy bills soar

    Former Tory leader says shortages are inevitable and calls for elite ministerial team to tackle crisis

April 2021

  • David Cameron (left) and George Osborne make a speech during the Brexit referendum in 2016.

    Role call: the former ministers who found private sector jobs

    The Greensill affair shows how some of David Cameron’s appointees have been among the most enthusiastic corporate jobseekers. Here’s the list...

March 2021

  • Matt Hancock  in the Commons

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Search for missing Brazilian variant case narrows to 379 homes in south-east England, says Hancock

    Latest updates: health secretary updated Commons on Brazil variant; all Scottish pupils should be back in school full-time after Easter
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