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  • A child receives a dose of polio vaccine in Ghana

    Dismay as UK poised to cut funding for global vaccination group Gavi

  • Bibby Stockholm barge.

    Record number of asylum seekers died in 2024 while in care of Home Office

    Data obtained by the Guardian shows 51 people died in Home Office provided accommodation in 2024
  • Envelopes with HM Revenue and Customs printed on them on top of bank notes

    UK tax administration costs spiralling due to complex system, says watchdog

    Businesses pay hundreds of millions of pounds more and losing trust in HMRC, reports National Audit Office

  • Campaign launched to make public toilets a legal requirement in Britain

  • Home Office launches new immigration raids as it vaunts deportation numbers

  • Burnley MP Oliver Ryan investigated by Labour over ‘unacceptable’ WhatsApp comments

  • Britain’s system for controlling arms exports is broken, former diplomat claims

  • M&S boss says UK retailers being ‘raided like a piggy bank’ over planned tax rises

  • GB Energy faces ‘challenging’ task to find CEO for Aberdeen HQ, sources say

  • Air pollution causing 1,100 cases a year of main form of lung cancer in UK

  • Labour urged to defend workers’ rights bill as poll shows huge public support

Opinion

  • A family searches amid the rubble of their home destroyed by the Israeli army in Jabaliya, Gaza, 5 February 2025

    I saw illegality and complicity with war crimes. That’s why I quit the UK Foreign Office

    Mark Smith
  • Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves at the Bank of England in the City of London on 21 September 2023.

    The Guardian view on interest rates: the Bank of England on its own won’t revive growth

  • John Harris

    Starmer’s dislike of real politics is plain to see. It’s why his government has no direction

    John Harris
  • Leah Downey

    You may not like Trump, but his power grab for the economic levers is right. Liberals, take note!

    Leah Downey

  • Air traffic control to Sir Keir: turbulence ahead

    Stewart Lee

  • Promoting green growth does not make you an ‘eco-nutter’. It’s the only way forward

    Will Hutton

  • Global leaders have a selective view of sovereignty. It matters, as long as it’s in their interests

    Kenan Malik

  • The surge in support for Reform is making Labour nervous. Now it needs a plan

    Andrew Rawnsley

  • Gen Z finds democracy dull because it knows so little about history

    Letters

  • Labour’s clean energy plan will not only cut emissions but lift hundreds of thousands out of fuel poverty

    Ed Miliband

  • Proper care for people who are struggling isn’t ‘soft’ – it saves cash

    Phillip Inman

  • Digested week: cheap meat and Corfe Castle – a toast to Brexit five years on

    John Crace

Features & Analysis

  • Rows of Conservative MPs look on as Kemi Badenoch speaks during prime minister's questions in the House of Commons

    ‘Kemi hates doing media’: Tory anxiety after 100 days of Badenoch leadership

  • The Princess of Wales at the National Portrait Gallery in London this month, to launch a new project to help young children develop social and emotional skills

    From ribbon cutting to real-world impact: how William and Kate are treading a fine political line

  • Nigel Farage makes a speech, his hand stretching towards the camera

    Nigel Farage has been a threat to every recent UK prime minister. But this is something new

  • A modern, glassy industrial building in a grassed campus setting, flying a union jack on its flagpole

    AstraZeneca, Whitehall, and a failed £450m deal for the next generation in vaccines. What went wrong?

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

  • Ella Baron on Elon Musk butchering USAid - cartoon

    Ella Baron on Elon Musk butchering USAid – cartoon

  • Donald Trump in a hard hat standing in front of a billboard showing a luxury beach resort with the slogan ‘Gaza- Riviera of the Middle East’. Behind the billboard is a mountain of rubble. Trump clutches rolled up blueprints labelled ‘Greenland Gold Mine’, ‘Ukraine Baba Yaga Theme Park’ and ‘Panama Water World’. Netanyahu is grasping Trump’s coat tails and smiling broadly as Trump says “Don’t worry, Bibi, I’ve got this…”

    Chris Riddell on Donald Trump’s plan to take over and redevelop Gaza – cartoon

    The US president said he wanted Palestinians to leave, in an announcement widely condemned as ethnic cleansing
  • Martin Rowson on Trump’s Gaza Riviera – cartoon

    Martin Rowson on Trump’s Gaza riviera – cartoon

    The US president’s plans for the Strip suggest his pro-settler advisers are in the ascendant

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