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UK general election

  • Monday, 22 July, 2024
    UK employment
    Starmer pledges to ‘fire up’ the training of UK workers to boost growth

    Prime minister insists government will resist ‘easy lever’ of foreign labour

    Keir Starmer delivers a speech at Farnborough International Airshow
  • Monday, 22 July, 2024
    UK energy
    UK set to miss 2030 clean power targets, experts warn

    Analysis by Cornwall Insight points to scale of challenge in transitioning electricity system away from fossil fuels

    Offshore wind turbines
  • Saturday, 20 July, 2024
    Pensions
    ‘Government must act to avoid retirement crisis’

    Industry warns on pensions bill’s missed opportunity on minimum contributions

    Commuters at London’s Canary Wharf
  • Friday, 19 July, 2024
    UK politics
    UK seeks ‘regular’ EU meetings to rebuild post-Brexit relations

    Starmer’s new envoy wants to see Britain ‘reconnected on the world stage’

  • Friday, 19 July, 2024
    Camilla Cavendish
    Starmer’s machismo state is preparing for battle

    The King’s Speech identified a government ready for fights on housebuilding and welfare

    Illustration of piles of documents with King Charles’s crown balanced on top of one of the piles, against a background of pink wallpaper with a royal insignia design
  • Friday, 19 July, 2024
    Toby Nangle
    Change is under way at last in UK pensions

    New bill tackles some pressing issues but much more reform is needed

    A man places a coin in a white piggy bank in front of a Union Jack
  • Friday, 19 July, 2024
    UK employment
    Overhaul of workers’ rights raises alarm among employers

    Businesses say Labour’s proposals to give protection against unfair dismissal from day one lack clarity

    An Amazon delivery worker pulls a delivery cart full of packages
  • Thursday, 18 July, 2024
    Robert Shrimsley
    Keir Starmer’s never-ending insurgency

    Those around the prime minister want to wage a permanent campaign for change that voters will give them credit for

    Illustration of Keir Starmer in a beret with a red start on it against a red background
  • Wednesday, 17 July, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Labour’s Britain champions a more active state

    The government should strive to be an enabler, not a controller

    King Charles III and Queen Camilla lead a procession through the House of Lords
  • Wednesday, 17 July, 2024
    UK tax
    HMRC clamps down on abuse of tax-saving workplace childcare scheme

    Employers are failing to meet the eligibility criteria as third party ‘agents’ reap profits, experts warn

    A child playing at nursery
  • Tuesday, 16 July, 2024
    Labour party UK
    Labour to hold majority of select committee chair roles

    Party’s share of top oversight roles in parliament set to more than double after election victory

    Sir Keir Starmer
  • Monday, 15 July, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Why the Conservatives are in no rush to find a new leader

    A longer leadership contest helps MPs build momentum around their preferred candidates — and it worked in 2005

    Kemi Badenoch is sworn in as MP in July 2024
  • Sunday, 14 July, 2024
    Josh Simons
    To beat the populist right, Labour must be an insurgent government

    Politicians in the main parties have been put on notice and given a simple mandate by insecure voters: fix things

    A rosette badge on the jacket of a supporter of Reform UK
  • Sunday, 14 July, 2024
    Scottish National party
    SNP funding pressures weigh on party after bruising election

    Defeat at the hands of Labour means the nationalists have just £358,000 of annual funding from Westminster, down from £1.3mn

    John Swinney
  • Saturday, 13 July, 2024
    Labour party UK
    Corbyn and other independent MPs form loose coalition to pressure Labour

    Pro-Palestine grouping seeks to push Sir Keir Starmer on Gaza stance and UK arms sales to Israel

    Jeremy Corbyn and Iqbal Mohamed on stage with other campaigners at a pro-Palestine protest in London on Saturday
  • Saturday, 13 July, 2024
    Jo Ellison
    The brassy brilliance of Angela Rayner 

    Forget the critics, the deputy prime minister is the most relatable MP I’ve ever seen

  • Friday, 12 July, 2024
    Labour party UK
    Starmer’s relegation of 31 Labour MPs and peers creates cohort of potential troublemakers

    Prime minister promotes several newcomers straight into junior front bench roles

    Emily Thornberry
  • Friday, 12 July, 2024
    The Big Read
    How will Rachel Reeves run the UK’s finances?

    The chancellor’s mission to stoke economic growth faces dire headwinds, and might call for harsh trade-offs

  • Friday, 12 July, 2024
    News in-depthReform party UK
    Can Reform win over Labour’s heartlands?

    Nigel Farage’s vow to build a ‘national movement’ rings alarm bells after slew of second-place election results

    Reform UK’s Richard Tice, left, and Nigel Farage launch the party’s manifesto in Merthyr Tydfil in June
  • Friday, 12 July, 2024
    News in-depthNorthern Ireland
    Northern Ireland’s unionists grapple with fragmenting support

    Political bloc struggles to rally behind a united message and broaden its appeal

    Bonfires form part of celebrations to mark Protestant King William III’s victory over Catholic King James at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690
  • Friday, 12 July, 2024
    Claire Ainsley
    Labour must heed warnings from the global centre-left

    Politics loves a winner but counterparts around the world face the perils of incumbency

    Keir Starmer leans over and shakes hands with Joe Biden
  • Friday, 12 July, 2024
    Data PointsJohn Burn-Murdoch
    Why is the populist right surging across Europe, but not Britain?

    It would be naive to see the UK as immune to this phenomenon; Reform UK is not yet ready

    Marine Le Pen, Nigel Farage and Giorgia Meloni with red and blue graph lines running behind them
  • Thursday, 11 July, 2024
    Nigel Farage
    Nigel Farage set to return to GB News

    Reform UK’s leader had previously hosted a show but stepped down when the election was called

    Nigel Farage on GB News
  • Thursday, 11 July, 2024
    Free LunchMartin Sandbu
    Labour’s ‘seatslide’: when a landslide is not a mandate Premium content

    (And a mandate is not a landslide)

    Keir Starmer waves as he stands in front of a lectern with the slogan ‘Change begins’ as supporters standing behind him applaud and wave flags
  • Thursday, 11 July, 2024
    Alan Beattie
    The immigration dilemma Labour hopes will go away

    Starmer’s government faces a familiar trade-off between the economics and the politics of foreign workers

    An inflatable craft carrying migrants crosses the shipping lane in the English Channel
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