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  • Zarah Sultana on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg

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    Your Party’s Sultana suggests ‘electoral alliances’ could help stop Farage – UK politics live

    Sultana says Labour party has ‘left the scene’ as she says she ‘gets on really well’ with Greens’ Polanski
  • Zelenskyy and Starmer face to face with flags behind

    Zelenskyy to meet Starmer at Downing Street to discuss US draft peace deal

  • Malcolm Offord, left, with Nigel Farage on a podium with a mic

    Farage dodges press as he unveils Reform’s first peer after Conservative defection

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    Senior DWP civil servant blames victims for carer’s allowance scandal

  • A woman wearing red with a headband inspects the brochure for the Labour party conference

    Trans women to be barred from main Labour women’s conference in 2026

  • A man runs into the Cabinet Office

    Retired UK civil servant ordered to pay back £25,000 after pension scheme error

  • Nigel Farage

    Broadcaster targeted with racist slurs accuses Farage of emboldening ‘toxic environment’ online

Opinion

  • Heather Stewart

    Forcing UK banks to support credit unions would help keep loan sharks at bay

    Heather Stewart
    High street banks dodged a windfall tax – now they should invest in growth of local lenders
  • John Crace

    Beware the Liz Truss chatshow: viewers will require survivor therapy

    John Crace
  • Dani Garavelli

    Nigel Farage was once run out of Edinburgh. Now Scottish voters are embracing his rabble-rousing

    Dani Garavelli
  • Yinka Bankole standing in a winter coat on a pavement beside a park, looking off-camera

    I’ll never forget the look of hatred Nigel Farage had for me at school, simply for existing

    Yinka Bankole
  • Keir Starmer visit to children's centre - WalesPrime Minister Sir Keir Starmer during a visit to the Ely & Caerau Children's Centre in Cardiff, to announce his Government's commitment with the Welsh Government to tackling child poverty, following the publication of the UK Government's UK wide Child Poverty Strategy. Picture date: Friday December 5, 2025. PA Photo. Photo credit should read: Peter Byrne/PA Wire

    The Guardian view on reducing child poverty: with the two-child limit gone, Labour must go further

  • Marina Hyde

    The Liz Truss Show will confront the big issues of the day. For example: who on earth would watch Liz Truss?

    Marina Hyde
  • Will Hayward

    I don’t care if Reform calls me a bad word on WhatsApp. But the story behind its gaffe is far more worrying

    Will Hayward
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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Features & analysis

  • Red caps say: Make America pray again

    Faith and Reform: is the religious right on the rise in UK politics?

  • Mayor of the Liverpool city region Steve Rotheram.

    From bricklayer to mayor: Steve Rotheram is quietly building a Liverpool success story

  • Jurors in court

    ‘A move towards an authoritarian state’: what those with trial experience think of removing juries

  • Bunting consisting of EU and union flags

    ‘The only idea around’: will Labour return to a customs union with the EU?

Cartoons

  • Rebecca Hendin on potential political candidates - cartoon

    Rebecca Hendin on potential political candidates – cartoon

    Is your political party struggling? Maybe it’s time for it to refresh its lineup
  • Ben Jennings on racism allegations surrounding Nigel Farage’s schooldays – cartoon

    Ben Jennings on the racism allegations surrounding Nigel Farage’s schooldays – cartoon

  • Ella Baron on Rachel Reeves’ fiscal rules – cartoon

    Ella Baron on Rachel Reeves’s fiscal rules – cartoon

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