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  • white Storm Shadow missile on display at the Paris Air Show

    UK cabinet ministers barred from visiting Russia amid missile row

  • Chancellor Rachel Reeves speaking at the CBI conference in London on 25 November

    Russia imposes travel ban on cabinet ministers, calling it retaliation for ‘Russophobic’ policies – as it happened

    Kremlin bans UK cabinet ministers including Rachel Reeves, Angela Rayner and Yveette Cooper from entering country
  • Bibby Stockholm

    Final asylum seekers have now left the Bibby Stockholm

    Most claims from 400 men on vessel moored in Portland, Dorset have been processed, with majority accepted

  • Labour urges inquiry into claims Lee Anderson was offered money to join Reform

  • Well-paid partners in City firms escape paying national insurance rises

  • Environmental grants promised to farmers in England frozen

  • UK government seeks meeting with Trump team over Chagos Islands agreement

  • Assisted dying could have major impact on courts, says ex-chief justice

  • From Egypt to India, five jailed men who feel abandoned by Britain

  • Premier League and Channel 4 to train teenagers in Labour’s £45m work drive

  • FCA is ‘incompetent at best, dishonest at worst’, claim MPs and peers

Opinion

  • John Crace

    The gospel according to Boris Johnson: it’s the church’s fault our kids are overweight

    John Crace
  • Marina Hyde

    Elon Musk and a mass petition want a new UK election. Shall we do that – or just stick to democracy?

    Marina Hyde
  • Gaby Hinsliff

    Ignore the online CV truthers. If anything, Rachel Reeves is overqualified to be UK chancellor

    Gaby Hinsliff
  • Polly Toynbee

    I have campaigned for assisted dying all my life. This once-in-a-generation chance mustn’t be wasted

    Polly Toynbee

  • The Guardian view on benefit reforms: ministers should enable work – not force it

  • Is it time for another general election? I mean, it’s been four months

    John Crace

  • Here’s what I learned at Cop29. Rows aside, an unstoppable transition to clean energy is happening

    Ed Miliband

  • Labour could be knocked off course as it sticks to £40bn mission

    Heather Stewart

  • Faced with many foes, Labour needs to get out of its defensive crouch and on to the front foot

    Andrew Rawnsley

  • Without the EU, the joke is on us if Trump gets his tariffs

    William Keegan

  • Voters must learn to accept that Britain’s challenges are too big to solve straight away

    Sonia Sodha

  • Why it was such a joy to interview John Prescott and discover his sweet, sad soul

    Rachel Cooke

Features & Analysis

  • Nigel Farage holding his arms wide in front of a Welsh flag

    ‘More straight talking’: How Reform UK is gaining support in Wales

  • Aerial image of flooded caravans beside a river

    Storm Bert offers stark reminder of UK’s underfunded flood defences

  • An AI generated image under scrutiny by Meta’s content moderation board

    How the far right is weaponising AI-generated content in Europe

  • Flood water inside Storyville Books

    ‘No lessons have been learned’: as floods recede, anger rises in south Wales valleys

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

  • Martin Rowson on Donald Trump’s plan to impose trade tariffs – cartoon

    Martin Rowson on Donald Trump’s plan to impose trade tariffs – cartoon

  • Ben Jennings on the UK’s assisted dying bill – cartoon

    Ben Jennings on the UK’s assisted dying bill – cartoon

    MPs are preparing to vote on a bill to legalise assisted dying for terminally ill people in England and Wales later this week
  • Nicola Jennings on a Britain beset by stormy weather – cartoon

    Nicola Jennings on a Britain beset by stormy weather – cartoon

    As the second age of Trump looms, Putin’s shadow war against the west breaks cover in the form of the missile crisis

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