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UK politics

  • he sign outside the Home Office in Westminster, London,

    Calls for Home Office to protect asylum seekers after accommodation violence

  • Children raising their hands in a classroom

    The financial time bomb facing special educational needs – podcast

    Richard Adams reports on the Send funding cliff edge affecting children and their development
  • The Bank of England

    UK ‘second most attractive country for investment’, survey finds

    The survey of chief executives, published ahead of the World Economic Forum, follows an upgraded growth forecast from the IMF

  • Hospitality firms ‘to incur £1bn costs from employer NICs on 774,000 more workers’

  • AI tool can give ministers ‘vibe check’ on whether MPs will like policies

  • Trump presidency will help to ‘occupy Brussels’, says Orbán

  • Farage claims chance he could be PM within four years is up to 25% – as it happened

  • Work on some of Boris Johnson’s ‘40 new hospitals’ will not start until 2039

  • Southport killer’s father stopped him taking taxi to ex-school before attack

  • The return of President Trump – Politics Weekly Westminster

  • Delivery apps urged to lift lid on ‘black-box algorithms’ affecting UK couriers

Opinion

  • The work and pensions secretary, Liz Kendall

    The Guardian view on incapacity benefit: the Treasury should not be calling the shots

  • Gaby Hinsliff

    The nightmare begins. But by holding its nerve, the world can weather President Trump

    Gaby Hinsliff
  • Zoe Williams

    Braverman, Truss and Fox – we have sent the worst of British public life to Trump’s inauguration

    Zoe Williams
  • Will Hayward

    Want to know the future of British politics? Look to Wales for a grim warning

    Will Hayward

  • The Guardian view on corridor care: the normalisation of crisis is shocking

  • If Rachel Reeves wants growth, improved community cohesion could be essential

    Heather Stewart

  • Cringing before the tech giants is no way to make Britain an AI superpower

    John Naughton

  • Keir Starmer will have to stick by Rachel Reeves – they’re lashed to the same mast

    Andrew Rawnsley

  • First Brexit, now Trump and Musk: ignorance is back with a vengeance

    William Keegan

  • Are you a traitor or a faithful? Just take your lead from everyone else

    Martha Gill

  • The Observer view: Rachel Reeves has an unenviable task, but she must stick to her plan for growth

  • This is my three-point plan for standing up to the far right and the billionaire bullies

    Sadiq Khan

Features & Analysis

  • A man shows the work and pensions secretary, Liz Kendall, some carpentry work as she visits a skills centre in London.

    Can Labour cut welfare spending and still be seen as a party of social justice?

  • Rob Hitchmough and his two dogs outside a cafe in Frodsham, Cheshire.

    ‘I don’t trust them’: voters wary as Reform eyes possible Runcorn byelection

  • Rachel Reeves

    Market turmoil has calmed but Rachel Reeves faces more challenges ahead

  • Chancellor Rachel Reeves visiting China earlier in January.

    Rachel Reeves will go on Davos charm offensive as plan for cuts rattles nerves at home

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.

Listen on:

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Cartoons

  • Ben Jennings on the return of Donald Trump to the White House – cartoon

    Ben Jennings on the return of Donald Trump to the White House – cartoon

  • Nicola Jennings on Donald Trump’s inauguration – cartoon

    Nicola Jennings on Donald Trump’s inauguration – cartoon

    He’ll be sworn in as US president for the second time on Monday – this time with the backing of Silicon Valley
  • Donald Trump in an apron and Maga tie, Elon Musk clutching a pitchfork and Liberty looking in horror at them from a window in the house behind them in a new version of Grant Wood's American Gothic painting

    Chris Riddell on the new American Gothic, starring Donald Trump and Elon Musk – cartoon

    What will become of liberty when these two take control of the United States of America?

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