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Toby Helm

Toby Helm is the Observer's political editor

December 2024

  • Prince Andrew meeting China’s president, Xi Jinping, in Beijing in 2018

    Advice ignored by ministers could have blocked Prince Andrew ‘spy’

    Dominic Grieve, the former attorney general, tells the Observer he advised Tories to criminalise foreign agents in 2019

November 2024

  • John Prescott in his office in 1994

    The John Prescott I knew: Blair’s ‘beautiful people’ tried to erase him – he had other plans

  • Shabana Mahmood in Downing Street

    UK justice secretary attacks assisted dying bill as ‘state death service’

  • Harriet Harman standing in gardens outside parliament

    Cancel study into the cost to NHS of assisted dying, Harman tells Streeting

  • Donald Trump

    UK must choose between EU and Trump, trade experts warn

  • As Trump pushes Ukraine to negotiate, Britain’s MPs say UK must ensure ‘just terms’

  • Labour under fire for failing to name MPs for key EU role

  • We will fight Trump’s plans to slap tariffs on the UK – Rachel Reeves

  • Budget and Badenoch: how two historic moments will redraw battle lines in British politics

  • Labour challenges Badenoch to back billions for public services and tax rises

October 2024

  • International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank Group 2024 Fall Meeting in Washington<br>Britain’s Finance Minister Rachel Reeves attends a Plenary Session during the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank Group 2024 Fall Meeting in Washington, U.S., October 25, 2024. REUTERS/Kaylee Greenlee Beal

    Reeves: ‘My budget will match greatest economic moments in Labour history’

  • Rachel Reeves walking in Westminster

    Rachel Reeves has promised not to raise taxes, so how can she fill budget coffers?

  • Rachel Reeves is the UK’s first female chancellor and hopes this week’s budget will make her mark on Labour party history.

    ‘This is personal’: Reeves reveals her motivation and relishes moment in history

  • Rachel Reeves has agonised over which course to take.

    How Labour promises have left Rachel Reeves with a giant budget headache

  • Starmer steps into cabinet row over P&O to rescue global summit in London

  • Eton among elite private schools set to cash in on windfall from new VAT rules

  • Pressure mounts on Rachel Reeves to drop ‘dangerous’ £1.3bn cut to benefits for disabled

  • Doubts grow over Labour’s VAT plan for private schools

  • Confused and conflicted: Tory party’s future hangs in the balance after divided conference

  • Faith leaders unite to reject prejudice on eve of 7 October anniversary

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