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Toby Helm

Toby Helm is the Observer's political editor

September 2024

  • David Gauke

    Starmer eyes ex-Tory minister David Gauke for sentencing review role

  • A car splashes its way through a large pool of water on the road that comes up to its number plate

    Key flood defences in disrepair across England as wet autumn looms, data reveals

  • A pensioner struggles to keep warm at home.

    Charities demand to meet UK ministers as 1.6m disabled OAPs set to lose winter fuel payments

  • Kim Darroch in a media studio with New York's skyline in the background

    Trump ‘likelier winner’ unless Harris tackles two failings, says ex-ambassador

  • Tory health reforms left UK open to Covid calamity, says top doctor’s report

  • Three reports lay bare scale of NHS malaise. But will Rachel Reeves fund a transformation?

  • Winter fuel payments cut ‘one of the worst decisions I have ever seen’ says ex pensions minister

  • US ‘hero voters’ key to Harris win, say top ex-aides who plotted Labour UK victory

  • Ignore ‘vicious’ social media criticism, Blair tells Starmer

  • ‘We are in danger of being the doom and gloom government’: can Starmer’s hardline strategy actually work?

  • Rachel Reeves claimed the move was necessary to fill a £22bn black hole in the public finances.

    Rachel Reeves under renewed fire from MPs and charities over cuts to winter fuel allowance

    Chancellor maintains that overspending by previous government has left her little room for manoeuvre
  • Doctor and Nurse preparing a hospital bed on a private ward in the UK.FY0H4A Doctor and Nurse preparing a hospital bed on a private ward in the UK.

    NHS queues mean most Britons expect to pay for healthcare, says report

    Joseph Rowntree Foundation points to ‘critical shift in expectations’ and says most people now budget for many routine services
  • Andy Street West Midlands Mayor on a bus

    ‘Obsession’ with Reform UK could leave Tories out of power for 20 years, warns Andy Street

    Former West Midlands mayor on why his party was defeated, what they can do about it, and his next steps
  • Conservative Party t-shirt with the slogan 'future prime minister' on sale at the 2022 party conference

    Priti tote bags, Kemi sweatshirts and Jenrick mugs: Tory candidates to roll out the merch in bid to be new leader

  • Huge cranes load containers on to ships in Japan

    Government to seek global trade deals for UK at expense of formal EU re-entry

  • Keir Starmer will claim his government has inherited ‘not just an economic black hole but a societal black hole’.

    Keir Starmer warns of tough times ahead to fix ‘Tory ruins’

    Labour leader tells working people rot left by Conservatives is so much worse than imagined and improvement won’t happen overnight
  • Sharon Graham, general secretary of the Unite trade union, on a march with steel workers.

    Unite calls for 1% wealth tax on super-rich to fund UK public sector pay rises

    The demand from Britain’s second biggest union will test truce with Labour at next month’s TUC conference
  • Keir Starmer on stage in front of a red poster with with the words 'Change, vote Labour'

    Government plans to improve UK workers’ rights ‘lack crucial details’, says top thinktank

    A report by the Autonomy Institute says Labour proposals contain too many ambiguities and stresses that pledges must be delivered in full

July 2024

  • Rachel Reeves, in a slightly ruffle-topped shirt under a blazer, seated next to a woman and three men at a table in front of a Union Jack flag, a Welsh flag and three paintings on a wooden wall, leans forward a little, laughing

    Wealth taxes could raise £10bn to help plug Tory budget hole, say economists

  • Declared and potential Conservative leadership contenders Suella Braverman, Robert Jenrick, Priti Patel, James Cleverly, Kemi Badenoch and Tom Tugendhat.

    Patel accuses rivals of waging ‘personal vendettas’ as she launches Tory leadership bid

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