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Toby Helm

Toby Helm is the Observer's political editor

January 2025

  • People on the street halfway through the process of lowering the union jack among a row of flagpoles outside a building flying the flags of EU states

    ‘I sense Brussels is ready to be bold and ambitious’: hope mixes with anger on Brexit’s fifth anniversary

  • Rachel Reeves in a satin long-sleeved shirt and pleated skirt sits near a fireplace in her 11 Downing Street office, raising both hands as she speaks

    Reeves thinks big on planning and growth with housebuilding project

  • Keir Starmer

    ‘Move closer to Europe – not Trump’ voters tell Starmer in major UK poll

  • Chancellor Rachel Reeves visiting China earlier in January.

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

  • Rollercoaster week for the chancellor ends in relief … and a lesson learned that fortunes can change very fast

  • Reform deputy leader Richard Tice splitting time between Skegness and Dubai after partner leaves UK

  • Labour pledges to make Sunday trains as reliable as weekday services

  • Trump ‘beauty parade’ may favour populist right leaders over Starmer

  • UK government to crack down on MPs earning extra cash from media firms

  • Majority of Britons believe Musk having negative impact on UK politics

  • Reeves’ drive for growth seeks China lifeline after UK market turmoil

  • Cash incentives for GPs under Labour’s radical plan to cut NHS waiting lists

  • New year, new Keir? Labour have big plans for 2025 - including taking inspiration from Thatcher

  • Labour goes slow on rape courts pledge amid fears over shortage of lawyers

December 2024

  • Composite of the number 2025 and Nigel Farage lifting his eyebrow and shouting, David Bowie cradling an electric guitar, a Polaroid of Leigh Bowery in make-up, a character with a hat and antennae from Memoir of a Snail and Liam Gallagher singing into a microphone

    From climate denial to gothic movies to ‘treat culture’ … what to expect in 2025

  • A large group of campaigners stand holding up large banners on a London street

    Just 10 of 4,000 tainted blood victims have had compensation, campaigners say

  • The chancellor, Rachel Reeves, will he heading to China with a trade delegation at a time of global economic uncertainty as a result of Donald Trump’s threats to increase trade tariffs when he returns as US president.

    Let China build electric cars in UK, Tory ex-chancellor tells Rachel Reeves ahead of trade trip

  • Clockwise from Top Left Gisele Pelicot; ; Charli XCX; Jilly Cooper; B-Girl Raygun; Simone Biles; baby hippo Moo Deng: Nigel Farage

    From Charli to Jilly to Moo Deng the hippo: the faces we won’t forget from 2024

  • Teachers should be allowed more flexible working, Bridget Phillipson says

  • Metro mayors to control rail services under unprecedented England devolution plans

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