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House of Commons

July 2024

  • Lindsay Hoyle re-elected as house speaker as the Commons met for the first time since last week's general election

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    MPs re-elect Lindsay Hoyle as Commons speaker – video

  • BRITAIN-POLITICS-PARLIAMENT<br>A handout photograph released by the UK Parliament shows Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer addressing MPs as they meet for the first time since Britain's general election at the House of Commons in London on July 9, 2024. Britain's new lawmakers excitedly squeezed into parliament with Labour sitting on the government's side of the chamber for the first time in 14 years following last week's landslide election win. (Photo by Handout / UK PARLIAMENT / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT " AFP PHOTO / UK PARLIAMENT " - NO USE FOR ENTERTAINMENT, SATIRICAL, MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - EDITORS NOTE THE IMAGE MAY HAVE BEEN DIGITALLY ALTERED AT SOURCE TO OBSCURE VISIBLE DOCUMENTS (Photo by HANDOUT/UK PARLIAMENT/AFP via Getty Images)

    The Guardian view on Labour’s revolution: legitimising its power requires rebuilding trust

  • Keir Starmer

    Starmer praises Abbott and hails diverse Commons in first speech to parliament as PM – as it happened

  • A postal worker on a delivery round in Summerseat, Greater Manchester

    Brief letters
    Up with the lark, but not by choice

  • Keir Starmer hails diverse Commons in first speech to parliament as PM – video

  • Nigel Farage claims in first Commons speech that John Bercow tried to 'overturn' Brexit – video

  • Record 335 new MPs to be inducted into House of Commons this week

  • Positivity and pride in Britain’s new political era

  • Where will they all sit? Commons welcomes 334 rookie MPs in most diverse parliament

  • UK general election results in full: Labour wins in landslide

  • Brief letters
    Sketchy reporting of House of Commons debates

  • Labour to win, Tories to lose: but why can’t Britain have radical MPs free to speak their minds?

    Simon Jenkins

June 2024

  • Andrew Rawnsley

    Sir Keir Starmer’s pledge to clean up politics will come back to mock him if he doesn’t deliver

    Andrew Rawnsley
    The Labour leader must act quickly to establish a zero-tolerance approach to rule-breaking in the new parliament
  • Rory Stewart

    Rory Stewart is right about Britain’s broken politics

    Letters: In response to the ex-Tory MP’s article, John Robinson hopes future Labour ministers have time to do their jobs properly and Peter J Atkins points out the darker side of Stewart’s beloved Cumbrian dry-stone walls. Plus letters by Ian Smith and Diana Morgan
  • Participants in the BBC election debate, left to right: Nigel Farage, Reform; Rhun ap Iorwerth, Plaid Cymru; Daisy Cooper, Liberal Democrats; Stephen Flynn, SNP; Carla Denyer, Green party; Angela Rayner, Labour; Penny Mordaunt, Conservatives.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    BBC election debate: Penny Mordaunt says Sunak’s D-day snub was ‘very wrong’ in seven-party clash – as it happened

    Mordaunt, for the Tories, faced Labour’s Angela Rayner, Reform’s Nigel Farage and candidates from Lib Dems, SNP, Greens and Plaid Cymru

24 May 2024

  • Rishi Sunak visiting Belfast

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Sunak’s election tour branded shambolic after Titanic Quarter visit inspires sinking ship comparison – as it happened

    Incident in Belfast follows gaffe in Welsh brewery and campaign launch where Labour anthem was played
  • Martin Rowson on the great pre-election ‘wash-up’ – cartoon

    Guardian Opinion cartoon
    Martin Rowson on the great pre-election ‘wash-up’ – cartoon

    The prorogation of parliament yesterday for the campaign period has meant abandoning key pieces of government legislation
  • Westminster official in role of parliament's Black Rod

    Tory MPs mull over their fate after Rishi Sunak’s election call

    Gloom, resignation, but also a show of fighting spirit as PM’s troops weigh up the odds on re-election

23 May 2024

  • Penny Mordaunt, leader of the Commons

    Lost laws: which legislation will slip through the net before the UK election?

  • Rishi Sunak outside No 10

    The Guardian view on the end of a parliament: five years in which Britain’s leaders showed they were not up to the job

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