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General election 2024

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    Conservatives
    Did that really happen? 14 years of chaotic Tory government

  • Illustration of a passport and driving licence being placed into a ballot box

    Explained
    What photo ID do I need to vote in the 2024 UK general election?

  • Keir Starmer making a speech as people in the background hold up posters reading "change"

    Explained
    Blair-style landslide or ‘supermajority’: what different results would mean for Labour

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    Boundary changes
    What constituency am I in? New boundary map

Headlines

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    Hospitals
    NHS leader calls for partnership with private sector to build new hospitals

  • Emma Raducanu wearing a purple Wimbledon towel and laughing beside a microphone stand on court

    Wimbledon
    Emma Raducanu says she did not know general election vote was on Thursday

    • Gaza live
      Israel studying new Hamas response to ceasefire proposal

    • France live
      French PM says ‘no place for violence and intimidation’ after candidate attacked putting up election posters

    • Tour de France
      Mark Cavendish powers to record-breaking 35th Tour de France stage win

    • Caribbean
      Hurricane Beryl hits Jamaica after leaving ‘Armageddon-like’ trail in Grenada

    • Business live
      UK construction activity grows despite housebuilding drop; electric car sales rise to make up fifth of new car market

    • Japan
      Country introduces enormous humanoid robot to maintain train lines

General election 2024

Polls are open until 10pm to vote in the UK general election

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News in focus

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    Can the climate survive the insatiable energy demands of the AI arms race?

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    France
    French voters face choice of least worst option in high-stakes election

    Scramble to build ‘republican front’ against first-placed far right leaves many weighing difficult decisions
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    The alternatives
    ‘It needs to stay in the loop’: German reuse schemes turn shopping upside down

    After success of bottle deposit schemes, some retailers are trying to widen culture of reuse – and start tackling Europe’s waste problem

Spotlight

  • From left: Kiran Shah with Elijah Wood on the set of The Fellowship of the Ring, in costume as Superman and dressed as an Ewok.

    Film
    Superman, Frodo and Star Wars: the stunning life of Kiran Shah – the world’s smallest stuntman

    Shah has a strong claim to have appeared in more blockbuster movies than anyone else on Earth
  • Eleanor Rathbone, the independent candidate for East Toxteth, Liverpool.

    Women
    ‘100% feminist’: how Eleanor Rathbone invented child benefit – and changed women’s lives for ever

  • Mark Cavendish sprints towards the finish line to win a record 35th Tour de France stage

    Tour de France
    Stubborn, brave, brilliant: Cavendish defies age again to rewrite history

    To win a Tour stage at 39 is a stunning feat of endurance in a sport where many careers last less than two years
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    Money
    ‘They have you over a barrel’: how scammers, touts and bots took over driving tests

    It can take you six months to get a driving test in England – unless you’re willing to pay a middleman up to £350. What’s behind this black market? And is there any way to avoid it?
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      Nitrous oxide
      Revolution in the air: how laughing gas changed the world

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      Dugongs
      ‘We rarely see them now’: just how vulnerable are Vanuatu’s dugongs?

    • This image released by Amazon shows Emma Roberts, left, and Poppy Liu in a scene from "Space Cadet." (Prime Video via AP)

      Film
      Space Cadet review – Emma Roberts joins Nasa in lazy streaming slop

    • A screengrab from the Gatwick airport website valet parking video.

      Consumer champions
      Our car was no longer driveable after valet parking at Gatwick

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Opinion

  • Rishi Sunak and Boris Johnson visiting a brewery in 2021.

    Starmer wants us to believe we can trust politicians again. That’s huge – but he has to mean it

    Martin Kettle
    The Tories are in denial about the crisis in politics. Labour seems to get it, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle
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    I never thought I’d argue for rearmament. But a looming Trump presidency changes everything

    George Monbiot
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    Who can we blame for Joe Biden’s gamble? Angry Democrats are starting to point the finger

    Emma Brockes
    The president’s hubris in thinking he was capable of a second term could be catastrophic
  • Dogs are seen near the border wall, on the border between Mexico and US, during a winter storm, in Ciudad Juarez

    Far right using climate crisis as bogeyman to frighten voters and build higher walls

    Jonathan Watts
    It is no coincidence that ever more extreme politics has come at a time of ever more extreme weather
    • Mushrooms on sale at La Boqueria in Barcelona.

      Spain’s traditional food markets are fading away – and with them, a whole way of life

      Stephen Burgen
    • a commuter passes an advertisement for Shein on London Underground.

      Is Shein really worth £50bn? Reasons to be sceptical are piling up

      Nils Pratley
    • Ben Jennings on the end of 14 years of dysfunctional Tory rule – cartoon

      Cartoon
      Ben Jennings on the end of 14 years of dysfunctional Tory rule – cartoon

    • Rishi Sunak

      Rishi sinks into TV sofa as Boris gloats and Mel goes rogue

      John Crace

Editorials & Letters

  • People arrive to cast their votes at a polling station in Tower Hamlets, East London in 2010

    Editorial
    The Guardian view on polling day: a moment to cherish and nurture democracy

  • Former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign event on 15 June 2024 in Detroit.

    Editorial
    The Guardian view on Trump and presidential immunity: the return of the king

  • Keir Starmer smiles with Martha O'Neil, Labour’s Carmarthenshire candidate, and Vaughan Gething, the first minister of Wales, in Whitland, Wales, on 3 July.

    Letters
    Hope for an end to Tory rule has the smiles returning to our faces

  • Keir Starmer addresses a Labour campaign event in London on Saturday.

    Letters
    Keir Starmer gives us hope for the future, but Labour must be more radical in office

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Climate crisis

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    UK
    Climate activists on trial for blocking of M25 defy court to address jurors

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    California
    Nearly 30,000 people in northern California evacuated as raging wildfire spreads

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    Donald Trump
    ‘It’s nonsensical’: how Trump is making climate the latest culture war

  • yellow, green, red and blue tubes on ceiling connecting to floor in a grey room

    Technology
    Google’s emissions climb nearly 50% in five years due to AI energy demand

From the UK

  • Junior doctors hold orange and white placards reading 'pay restoration for doctors'

    Unions
    Labour must take immediate action to deliver on workers’ rights, says union chief

    Post-election honeymoon will be brief unless Keir Starmer holds summit with unions within days, says TUC president
  • Woman pouring a box of ballot papers onto a table that various counters are sat at.

    Voting
    Rapid results: UK ballot counters braced for race to declare first winner

  • Aerial view of about seven cars on a forecourt, including one red and one yellow

    Business
    First-half sales of new cars in UK pass 1m for first time since before Covid

  • Hannah Ingram-Moore with Captain Tom Moore in April 2020.

    Captain Tom Moore
    Captain Tom’s daughter and her husband banned from being charity trustees

    • Embryos
      Work on synthetic human embryos to get code of practice in UK

    • Archaeology
      Survey detects Roman villas and iron age farmsteads in Shropshire

    • London
      Two charged with 2018 murder of 17-year-old girl in north London

    • Post Office Horizon scandal
      Ex-Post Office chair expresses ‘sincere regret’ over Horizon scandal

    • Military
      ‘Significant failing’ in care of Royal Marines recruit who took his own life

    • UK news
      Man jailed for carrying replica sword from Legend of Zelda video game in public

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Around the world

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    Israel-Gaza war
    About 90% of people in Gaza displaced since war began, says UN agency

    Many have moved more than once, with estimated 1.9m Palestinians relocating since Israel’s invasion, says OCHA
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    Iran
    The Afghan women rebuilding shattered dreams in Iran

  • Karamba Diaby at podium saying Deutscher Bundestag

    Germany
    Germany’s first African-born MP to stand down after racist abuse

  • A faded cave painting with a large pig visible in the middle.

    Archaeology
    Oldest known picture story is a 51,000-year-old Indonesian cave painting

    • France
      Far-right win in French election could deal blow to climate policy, say experts

    • Australia
      Pro-Palestine protesters scale roof of Parliament House to unfurl banners criticising war in Gaza

    • Ukraine war briefing
      Day of mourning in Dnipro after Russian attack on schools and hospitals

    • Refugees
      Banksy-funded migrant rescue boat detained in Italy after saving 37 people

    • US
      Michigan governer wants to meet far-right plotters who tried to kill her, book reveals

    • California
      Neo-Nazi found guilty of murder of former classmate

Culture

  • Chelsea fans at the Women’s FA Cup final 2023.

    Books
    Inheritance by Harvey Whitehouse review – the power of unity

    A thought provoking look at social forces, and the ways ordinary people can change the world
  • Lakshya in Kill.

    Film
    Kill review – ultraviolent Indian train thriller is finger-cracking good

  • Dominique White photographed in front of Deadweight in production, 2024.

    Art
    ‘I always want to grapple with an unruly beast’: the ghostly works of Dominique White

  • Sketches of Mexico, in Rosarita

    Book of the day
    Rosarita by Anita Desai review – a transcendent late gift

  • Two children in rehearsal hold up signs with the word 'all rise'

    Stage
    ‘A lot of stereotypes to break’: Children’s Inquiry musical explores life in care in Britain

  • Underwhelming … John Travolta in Cash Out.

    Film
    Cash Out review – John Travolta invests in Fast and Furious style failed-heist caper

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Lifestyle

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    Food
    Riaz Phillips’ Caribbean fish, mango and okra curry – recipe

    Packed with alluring spices and creamy coconut milk, this truly unique dish is full of Caribbean character
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    Travel
    ‘We constantly think about food’: a chef’s tour of Tunis

  • Yotam Ottolenghi's chakalaka.

    Food
    Chakalaka and grilled chicken: Yotam Ottolenghi’s recipes for a braai

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    This is how we do it in Chile
    We’ve been together 33 years. I want sex once a week. He wishes it was three times a day

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    Quiz
    Supermajorities and sour milk – take our UK general election quiz

  • A white woman with long brown hair and a button-up blue shirt with no pants sits on the edge of a bed, while a white man wearing jeans with no shirt lies with his back to her.

    Well actually
    Feel sad, anxious or ‘homesick’ after sex? You might have post-coital dysphoria

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    UK voters
    What’s happening where you are on polling day?

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    Rishi Sunak
    South Asians in the UK: share your thoughts on Rishi Sunak’s time as Prime Minister

  • Anyone who started university between 2012 and 2022 is now paying 7.6% interest on what they borrowed, meaning that almost all will see their loans go up by more than they repay this year.

    Student finance
    Are you struggling to pay off an outstanding UK university student loan?

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From our global editions

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    Ten years after a celebrity summit promised to end rape as a weapon of war, is there any change for the women of South Sudan?

    Guardian investigation reveals conflict-riven country received little funding or support and that high-profile perpetrators remain in public office
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    Analysis
    White House efforts to shield Biden’s missteps are unraveling

  • George Cottrell, wearing sunglasses, joins Nigel Farage on a Leave Means Leave march in London in 2019.

    Reform UK
    ‘Like a son to me’: George Cottrell, the high-rolling convicted fraudster at Nigel Farage’s side

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    US election
    The week that changed the US election: Trump’s immunity as Biden falls flat on his face

  • Calais, France.

    Politics
    A tale of two elections: how angry voters in France and UK turned on their leaders

  • Tracy Clark and Connor MacKenzie Clark.

    Military
    ‘They let us down’: mother of Royal Marines cadet who killed himself fights for change

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    Photography
    ‘We all need a place to hide’: NHS workers take a breather

    From wildflower retreats and Novid rooms to locking yourself in a disabled toilet, hospital staff reveal where they go when they need a moment’s peace
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    Readers' best photographs
    A busy bee and stormy sea – readers’ best photos

  • Jordan, Shuayb, Sadiq and Idris at the Other Stage

    Glastonbury 2024
    ‘Like an island separate from England’: Black joy at Glastonbury – photo essay

  • Law enforcement members watch a red sky filled with embers as the Thompson fire burns

    Photos of the day
    Sunflowers and heatwaves: photos of the day – Wednesday

  • ‘Don’t be afraid to shine’ … Nikita Gold

    Culture
    ‘Our message? Be fabulous!’: Drag artists with Down’s syndrome

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