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  • Labour party leader Keir Starmer speaks to the media after meeting community members in south London to mark Windrush Day, 22 June 2024.

    Tory stumbles drive Labour to near-record 20-point poll lead

  • Protesters from campaign group Surfers Against Sewage

    Revealed: the ‘catastrophic scale’ of sewage spills in England and Wales

    Water companies have logged five sewage spills a day, every day, for a decade, analysis by the Observer shows
  • Michael Gove

    Betting scandal as bad for Tories as Partygate, says Michael Gove

    ‘It looks like one rule for them and one rule for us,’ the levelling up, housing and communities secretary suggests

  • Starmer’s growth plan ‘doomed’ without access to EU markets, warn economists

  • Chris Riddell on the imminent demise of the Tory party and its election betting scandal – cartoon

  • Flagship free school that cost £35m closes due to lack of pupils

  • Heat health alert for most of England as temperature set to soar

  • Reopening Brexit debate would bring ‘turmoil’, says Keir Starmer

  • Thousands march in London to urge leaders to tackle wildlife crisis

  • Carbon emissions from vans still rising as UK drivers cling to diesel

UK politics

  • Morden Wharf

    ‘Labour can’t have their cake and eat it’: housing crisis will force party into planning rows

  • Labour’s Marie Tidball spoke with Frank Huby, pictured, while canvassing in Silkstone, South Yorkshire, on Thursday.

    ‘For 14 years it’s been despicable. Enough’s enough’: in the ‘red wall’, Tory support is crumbling

    • Thousands of cleared asylum claims to be returned to Home Office after errors

    • Starmer says he is proud of Labour record on women’s rights after JK Rowling criticism

    • Farage doubles down on claim west provoked Ukraine invasion

    • ‘People need a bit of hope’: cost of living crisis challenges unionism as key election issue in Belfast East

    • Tax giveaways, rent caps and childcare: what the manifestos would mean for your finances

    • Yvette Cooper promises Labour would ‘turn the page’ on Windrush scandal

Analysis and explainers

  • Sign outside a polling station in central Westminster, London

    Election loss, rout, or wipeout? Three Tory outcomes predicted by the polls

  • Guys hospital exterior

    What does the London NHS hospitals data theft mean for patients?

  • Soaked Rishi Sunak walks into No 10 Downing Street

    Whatever the sums involved, the election betting scandal will linger in public’s minds

  • Reform UK leader Nigel Farage

    Hip-hop mimes and breast jokes win Farage a valuable gen Z following

Culture

  • HMS Victory in Portsmouth, against a slightly cloudy sky, with tourists in shorts walking towards the gangplank

    Nelson’s HMS Victory gives scientists vital DNA for battle against deathwatch beetle

  • Nish Kumar.

    Surprise election forces comedians to tear up Edinburgh festival scripts

    For this year’s fringe, performers will be rapidly updating their shows to reflect the outcome at the ballot box
  • Natasha Khan, known professionally as Bat for Lashes, demonstrates howling

    ‘I cast spells at the audience’: Bat for Lashes on howling, magic and new documentary on witch trials

    Natasha Khan joins Suranne Jones to speak out for women persecuted in the infamous trials – and channels their powers on stage

  • ‘We’re trying to change the festival world’: how south Asian music is transforming Glastonbury

  • Belfast rappers Kneecap to contest pulling of funding over political views

  • Thousands flock to Stonehenge to celebrate summer solstice

  • Paula Rego ‘masterpiece’ may set record for artist at Sotheby’s auction

Education

  • Manchester University students walk past the student union

    Next government faces hard choices on English universities, say experts

  • The King’s College London’s Maughan Library on Chancery Lane.

    UK universities valued more than institutions like parliament and BBC, finds survey

  • Manfred Goldberg sitting in a classroom wearing a virtual reality headset

    Holocaust survivors to use AI to ‘future-proof’ their stories for UK schools

  • Two teenage school girls standing in front of a large whiteboard side by side solving a mathematics equation on the board

    Paying private school fees years ahead may create VAT disputes, experts warn

Society

  • People on a street in Whalley village

    ‘At breaking point’: anger brewing in Lancashire village over booze tourism

  • A medic holds a cervical smear in liquid phase

    Women urged to accept NHS cervical screening invitations

    • Closeup of people's hands picking up slices of pizza from out of a takeaway box

      Some takeaway meals contain more calories than daily limit, UK study finds

    • Michael Lousada in blue coat with his hood up outside court

      Police consider reopening inquiry into TV sex therapist Michael Lousada

    • Nurses and medical staff in an NHS hospital ward

      UK government weighs action against Russian hackers over NHS records theft

Multimedia

  • Emma Thompson, Chris Packham and Dale Vince lead the protest.

    Restore Nature Now march in London – in pictures

  • Nigel Farage’s claim that the west provoked Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was 'completely wrong and only plays into Putin’s hands', the PM has said

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    Sunak and Starmer condemn Farage's claims the west provoked Russia's invasion of Ukraine – video

    • Taylor Swift's Shake It Off played during changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace – video

    • The Prince of Wales and his children – Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis – in shorts and beach tops holding hands and jumping in the air at the beach

      Prince William’s birthday and a sinkhole in China: photos of the day – Friday

    • People gather during sunrise at Stonehenge in Wiltshire

      Summer solstice – in pictures

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