Shocking crimes, royal illness and Labour’s landslide: The eight big moments that defined 2024 for Britain
Winds of change howled across Britain in a year when a Labour election victory ended 14 years of Tory rule
Conservative and Unionist Party
Trumpian vibe as Kemi Badenoch faces Keir Starmer in House of Commons
New Tory leader Kemi Badenoch faces Labour prime minister Keir Starmer in the Commons for the first time
Kemi Badenoch brings sass and confidence as leader of Conservative Party
London-born, Nigeria-raised daughter of middle-class immigrant parents is first black woman to lead major political party in Britain
Kemi Badenoch elected new leader of UK Tories
Badenoch, now the first black leader of a major UK party, defeated Robert Jenrick
Can the hard man of Brexit fix corporate groupthink?
Former Tory MP Steve Baker believes he and LSE professor Paul Dolan have the answer to a persistent business problem
Keir Starmer may be the real winner as James Cleverly is eliminated from Tory leadership race
James Cleverly's sensational exit sees Conservatives move further to the right with either Kemi Badenoch or Robert Jenrick
James Cleverly seizes lead in race to be next Tory leader
Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick now appear to be in a straight fight to make the final vote of members, after Tom Tugendhat was eliminated in poll of Tory MPs
Robert Jenrick corners favouritism for Tory party leadership
James Cleverly delivers considered, but occasionally funny speech in which party faithful are urged to be more ‘optimistic’
‘Dream on, James’: Tory leadership battle gets all bubbly
Conservative Party conference attendees shrugged off a few sore heads on Monday morning to debate their future
Conservative conference’s leadership beauty parade kicks off with row over maternity pay
Down in numbers and out of government, Tories gather in Birmingham to lick their wounds after election drubbing
Tory leadership hopefuls to showcase credentials at party conference beauty parade
Kemi Badenoch would be favourite in a vote of party members, but only if MPs decide to put her in the final pairing
Schisms and sleaze plague Keir Starmer’s first Labour conference, risking long-term damage
Party’s first event after 14 years in opposition was meant to be a celebration of election victory but risks being overshadowed
The Irish Times view on the UK riots: a fracture in the social fabric
Anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim sentiment is driven by extremist networks but also by an increasingly xenophobic political discourse
An Irishman in London celebrates the UK becoming a ‘nation once again’
Living in the UK almost 40 years, Peter Benson is thrilled about Labour’s election victory. ‘We have grown-ups in 10 Downing Street now,’ he writes
Tory leadership candidates risk ‘yellow card’ if they brief against rivals
Chair of backbench group of Conservative MPs says candidates could receive formal warning to head off mudslinging
New Conservative leader in UK to be announced on November 2nd
Former prime minister Rishi Sunak will remain as party leader while contest to find his successor takes place
Ireland has an almost embarrassing abundance of revenue compared with the UK’s budgetary problems
The problems of Ireland are ones the new UK Labour administration would love: too much money, large tax surpluses and politicians choosing where to spend
Popular Conservatives clan meets in Westminster amid agreement Tories are neither ‘popular nor conservative’
While the right-wing Tory factions meet to plan a ‘rebuild’, election winners gathered in parliament to be sworn in
Labour faces decisions that will alienate some in Britain who voted for it
Keir Starmer is an antidote to the privileged Tories he has displaced but he will need to be ruthlessness and willing to upend policy
New UK PM Keir Starmer invites Simon Harris to Downing Street after Tory election collapse
Hilary Benn named NI Secretary; Rishi Sunak says ‘sorry’ as he steps down as Conservative leader; Ian Paisley jnr loses seat
Conservatives lost UK’s landslide election just as much as Labour won it
Keir Starmer’s party turned the election map red - but secured fewer votes than in 2017 when led by Jeremy Corbyn
Labour eyes control of Scotland’s parliament after routing SNP in election
Scottish Labour under Anas Sarwar has completed a Lazarus-like recovery
Keir Starmer enters Downing Street as UK prime minister after historic victory
New leader names Rachel Reeves as Britain’s first female chancellor of the exchequer
Conservative problems long pre-dated Sunak’s leadership
Tories now face fundamental questions about future direction of the party
UK election: The high-profile casualties from Rees-Mogg to Truss
House of Commons leader Penny Mordaunt among the well-known MPs rejected by the electorate
Tory tears: ‘The disappointment will come in about two years when the next lot crash everything’
Tory election workers strike a defiant note despite crushing electoral defeat
Keir Starmer set to be British prime minister amid landslide victory for Labour in UK election
Labour set to secure 410 seats, with Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives on 131
UK general election: Polls open with Labour on course for historic victory
UK election: Tory prime minister Rishi Sunak says he will take responsibility for the result, which could cost half his cabinet their seats in parliament
Unionism has welcomed Labour’s apparently inevitable win, but nationalists are already milking it
The next UK government’s spending policy could lead to a boon for Stormont parties thanks to the oddities of devolutionary accounting
Tories warn of Labour landslide in final day of UK election campaigning
Comments by ally of Rishi Sunak come as Sun newspaper tells readers to back Keir Starmer on Thursday
UK election: everything you need to know, from how it works to seats to watch
UK general election: Westminster will seat 650 MPs by first-past-the-post, with the first counts expected hours after polls close
UK election: Starmer will try to set up ‘permanent Labour government’ if he wins, says home secretary
Labour leader says he is ‘not taking any lectures’ from James Cleverly about elections and accuses Tories of inflicting 14 years of chaos on the country
Farage claims ‘bad apples are gone’ from Reform UK amid ongoing racism row
‘Have we had a few bad apples? We have, although to my knowledge nobody involved in an organised betting ring is standing for us, which is something’
UK election debate: Sunak goes for it in final joust with Starmer but his true target probably wasn’t in the room
Tory PM took aim at his likely successor in Downing Street but may really have been trying to throttle the flow of votes from his party to Farage’s Reform UK
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