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  • A red kettle sits beside a digital smart meter display showing energy usage on a kitchen counter

    Labour could oversee worst parliament on record for living standards, study warns

    Energy and housing costs threaten biggest decline in modern times unless bold action taken, says thinktank
  • George Galloway wears a wide-brimmed black felt hat and black-rimmed glasses, a pale blue open-necked shirt and a heavy black overcoat with wide lapels and a red buttonhole detail. He is stocky with a trimmed grey beard.

    George Galloway contests London byelection without setting foot in UK

  • Kemi Badenoch delivers her speech on the final day of the Conservative Party conference on Wednesday

    Couples would be able to leave £1m and family home exempt from inheritance tax under Tories, says Badenoch – as it happened

  • Kemi Badenoch speaks animatedly at a podium that says 'stronger country' during her speech at Conservative party conference

    Tories accused of prioritising rich voters as Badenoch lays out inheritance tax cut plan

  • Nigel Farage, in a blue suit with a headset microphone, points while speaking at a Reform UK podium on stage at the party's conference

    Reform clears its own officials of breaking party funding laws despite police investigation

  • IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva raises both hands while speaking on stage before a blue screen

    IMF chief urges governments to tighten belts as global debt levels soar

  • BIRMINGHAM, 04 October 2026 - Tory take on the Bayeux tapestry with a detail showing Kemi Badenoch pointing as a tiny Robert Jenrick walks away

    Tories delight as satirical tapestry pokes fun at ‘turncoat’ Robert Jenrick

Opinion

  • John Crace

    double quotation markAll hail the death Kult of Kemi – captain, coach and owner of the Conservatives

    John Crace
    The Tory leader is now too big for the party to allow her to fail, so everything she does is acclaimed a work of genius
  • Henry Hill

    double quotation markBadenoch made the best of it – but the Tories still have a mountain to climb before any hope of No 10

    Henry Hill
  • Andy Beckett

    double quotation markThe Greens may yet win in Holborn and St Pancras – but what happened to the party set to ‘replace’ Labour?

    Andy Beckett
  • Rafael Behr

    double quotation markZack Polanski had the chance to show real leadership. He blew it

    Rafael Behr
  • Green Party leader Zack Polanski delivers keynote speech at Green Party Conferenceepa13277326 Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales, Zack Polanski, delivers his keynote speech at the Green Party annual conference in Brighton, Britain, 02 October 2026. EPA/ANDY RAIN

    The Guardian view on the Green party and Palestine: rejecting two states is no shortcut to peace

  • Owen Jones

    double quotation markKemi Badenoch is the most rightwing leader in Tory history. Isn’t it time she got some actual scrutiny?

    Owen Jones
  • John Crace

    double quotation markDon’t mention the Iron Dome: comedy genius Kemi on warpath at Tory conference

    John Crace

Features & analysis

  • Two women walk past the British Consulate building in East Jerusalem, lined with cypress trees

    ‘Palestinians will bear the cost’: UK consulate in East Jerusalem prepares to shut its doors

  • Kemi Badenoch speaks near a microphone during her conference keynote speech

    ‘All me’: Tory party riding high on Kemi Badenoch’s wave of popularity

  • A poster from the Everyone Hates Elon campaign on a billboard above a takeaway curry shop in Manchester, with a photo of Sir Jim Ratcliffe, surrounded by fluttering bank notes, alongside the words 'If you can afford Manchester United you can pay more tax'

    Apparent exodus of super-rich suggests UK is no longer billionaires’ playground

  • A tree in a small area of green space near Euston station beside a road

    Loss of green space could be issue that decides Holborn and St Pancras byelection

  • Ella Baron on Kemi Badenoch and Britain’s Neets – cartoon

    Ella Baron on Kemi Badenoch and Britain’s Neets – cartoon

    The Conservative leader has said the party will introduce stringent new rules for under-25s claiming benefits
  • Ella Baron on Andy Burnham reversing 40 years of neoliberalism – cartoon

    Ella Baron on Andy Burnham reversing 40 years of neoliberalism – cartoon

  • Ben Jennings on Andy Burnham’s suggestion that the Brexit question could be revisited – cartoon

    Ben Jennings on Andy Burnham’s suggestion that the Brexit question could be revisited – cartoon

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