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The king’s speech has been delivered, marking the state opening of parliament (technically, this was the first king’s speech with a Labour government in 74 years). The speech was written by Keir Starmer’s government, not the king, and lays out the government’s agenda for the coming year. The Conversation’s academic…

LABOUR have set out their political agenda for the coming months and it is a weighty beast.

Who, apart from the very wealthy, could bring themselves to go to university these days? Three years of mostly less-than adequate teaching, a lot of it on Zoom, an uncertain at best transition into the workplace and a whacking great loan that you’ll spend the next 40 years repaying isn’t…

Labour’s landslide victory gave hope to progressives worldwide but may be as much practical as ideological

Labour’s new brood includes an economist whose family fled from Liberia, Westminster insiders and a former soldier

ON a cloudy day in June on the outskirts of Edinburgh, close to the airport, the SNP launched its election manifesto.

KEIR Starmer will chair the first meeting of his new Cabinet and face questions from the media after promising to start work “immediately” on…

These are the newly minted political podcasts and presenters in the U.K.

Labour will rue the seats lost to independents and Greens, and the failure to respond to anger over its stance on Gaza, writes Guardian columnist Owen Jones