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As a childhood reader of spy novels, I acquired high expectations of the secret world. British spies would be flamboyant and exceptional Bond-types. But looking around the post-university scene, I realise that all the people I knew who became spies are dull. There was the humdrum civil service fast streamer…

Ed couldn’t recall his first letter from Alan Bates but couldn’t explain why he replied telling Bates to stop bothering him

With England through to the Euro 2024 final, plenty are wondering if the nation will get an extra bank holiday to celebrate

MPs re-elected the speaker and Rishi Sunak addresses the Commons for the first time as leader of the opposition as parliament returns

The Lib Dems gained 61 new seats in a record-breaking general election for the party

Polluted chalk streams in England’s South Downs infuriated voters in Chichester, a seat that had been Conservative for a century

Exclusive: party to use biggest-ever cohort of MPs to get ‘essential decisions’ made on issue that ‘cut-through’

Lib Dem strategy was vindicated, Greens and Reform had their best night, while Labour’s victory had its flaws

The Oxfordshire town – the former seat of Michael Heseltine and Boris Johnson – has been a Tory seat from 1906 until now