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Voters want progress, but there must also be accountability. When you pick up a ballot paper, remember all the waste and incompetence, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

Money operates as a medium of exchange by negating the need for a double coincidence of wants. In a barter economy, if I have chickens and want to purchase a 30-goal-a-season striker, I am reliant on at least one football club being in need of (let's face it, several billion)…

UK Labour leader Keir Starmer visited Scotland on the second day of general election campaigning on Friday, targeting a key battleground as his party bids to reclaim power for the first time in 14 years.

Editorial: Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak have all provided object lessons in how not to govern wisely or well

Not content with treating workers at a distribution centre as if they were half-wits, the PM relied on Tory plants to lob easy questions as if no one would notice

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is taking the biggest gamble of his political life by calling a general election for July 4

Critics say British Labour Party leader Keir Starmer is dutiful, managerial and a bit dull

Voters to choose new prime minister and MPs, with a host of top Conservatives at risk of being ejected from Commons

Sunak announced general election which could signal an end to his Conservative Party’s 14 years of power in the UK.

Have your say: With Labour leading in the polls, the big question is whether Rishi Sunak can turn the tide for the Conservatives

Britain’s political party leaders are crisscrossing the country on the first day of a six-week election campaign