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The shabby state of British democracy was made plain by a king’s speech tailored not for the country’s needs, but the Tories’ own grubby ends, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

The Labour leader also took aim at Home Secretary Suella Braverman, with some MPs shouting ‘sack her’.

HUNDREDS of school students boycotted an assembly with a senior shadow cabinet member over Labour’s position on Israel-Palestine.

The British Labour Party leader, Keir Starmer, has come under fire from members of his own party for refusing to call for a ceasefire in the Hamas-Israel war, instead pushing for a humanitarian pause in the conflict. As a result, 50 Labour councillors have quit the party. The controversy raises…

The lack of new ideas on key issues – the NHS, environment, education and cost of living – could become Sunak’s biggest weakness at the polls

A political hot potato singes progressives across the continent.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has put a series of criminal justice laws at the heart of the King’s Speech, in a bid to draw dividing lines with Labour.

David Lammy condemns ‘extremist rhetoric’ and ‘displacement of Palestinians in West Bank’

Prime minister to focus on string of criminal justice measures at the annual state opening of parliament

The first King’s Speech for more than 70 years will be used by the Prime Minister to set out a string of criminal justice measures.

PM to announce tougher sentences for rapists and killers with general election looming