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Politics past

July 2024

  • Tony Blair hand in hand with Cherie Blair smailing and greeting people at an outdoor capaign event

    From Baldwin to Blair and more: the biggest landslides in British election history

    With Labour predicted to win by a historic margin, here are some of the most dramatic victories of previous times

June 2024

  • Ed Davey sits in chair in TV studio with BBC logo in background

    Lib Dems have regained trust of voters after coalition years, says Ed Davey

    Leader tells BBC he was ‘not proud’ of every decision he took in government from 2010 to 2015 and had made sure his party listened to voters again
  • A police officer pulls a bloodied miners by the shirt surrounded by other officers

    Strike: An Uncivil War review – brutal confrontation on the miners’ strike picket lines

    Former miners and police officers recall Orgreave, one of the nastiest events in postwar British history, in Daniel Gordon’s forthright documentary
  • Patrick Duffy seated in an armchair with a small dog sitting alongside, which looks to be a black West Highland terrier

    ‘I’m blessed. I’m still here’: ex-MP Patrick Duffy, 103, publishes memoirs

    Oldest surviving MP can clearly recall the 1926 general strike, part of his long and immensely eventful life

May 2024

  • Rishi Sunak walks up a dockyard ramp wearing a buoyancy aid.

    The Observer view on the Tories: A chance to pass judgment on 14 years of misrule

  • Big Ben and Houses of Parliament in London

    Can Labour bring Britain the major reset we need?

  • Richard Rosser was born into a family of rail enthusiasts: they chose not to own a car, preferring rail travel.

    Lord Rosser obituary

  • A woman holds a bouquet of flowers in the campaign colours as families affected by the infected blood scandal hear the findings of the six-year inquiry.

    Politicians should ‘hang heads in shame’ over UK infected blood scandal, victims say

  • Lord Stunell obituary

  • The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: The age of perpetual crisis – how the 2010s disrupted everything but resolved nothing – podcast

  • The IPP scandal
    David Blunkett’s mea culpa on indefinite sentences won’t wash

April 2024

  • Margaret Morris

    Other lives
    Margaret Morris obituary

    Other lives: Historian and socialist campaigner
  • Rishi Sunak drinking from a mug with a union flag design

    A mug’s game: the politics of Rishi Sunak’s crockery choices

    Patriotic teaware was on show from the prime minister this week – the latest round of his mug-based messaging

    • Study for portrait Winston Churchill disliked goes on show at his old home

    • Harold Wilson confessed to secret ‘love match’ while PM, former aide reveals

    • Lord Hoyle obituary

March 2024

  • Bill Cash holds up a manila folder

    Tory party to lose almost 1,000 years of Commons experience when MPs quit

  • A mural depicting phases of the New Deal in the US, by Conrad Albrizio

    Rejuvenating and protecting the arts requires creative thinking

  • Labour Party supporters celebrate their election victory on the night of 1/2 May 1997, outside the Royal Festival Hall in London

    Labour landslide will be much harder to achieve than in 1997, analysis shows

  • Camilla with a Barbie doll in her image at a reception for the Women of the World festival in London.

    Camilla lauds suffragette stones of ‘hope’ – and gets very own Barbie doll

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