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  • HMS Vigilant, which carries the Trident nuclear weapons, at HM Naval Base Clyde, Faslane, April 2019: this is a large, dark grey submarine, seen moored in the lake against a blue sky with small white clouds.

    Rayner hasn’t ‘changed mind’ on nuclear weapons but backs Labour policy

  • Vanguard-class submarine HMS Vigilant at port

    Reality check: is Keir Starmer’s triple lock on nuclear weapons anything new?

    We look at the facts and figures behind Labour’s promise and its affordability
  • A pembrolizumab monoclonal antibody drug protein

    Drug that ‘melts away’ tumours hailed as ‘gamechanger’ for some bowel cancer patients

    Pembrolizumab triples chance of survival for the 10-15% of patients with the right genetic makeup, study finds

  • May and spring were warmest on record in UK, Met Office says

  • HMRC apologises for delayed payment of child benefit to about 500,000 people

  • Nigel Farage to stand in Clacton at general election after taking over as leader of Reform party – as it happened

  • UK ‘robber baron’ company Melrose gives bosses £176m handout

  • Nigel Farage to stand for Reform UK in general election U-turn

  • Labour NEC to confirm Diane Abbott reselection despite ‘lies’ tweet

  • Asian hornets overwintered in UK for first time, DNA testing shows

UK politics

  • Nigel Farage, in a blue suit, left arm aloft before the union Jack, announcing he will stand as Reform UK candidate in Clacton, Essex, in the upcoming election

    Nigel Farage: A potted history of his political career on the road to Reform

  • Close-up head and shoulders portrait of Calvin Bailey, who is wearing green military overalls and standing in front of a RAF plane with its propellors seen to one side of his head.

    ‘I’m compelled by service’: ex-military Labour candidate Calvin Bailey

    • ‘He’s lost our vote’: Vaughan Gething scandals cut through before confidence test

    • What constituency am I in?: new boundary map for UK general election – and how changes may affect you

    • UK general election opinion polls tracker: Labour significantly ahead of Tories as campaign continues

    • ‘Is it fair? No. Is it morally right? Yes.’: parents on private school fee VAT plans

    • Asylum seekers report widespread abuse in Home Office accommodation

    • UK election debates must make climate crisis a key issue, say green groups

Analysis and explainers

  • Nigel Farage

    Reality check: how do Farage’s claims on immigration, economy and crime hold up?

  • Side by side headshots of Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer

    With policy battle lines set, Sunak and Starmer prepare for TV combat

  • Home Office UK Visas & Immigration sign

    What are the problems with the UK visa system for care work?

  • Keir Starmer walks with shadow foreign secretary David Lammy along a gravel path with a large building in the background

    For Labour, the Gaza crisis is a foreign policy tightrope in waiting

Culture

  • Colin Gibb (left) and Alan Barton of Black Lace.

    Colin Gibb, singer with Black Lace, dies aged 70

  • ‘Beyond delighted’ … Jodie Whittaker appears in The Duchess from October at the Trafalgar theatre.

    Jodie Whittaker returns to London stage to play The Duchess

    The Doctor Who star’s performance coincides with David Tennant’s Macbeth and Ncuti Gatwa appearing in The Importance of Being Earnest
  • An urban square in front of a grey stone Victorian institutional building, given extra colour by a mix of leafy trees and mural art on different walls and buildings

    Summerhall’s sale could devastate Edinburgh’s arts scene, say creative leaders

    Arts hub described as heart of city’s fringe advertised for redevelopment after benefactor outvoted on family trust

  • UK within British empire is like last person left at a party, says David Olusoga

  • This direction: Cheshire village launches Harry Styles tour for pop star’s fans

  • Toby Jones praises ‘extraordinary dignity’ of Post Office accused

  • Julia Gillard says progress on gender equality is ‘really glacial’

Education

  • A pupil tucks in at The Priory primary school in Wednesbury, West Midlands.

    ‘A full tummy means pupils can concentrate.’ But is Labour’s school breakfast plan bold enough?

  • The three politicians smiling in front of a crowd of people holding Lib Dem posters

    Lib Dems would extend free school meals to all primary schoolchildren, says Ed Davey

  • The Curve teaching site at Teeside University

    Nigeria takes up case of its Teesside University students ordered out of UK

  • Teenagers in school uniforms in a drama class

    Fewer pupils in England studying drama and media at GCSE and A-level

Society

  • Medical staff push a patient on a hospital bed along a corridor

    Rise in hospital ‘corridor care’ is national emergency, union warns

  • Kemi Badenoch comments<br>EMBARGOED TO 0001 SUNDAY MAY 19 File photo dated Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch who has told firms to focus on delivering for customers rather than "activism or political causes". She said there was a "creeping - and counter-productive - politicisation" of business. The Business Secretary was speaking in support of a research programme by the Policy Exchange think tank on the issue. Issue date: Sunday May 19, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story POLITICS Badenoch. Photo credit should read: Peter Nicholls/PA Wire

    Tories will allow bars on trans women, says Kemi Badenoch

    • Patient laying on a CT scan platform

      Cancer rates among under-50s in UK have risen 24% since 1995, figures show

    • Akhil Jenny (left) and Geo Ambooken (right): composite graphic image incorporating images of the two men alongside images of work permits and of a care worker at work.

      ‘He didn’t have a contract for me’: the Indian careworkers who paid agents to work in Britain

    • Clockwise; a plane lands at Heathrow, anonymous careworker helps a resident, anonymous careworker pushes a wheelchair, Home Office sign

      UK care agencies accused of exploiting foreign workers caught in debt traps

Multimedia

  • Composite of Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer headshots

    Politics Weekly Westminster: Ahead of the TV debates – podcast

  • The banner hanging from Westminster Bridge with the Palace of Westminster behind

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    Banner urging Labour to end arms sales to Israel unfurled near Westminster – video

    • A bald man in his sixties (Phil Daoust), wearing a T-shirt, shorts and trainers, sitting on the floor pulling on resistance bands around his feet

      How to live to 100

    • David Beckham hugs his daughter Harper during the Major League Soccer (MLS) regular season football match between Inter Miami CF and St. Louis CITY SC in Florida

      D-day landings and David and Harper Beckham: photos of the weekend

    • 'Why do you hate young people?': Rishi Sunak confronted over national service plan – video

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