General Election 2024

Hundreds of thousands of British overseas voters did not vote in the election despite being newly eligible - why?

Despite having had three female prime ministers previously, social class is still an issue for women in politics

After the election, Britain now has a parliament that better resembles the electorate

A Commons elected by supplementary vote and a Lords by PR would help restore trust

The Liberal Democrats’ 72-seat success is not just the product of cheesy stunts and a brilliant tactical voting operation – Ed Davey’s own story helped too

The Tory-supporting papers' reaction to the party's crushing defeat shows they have learned absolutely nothing

The new PM is not a showman or a kamikaze gambler, just straight down the line, with his own individual style of operation

To the ordinary Italian, the UK election result went by practically unnoticed

Conveniently, the Georgian press saw no reason to focus on the change of government in Britain

For once, Dutch politics is more interesting and offers a greater spectacle than Britain’s

Truss, turnout and Labour’s landslide were my hits - but Corbyn’s win was a huge shock

The party is now the minnow of British politics

Starmer now has a fight on his hands to keep down a new crop of extreme right and left wing MPs

A raft of big-name Brexiteers lost their seats as Labour won a landslide victory

It’s a crushing landslide – but the Tories will have enough MPs to form a functioning opposition

Fourteen years of Conservative disasters come to an end as Keir Starmer prepares to enter No.10

This has been a campaign devoid of excitement and imagination - in the national papers as well as from our politicians

Labour went into a general election confident of a convincing victory for a programme of change - but factors that may sound familiar intervened

What time is the exit poll? When will the key seats declare? How long will you have to stay up to see Sunak concede?

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The paper hates Keir Starmer, but couldn’t bear not to back a winner

Meanwhile, in Newark, Robert Jenrick appears to fancy himself as future Tory leader

There is a huge gulf between the shadow cabinet and the real thing. How will Starmer’s untested team cope with the brutal realities of power?

How can a new government make Britain better – and what does ‘better’ even mean nowadays?

For good reason – and much to the frustration of the tabloids – the Labour leader’s wife has done a great job of avoiding the spotlight

Will a Labour government prove quietly competent or will their lack of experience in power lead to trouble?

A lacklustre campaign has been marked by an unwillingness to get real about Britain’s problems

Will Keir Starmer lead the shift from chaotic Conservative turmoil into a new era of stability, or will it be more of the same?

Starmer looks poised for victory because those around him understand that Labour is the product of the working class

There must be something better than the juvenile name-calling that has come to characterise our way of government

There are gaping holes in our education system that are vulnerable to exploitation by certain politicians

The Tories under 100 seats, Truss and Corbyn to lose, up to 55 Lib Dem gains and more