Rishi Sunak

It poured rain all day in London but there was a sunny interlude at a convenient moment for the new Labour prime minister

Raw politics and national interests will always triumph, but there is a basis for new Labour PM to work well with Ireland and Europe

Keir Starmer’s party turned the election map red - but secured fewer votes than in 2017 when led by Jeremy Corbyn

New leader names Rachel Reeves as Britain’s first female chancellor of the exchequer

New British prime minister and Labour’s election win greeted with enthusiasm by tourists and party followers outside Downing Street

Labour Party leader now leads a Britain riven by division and uncertainty about its past, present, and future

Tories now face fundamental questions about future direction of the party

House of Commons leader Penny Mordaunt among the well-known MPs rejected by the electorate

Tory election workers strike a defiant note despite crushing electoral defeat

Labour set to secure 410 seats, with Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives on 131

UK election: Tory prime minister Rishi Sunak says he will take responsibility for the result, which could cost half his cabinet their seats in parliament

Comments by ally of Rishi Sunak come as Sun newspaper tells readers to back Keir Starmer on Thursday

London Letter: Joke candidates such as Nick the Incredible Flying Brick are a beloved tradition in British elections

Britain goes to the polls on Thursday in election that Labour is expected to win in a landslide

Labour leader says he is ‘not taking any lectures’ from James Cleverly about elections and accuses Tories of inflicting 14 years of chaos on the country

Physical stamina is an oddly overlooked superpower in modern working life

‘Have we had a few bad apples? We have, although to my knowledge nobody involved in an organised betting ring is standing for us, which is something’

Make no mistake: A far-right government in France would be an earthquake for the EU

The judgments of 15 writers on an eventful run of Conservative governments are nearly always brutal

Part of the reason the British right and its media cheerleaders hate Sunak is that, in Brexit-related discussions, he abandoned the futile jingoistic posturing of his predecessors

Brexiteer Steve Baker will reportedly launch Tory leadership bid if he holds seat, although he faces uphill battle

Tory PM took aim at his likely successor in Downing Street but may really have been trying to throttle the flow of votes from his party to Farage’s Reform UK

The BBC’s final prime ministerial debate before next week’s UK election was as dull as an England soccer match

In the News podcast

Conservative Party faces losing so badly it won’t have enough seats to mount an official opposition. No wonder Tories are suddenly panicking about democracy

Self-inflicted economic, diplomatic and strategic damage will be blamed on Rishi Sunak by Tory media and not on Michael Gove, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss or the Brexit-cheerleading media itself

Election gambling scandal widens to opposition party after Conservatives withdraw support for two of their candidates

Mr Sunak faced yet more questions on the scandal that has engulfed his party over the past week as he was questioned at an event organised by the Sun newspaper

Rishi Sunak criticised amid Gambling Commission investigation into alleged misuse of privileged information by staffers with calls for him to suspend party figures

Controversy over betting on timing of UK election overshadows fourth week of campaign

Rachel Reeves, who is on course to become the first female chancellor of the exchequer, is eyeing economic growth and an improved trade deal with the EU

Metropolitan Police officer was detained on Monday on ‘suspicion of misconduct in public office’

Inside Business podcast with Ciarán Hancock

Slowdown in price growth has allowed Rishi Sunak to declare victory over cost-of-living squeeze but is unlikely to aid Conservative Party in July election

Nigel Farage launches his party’s offering for the July 4th poll in Wales, upstaging Labour and the Tories

Market research company Savanta found 46% support for Labour Party, up two points on previous poll five days earlier, while support for Conservatives dropped four points to 21%

Planet Business: Apple has us shaking our heads, Paramount calls off a planned merger and it never rains but it pours for Rishi Sunak

Overlong and stuffed with unsavoury characters: is it a Marvel film or the Conservatives’ reign in Westminster?

Manifesto marks break from party’s ‘tax and spend’ image

Sunak says he has not lost hope of winning UK general election