UK election

Starmer’s arrival at Number 10 will bring a reset in Anglo-Irish relations

Reverberations after a remarkable week politics will be felt for years to come

Starmer seeks ‘immediate reset’ of relationship with North, Scotland and Wales on UK tour

New prime minister insists ‘respect’ will be key ingredient in bond between the new administration and its counterparts in the devolved nations

The fall of Ian Paisley junior and the house of Paisley

Jim Allister ousted Ian junior, 54 years after Ian senior had won the North Antrim seat

NI Secretary Hilary Benn promises to form new relationship between UK government and Stormont

Mr Benn was speaking after meeting with Stormont leaders Michelle O’Neill and Emma Little-Pengelly

Keir Starmer tells UK ministers there is ‘huge amount of work to do’ at first cabinet meeting

‘Honor of my life’ to be asked by king to form UK government after historic victory, says new prime minister

Ray of hope for Britain as clouds briefly part for Keir Starmer’s arrival at Downing Street

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

New UK PM Keir Starmer invites Simon Harris to Downing Street after Tory election collapse

Hilary Benn named NI Secretary; Rishi Sunak says ‘sorry’ as he steps down as Conservative leader; Ian Paisley jnr loses seat

NI election: Sinn Féin now biggest party in Westminster, Stormont and council after DUP losses

Alliance makes history with first non-DUP MP in Lagan Valley, while TUV unseats Ian Paisley

All is changed, changed utterly: Starmer’s Downing Street reign presents chance to rebuild old ties

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

The Irish Times view on elections in Northern Ireland: tectonic shifts in unionism

The turbulence in unionism contrasts with the calm predictability on the nationalist side

Reform UK loses out in first-past-the-post anomaly despite winning one in seven votes

Farage’s party got a bigger vote than the Liberal Democrats but ended up with 67 fewer seats

Liberal Democrats record their best result for more than a century

Ed Davey's party wins 71 seats and benefit from tactical voting in their heartlands.

Conservatives lost UK’s landslide election just as much as Labour won it

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

Peers, polls, politics and a proper party: Labour faithful’s prayers answered … finally

UK election: Labour’s ‘official unofficial’ election-watch festivities had wedding vibes, and then the DJ played D:Ream

Labour eyes control of Scotland’s parliament after routing SNP in election

Scottish Labour under Anas Sarwar has completed a Lazarus-like recovery

Keir Starmer enters Downing Street as UK prime minister after historic victory

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

‘I’m absolutely shattered but it has been worth it’: Things only getting better for Starmer’s supporters

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

Boost for Sinn Féin but result underlines differences between North and South

Party up by more than 4% since 2019, delivering timely morale boost after reversal down South at local and European elections

DUP suffers ‘bigger than seismic’ defeat with Ian Paisley losing seat held by family for more than 50 years

Ian Paisley jnr suffers historic loss as Northern Ireland election results see party suffer

How did Northern Ireland vote? A full breakdown of how each constituency voted in the UK election

Full results for the 18 Northern Ireland constituencies

Sinn Féin’s Cathal Mallaghan comfortably retains stronghold of Mid Ulster for party

Mallaghan succeeds outgoing Francie Molloy of SF after coming some 15,000 votes ahead of DUP candidate Keith Buchanan

Sinn Féin incumbent Órfhlaith Begley retains West Tyrone seat with overwhelming majority

UK election: Begley almost doubles her majority over DUP candidate Tom Buchanan since 2019

Colum Eastwood retains seat with reduced majority in Foyle

Sinn Féin candidate Sandra Duffy, a councillor and former mayor of Derry City, received 11,481 votes

Keir Starmer: Britain’s new PM shaped by a distant father and deep ‘love’ for Ireland

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

Ulster Unionist Robin Swann comfortably regains South Antrim seat party lost in 2017

DUP’s Paul Girvan trails Swann by a margin of 7,512 votes amid an overall poor election peformance by the DUP

Starmer win offers Anglo-Irish relations ‘reset’

Labour is preparing for power after the UK election saw the Tories swept out of office while in Dublin, officials are hoping for improved relations with our neighbour

Conservative problems long pre-dated Sunak’s leadership

Tories now face fundamental questions about future direction of the party

Sinn Féin’s Chris Hazzard wins by comfortable margin in South Down

SDLP’s Colin McGrath came in second with DUP candidate Diane Forsythe in third

DUP’s Sammy Wilson retains East Antrim seat but suffers cut in personal vote

UK election: Wilson uses victory speech to tell other unionist parties those who ‘split’ the unionist vote should be ‘ashamed’

Jim Shannon’s Strangford win one of few highlights for the DUP

Alliance may wonder what could have been if they had run a higher-profile candidate

SDLP’s Claire Hanna re-elected in renamed Belfast South & Mid Down constituency

UK election: Strong personal vote sees Hanna securing 49 per cent of the vote and 21,345 votes

Sinn Féin’s Paul Maskey retains the safest of seats in Belfast West

Vote share dropped for the re-elected MP but was still comfortably above 50 per cent

Sinn Féin’s Dáire Hughes takes Newry and Armagh seat with ease

Party’s deputy general secretary gained 2,012 votes from than departing MP Mickey Brady

Sinn Féin’s Pat Cullen secures decisive win over UUP in Fermanagh & South Tyrone

UUP’s Diana Armstrong trails former head of the Royal College of Nursing by more than 4,000 votes

Sinn Féin’s John Finucane comfortably retains seat in Belfast North

Finucane increased his majority to 5,612 with his closest challenger being the DUP MLA Philip Brett

Britain and Northern Ireland wake up to new political realities

Inside Politics Election Special: Our panel analyses Labour’s landslide victory, and disasters for the DUP and Tories

Gavin Robinson holds off Naomi Long to retain DUP seat in East Belfast

Constituency had been billed as the battle of the election with some anticipating a split in the unionist vote

DUP’s Gregory Campbell retains seat but Sinn Féin make big gains in East Derry

Kathleen McGurk was just 179 votes from taking the seat in a constituency that has been a unionist stronghold since its creation

‘Political earthquake’ as TUV’s Jim Allister overthrows Paisley dynasty in North Antrim

Ian Paisley jnr's loss of what was seen as safest DUP seat is the biggest general election shock in Northern Ireland

UK markets advance on foot of Labour’s election night sweep

Hope that a new era of calmer, moderate British politics can avoid fiscal turmoil that upended bond markets in 2022

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