Politics

Marine Le Pen’s clear win underscores her party’s achievement of making a duplicitous surface-level transformation to voters

In Nice, a stronghold of the French hard right, the racial and political tensions simmer

There is no real point to his Reform Party – so its leader dances ever closer to the extreme right

Labour’s leader has wasted one opportunity to reopen and win the debate. He can’t squander another

The party shows worrying signs of not fully understanding the limits of what might be available to a country outside the club

Reform’s plan is to bang on about PR throughout the next parliament. But Britain had a referendum just 13 years ago

A damning report from a California university says we are in decline and decay

Donald Trump would put America and the world in danger. But he will beat this stumbling president

Did the Gaza encampments that sprung up across British universities achieve anything?

Despite his disastrous debate performance, the president and his party are welded together

Foreign investors are shunning Britain, and there is only one reason why

I hate tactical voting, but with the system we've got we have to use it to get Sunak out of Downing Street

A former editor says the paper’s unquestioning support allowed the Conservatives to lose perspective

Our digest of the worst of Westminster looks at GB News, Rishi Sunak, Isabel Oakeshott, the Daily Telegraph and more

The ideologies aren’t working – and neither are the political parties

When the rest of the world looks at Britain they see a country of systemic failures, dysfunction and absurdity. But it need not be like this

Brexit is clearly the failure it was always going to be, but repairing the damage and avoiding the mistakes of the past is a long-term task

Why have we failed to invest anywhere near as much as our rivals – and what can we do to put things right?

The election might be dull, but the street art it’s inspired is anything but. And its message is: get out and vote

Betgate could join Partygate as a defining scandal of the Tories’ 14 years in power – even if Tory papers were reluctant to touch the story

Tracked down in Somerset, even Jacob Rees-Mogg admits it would be ‘ridiculous to pretend’ that he is not facing a Portillo moment on July 4

Keir Starmer is set for a landslide built on hatred of the Tories. Now he must soothe Britain’s rage – or become its next victim

There are rumours that a Labour government may try to put an end to Westminster’s drinking culture by shutting down the bars on the parliamentary estate

As Marine Le Pen’s extreme right party creeps ever further ahead of its rivals, a new democratic collective has emerged

Unlike Nicola Sturgeon or Alex Salmond, the new SNP leader doesn’t just lack a personality cult, but a personality to form a cult around in the first place

The cross-party political campaign group Unlock Democracy proposes overseas constituencies to better represent Brits abroad

The sentiments of the city’s inhabitants reveal a complex mix of political engagement and disillusionment

They are adrift in the polls, financially hard-up and morally bankrupt.. and now the Conservatives may not even finish second

What the Tories mean by a ‘supermajority’ is that they are set to lose really, really badly on July 4. Good

The best way to fight the Reform leader’s populism is to produce a united front

If the new prime minister gets it right, something better than Blairism is in prospect

Not one single asylum seeker has been deported there, but the UK’s ‘plan’ is seemingly now also an option for Germany