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Rachel Reeves says she cannot rule out autumn tax rises after ‘damaging’ week

Exclusive: Chancellor says she never considered resigning and warns ‘there are costs’ to welfare bill U-turn

Jeremy Corbyn confirms talks about forming new party with Zarah Sultana

Jeremy Corbyn says ‘discussions are ongoing’ after Zarah Sultana claimed she would ‘co-lead new party’ with him – as it happened

Labour’s first year: from voter opinion to market reaction – in charts

Minister demands overhaul of UK’s leading AI institute

Keir Starmer says good relationship with Donald Trump based on shared family values

Opinion

The Guardian view on Labour’s first year in power: crisis reveals the cost of caution

Editorial: Sir Keir Starmer promised competence. But a brutal week revealed he hasn’t delivered it, and his failure to lead with vision may be his undoing

Starmer’s achievements are obvious – to him. As a thought experiment, let’s see things through his eyes

Jonathan Freedland

The time is right for Zarah Sultana’s new party – but it’s already facing its first test

Andy Beckett

Starmer’s reno of the UK is going brilliantly. If you don’t count the walls falling down

Marina Hyde

This was Les Mis in the Commons – and Kemi Badenoch couldn’t resist hamming it up

Simon Jenkins

Who’s really to blame for Labour’s troubles – Rachel Reeves or the invisible PM?

Gaby Hinsliff

The Guardian view on Labour’s NHS plan: it is right to celebrate medical science, but delivery is the hard part

Politics Weekly UK

Every Thursday, Guardian political columnist John Harris hosts a cast of voices from up and down the country as well as across the political spectrum to analyse the week’s political news.

Features & analysis

Sultana’s alliance with Corbyn shows Starmer there is life in the Labour left yet

How to balance the UK books: six options open to Rachel Reeves

Crying in the Commons: why are women’s workplace tears a source of shame?

‘An unjust transition’? Teesside locals divided over net zero after deindustrialisation

Martin Rowson on a year of Keir Starmer’s government – cartoon

As Labour marks its anniversary, Jeremy Corbyn says he is in discussions about creating a new leftwing political party

Ben Jennings on Keir Starmer’s desire to escape from trouble at home – cartoon

Ella Baron on Labour pushing through its welfare reform bill – cartoon

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