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Harriet Harman

July 2024

  • The Labour party leader, Keir Starmer, and his wife, Victoria

    Tory jibes about Keir Starmer and family time show how out of touch party is

    MPs and others have stressed how important time away from work is for those in top jobs

June 2024

  • Rachel Reeves

    Rachel Reeves vows to close gender pay gap ‘once and for all’ if she is chancellor

  • Ellen Wilkinson speaks at a May Day event in Hyde Park, London, in 1939: in this black and white photo she wears a wide-brimmed hat and black jacket over a white blouse, and has a hand raised as she speaks; two bespectacled men wearing ties and suits are seen in the background, one taking notes.

    The women who came before: Rachel Reeves’s three Labour leading lights

May 2024

  • Harriet Harman MP, photographed in Westminster, central London, April 2024

    Goodbye to all that
    Harriet Harman: ‘Sunak thinks the economy is going to get worse. Otherwise he would wait’

    The Labour veteran entered the commons as one of only 21 women, then spent years fighting for a seat at the table. She discusses sexism, backlash and power as she prepares to leave parliament

March 2024

  • Bill Cash holds up a manila folder

    Tory party to lose almost 1,000 years of Commons experience when MPs quit

  • Image of Big Ben

    ‘This place is utterly dysfunctional’: MPs on why they’re leaving parliament

February 2024

  • Sajid Javid delivers a personal statement to the House of Commons

    Exodus of long-serving MPs leaves Commons facing wave of change

  • Harriet Harman

    Harriet Harman urges party leaders to address MPs’ safety

October 2023

  • Tony Blair waves to well-wishers in Downing Street, London, after Labour ended 18 years of Conservative rule in 1997

    Today in Focus
    From Blair to Starmer: Labour’s path to power – part 2

    Labour went into the 1997 general election full of confidence. Now, 26 years on from that famous victory, Kiran Stacey hears as those who helped craft it look ahead and ask if it is time to be more radical
  • Tony Blair launches new Labour manifesto for the General Election 1997 with Margaret Beckett and Gordon Brown

    Today in Focus
    From Blair to Starmer: Labour’s path to power – part 1

    In 1996 Labour was a year out from an election after more than a decade out of power. Its leader, Tony Blair, was surrounded by advisers and strategists plotting their way to victory. Kiran Stacey hears how they did it and what lessons there are for Keir Starmer’s party as it gathers for its annual conference
  • Tony Blair after winning the UK general election in 1997, with his team behind him

    ‘It was electrifying’: the inside story of Labour’s 1997 election landslide

    Paranoia, relentless activity, infighting – the people who saw it all look back on the dizzying days that made political history

September 2023

  • Harriet Harman

    Harriet Harman hoping to take over as chair of standards watchdog

    Labour MP Stella Creasy also vying for role that became vacant when former chair Chris Bryant was given shadow cabinet role

August 2023

  • ‘Instead of fitting in, stand out’ … Butler in Westminster.

    The G2 interview
    Dawn Butler: ‘It is shocking, the disrespect for Black women in the Commons’

  • Harriet Harman

    Harriet Harman praises ‘heroic’ Tories who ruled Johnson misled MPs

July 2023

  • Jacob Rees-Mogg in Downing Street

    Johnson allies avoid punishment for interfering with Partygate inquiry

    MPs take no further action as Partygate parliamentary proceedings conclude

June 2023

  • Jeremy Clarkson apologised directly to the Duchess of Sussex after his article attracted thousands of complaints.

    Jeremy Clarkson’s Sun article on Meghan was sexist, says press regulator

  • Boris Johnson leaving 10 Downing Street in July 2022.

    Johnson’s Partygate lies would have ‘contaminated’ government, MPs told

  • People protest against former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, in London, Britain, March 22, 2023. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls

    For those who lost loved ones during Covid, Boris Johnson’s deceit is sickening

  • Boris Johnson leaves his house in London, on March 22, 2023

    The Guardian view on the partygate report: MPs must finish the job

March 2023

  • A video grab  shows former British PM Boris Johnson

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Boris Johnson insists Partygate leaving dos were ‘essential for work purposes’ during grilling by MPs – as it happened

    Former PM suggests ‘unsocially distanced farewell gatherings’ were allowed at work and that he didn’t think following guidance meant following it perfectly
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