The UK and France now have to deal with very uncertain futures

The UK and France now have to deal with very uncertain futures

Two very different election outcomes last weekend have produced very similar challenges that the governments will struggle to deal with.

  • byStephen Bartholomeusz

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How Anthony Albanese helped Keir Starmer win his way to Downing Street

How Anthony Albanese helped Keir Starmer win his way to Downing Street

Political gurus worldwide often look to the US to live out a West Wing-style fantasy,but UK watchers say it is Australia that really sets the tone in Westminster.

  • byRob Harris
Celebrations will be short-lived for Starmer,he’s got to fix a broken Britain
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UK politics

Celebrations will be short-lived for Starmer,he’s got to fix a broken Britain

Britain’s new prime minister faces perhaps the most monumental challenges of any incoming UK leader since Clement Attlee’s Labour Party won in a landslide in 1945.

  • byRob Harris
Ditching Boris sowed seeds of shambolic Tory defeat

Ditching Boris sowed seeds of shambolic Tory defeat

Everything went downhill for the UK Conservatives after the political assassination of Boris Johnson two years ago. It was a spectacular act of political self-harm.

  • byGeorge Brandis
A Christian attitude could civilise politics

A Christian attitude could civilise politics

That belief is that Jesus is Lord of all,above any government or political party,should affect how Christians treat political opponents.

  • byBarney Zwartz
Eight memorable moments from the UK election campaign

Eight memorable moments from the UK election campaign

From bungee jumping to Count Binface,in the weeks before Labour’s landslide win,the British election generated no shortage of remarkable scenes.

  • byRob Harris
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‘This is for Gaza’:What the UK election means for Anthony Albanese
Analysis
UK politics

‘This is for Gaza’:What the UK election means for Anthony Albanese

UK Labour lost five seats to pro-Palestinian independent candidates during the course of the night,all in areas with significant Muslim populations.

  • byRob Harris
King Charles asks Starmer to form government after Labour election landslide

King Charles asks Starmer to form government after Labour election landslide

Rishi Sunak has stood down as leader of the Conservatives after Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party swept to power,all but wiping out the ruling Tories.

  • byRob Harris
UK election 2024 as it happened:Rishi Sunak concedes defeat to Keir Starmer;Labour to form majority government

UK election 2024 as it happened:Rishi Sunak concedes defeat to Keir Starmer;Labour to form majority government

The polls have closed in the UK and Keir Starmer’s Labour Party is poised to take power,sweeping away Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives after 14 years.

  • byRob Harris,Jessica McSweeney,Nick Ralston andAngus Thomson
When I met Starmer,he’d have won my ‘least likely PM’ vote. Look at him now

When I met Starmer,he’d have won my ‘least likely PM’ vote. Look at him now

He’s cautious,a bit bland and with no big vision,but he’s ousted the crooked Conservatives in this chaos-weary country.

  • byKathy Lette
So long UK Conservatives,and thanks for all the memes
Analysis
UK election

So long UK Conservatives,and thanks for all the memes

The tumultuous Thatcher years were memorialised in song and literature,but this current generation of Tories are probably best forgotten.

  • byRob Harris