Sunak says ‘all sides should show restraint’ after Iranian attack on Israel – as it happened
British PM says he will speak to Netanyahu to express solidarity and discuss how further escalation can be avoided
Brief letters
Making an April fool of AI and Tory leaders
Brief letters: Search for perfection | Clean living | Thames Water’s woes | Tory donors
UK divided: how 'levelling up' failed
No progress made on half of UK government’s levelling-up targets
Guardian analysis shows situation has deteriorated in three areas that Michael Gove promised to improve
November 2023
Sunday with Michael Heseltine: ‘We see a lot of our children and our nine grandchildren’
The politician on reading the papers, exercising three dogs in a golf buggy and listening to bullfinches
October 2023
From the Guardian archive
From the Guardian archive: some of John Vidal’s greatest pieces
Former environment editor, who has died aged 74, wrote for the Guardian for more than 30 years
Other lives
Robert Priddle obituary
Other lives: Senior civil servant who finished his career as managing director of the International Energy Agency
Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
Minister defends No 10 claim that HS2 decision had not yet been taken despite prerecorded announcement - as it happened
Video of Rishi Sunak announcing the axing of the HS2 Manchester leg was filmed in No 10 before he travelled to conference
September 2023
Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
HS2 may end up as ‘total waste of money’, warns IFS thinktank – as it happened
Comments from Paul Johnson of Institute of Fiscal Studies come as Downing Street hints at delay to work on second phase of rail link
June 2023
Furious Tories turn against Boris Johnson after ‘bias’ outburst
MPs tell Rishi Sunak that the former PM must not be allowed to stand again, while Johnson ally Nigel Adams quits and triggers third byelection
February 2023
Rishi Sunak’s Whitehall carve up merely rearranges the deckchairs
The prime minister hopes this reorganisation will bring faster growth, but he will be disappointed
October 2022
Brief letters
John Smith and Mo Mowlam led the original prawn cocktail offensive
Brief letters: Labour and the City | Morrissey’s motorway stop | Vince Cable’s legacy | Silent school dinners | The Year of the Three Kings
Margaret Thatcher was no team player
Letter: Former Conservative minister Norman Fowler disagrees with one current cabinet member’s description of her administration as ‘true cabinet government’
Truss picked ‘cronies off backbenches’ for cabinet, says Heseltine
Former Tory ‘big beast’ says PM needs to ‘appoint ministers who know what the heck they’re doing’
September 2022
‘Curse of Heseltine’: how the wheels came off Rishi Sunak’s No 10 campaign
Ex-chancellor was leading frontrunner in the race to succeed Boris Johnson but his dreams soon unravelled
February 2022
Why the panic among Boris Johnson’s allies? Because they know Brexit is unravelling
Michael Heseltine
There is an air of desperation in attacks from those on the right and their supporters in the press, says the former deputy prime minister Michael Heseltine
July 2021
Brief letters
New words for those stuck in a viral spiral
Brief letters: Handwashing | Old OS maps | Tory sausages | Sci-fi prequel | Covid neologisms
July 2020
Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
Attendance at English schools 'mandatory' from September, says Williamson – as it happened
Labour leader criticises government lack of leadership on schools; Scotland’s distancing rule to be relaxed for some sectors; lockdown-easing paused in some Scottish towns
January 2020
Brexit: Heseltine says celebrations rub remainers' noses in it
Commemorative coin, countdown and Downing Street light display to mark departure on Friday
