Like many young people, I have no hope of finding an NHS dentist – and the lack of free oral healthcare is only deepening class divisions, writes Beth Riding, a winner of the Guardian Foundation’s 2024 Hugo Young award

Rules governing political campaigning on terrestrial television don’t apply to streaming or online – and parties are starting to play dirty, says journalist and author Jonn Elledge

Lords also press ministers to allow independent Rwanda monitoring as deportation bill returns to Commons

 

Sunak likes to pretend his predecessor never happened. But are the moderates going to sit back and cede their party to fanatics, asks Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

Belgian PM condemns move by local mayor to shut down radical rightwing conference as ‘unconstitutional’

At an ambulance dispatch centre in Kent, I saw the sheer scale of the task that lies ahead of Labour to restore the nation’s health, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

Our guiding light will be progressive realism and an end to the reckless, gaffe-prone diplomacy of the Tory years, says shadow foreign secretary David Lammy

Liz Truss is back – kind of. The former PM of just 49 days has published a book, Ten Years to Save the West. The Guardian’s political correspondent Eleni Courea and breaking news correspondent Martin Pengelly discuss her seeming lack of reg ...

Ministers and ex-ministers – some seen as having leadership ambitions – who voted against the bill include Badenoch and Braverman

Thanks to the Brussels police the National Conservatism usual suspects could feel they really were relevant and important

Legislation to return to the Commons with changes that would ensure conformity with UK and other law and protect claimants

The government’s anti-smoking bill gets its second reading in parliament but faces opposition from some Tory MPs

Editorial: The case for removing the two-child and overall benefit caps grows stronger all the time

Health leaders have welcomed plan to create smoke-free generation – but PM is facing trouble from some Tory MPs

We’d like to hear how people under 30 in Britain feel about voting in political elections, and whether they are planning to go to the polls this year

Alison McGovern says UK would ‘grind to a halt’ without unpaid carers and confirms party will review system if it wins power

Why the hell would anyone go out and campaign for Reclaim? Now I’ll never have the chance to find out, writes Zoe Williams

Former PM launches apparent attack on civil servants over plans she said had been put ‘in the bin’

PM’s plan to prevent those under 16 ever being able to buy tobacco should pass due to Labour support, but many of his own MPs could abstain or vote against