His appearance was the moment the Question Time audience had been waiting for: to give the Tories a kicking

Reform UK leader has also argued against diversity quotas and said people on benefits were ‘too stupid’ to work in appearances over past year

Keir Starmer, John Swinney, Rishi Sunak and Ed Davey took questions from the public on Thursday. We examine their claims on hospital backlogs, Lib Dem policies and Brexit

PM suggests curbs on finance or driving licences for 18-year-olds who refuse service during challenging Question Time leaders’ special

Rishi Sunak’s decision to side with climate deniers isn’t just wrongheaded: it’s costing our environment and our economy, says former energy minister Chris Skidmore

Exclusive: Chris Skidmore, ex-energy minister, says Rishi Sunak’s bid to turn net zero into culture war issue is ‘greatest tragedy of his premiership’

Shortfall between tax owed and tax paid puts issue of avoidance in election spotlight

The Conservatives have been hit with further irregular gambling allegations and the party’s campaigns director has taken a leave of absence. Archie Bland reports

Royal College of Emergency Medicine raises alarm over ‘entirely preventable’ deaths, as elderly people bear brunt

Corb Calow Davies was the under-18 winner at the 2022 Young Cartoonist of the Year awards

NFU and the BRC write to Tories, Labour and Lib Dems over lack of focus on food security in campaigns

John Swinney has put indyref2 at the heart of the party’s manifesto but Scots have more pressing concerns, says journalist and campaigner Lesley Riddoch

Warnings of a looming apocalypse tell us more about Britain than Labour’s modest plan to make education slightly less unequal, says English teacher Lola Okolosie

The effects of austerity, Covid, war and the cost of living crisis are still haunting government and domestic finances

This government had many climate failures, but its 2014 boost to green energy made the UK an offshore wind superpower, says climate professor Rebecca Willis

Minister’s claim comes as new opinion polls suggest party is heading for historic defeat on 4 July

Ed Davey’s Lib Dems have fought a smart campaign – and it is they, not Nigel Farage, who have the pulse of middle England, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

Politics Weekly UK is in the London suburb of Chingford and Woodford Green, where a spat between Labour and its former candidate is threatening to split the progressive vote. The Guardian’s John Harris talks to the now independent candidate, Fai ...

 

The current Labour leader will win; the former leader might. And the dynamics of their rift are being played out around the country, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams