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Sir Keir Starmer is chairing his first cabinet meeting following Labour’s landslide win that ended 14 years of Tory rule. It comes after the new prime minister appointed his top team on Friday afternoon – making few changes to the shadow cabinet that existed before the election. Follow general election fallout live Please use Chrome

Sir Keir Starmer has begun announcing his new cabinet – hours after taking power in a landslide victory. Here’s who the new prime minister has appointed: Angela Rayner Rayner has been Sir Keir Starmer’s deputy since he was elected Labour leader in 2020. She also becomes levelling up secretary – a shadow brief that she

In the last few hours, this country has witnessed a peaceful political revolution and Sir Keir Starmer will begin work as prime minister after a landslide which seemed inconceivable barely three years ago. From today, and for the next five years, our 58th prime minister will have a total command of the Commons, after a

Labour have won a landslide victory in the general election, ending 14 years of Conservative rule, the exit poll suggests. Sir Keir Starmer’s party looks set to secure victory with an estimated overall majority of 170 seats, according to the poll by Ipsos UK for Sky News/BBC/ITV News. Follow general election results live The poll

Voting is a simple process – but it’s also a serious one, with strict rules in place to make sure the election is fair.  Wondering whether you can bring your own pen, your dog, or your favourite political party sweatshirt to the polling station? Sky News has reviewed the rules around election day so you

The last major YouGov poll before the general election puts Labour on course for a major victory, scooping up 431 seats and a majority of 212. It would be the greatest number of seats in the party’s history, surpassing even the 419 won under Tony Blair in the 1997 Labour landslide. Read more: Labour on

He’s still got it. Boris Johnson may have left it late before coming to the party – the Conservative Party, that is – but his 11th-hour rallying cry to the Tory faithful was vintage Boris and just like the old days. It was the kind of shambolic, chaotic but barnstorming box office performance that he

The mother of missing Jay Slater says she and her family are “absolutely devastated” about the teenager’s disappearance. The 19-year-old, from Oswaldtwistle in Lancashire, disappeared on 17 June after setting off to walk back to his accommodation while on holiday in Tenerife. Speaking 15 days on from her son’s disappearance in Tenerife, Debbie Duncan made

Police have appealed for witnesses and information after a 70-year-old woman was found dead at her home in west London. An investigation was launched after Rita Fleming was found unresponsive at an address in Golborne Road in Kensington at around 9.45am on Sunday, 23 June. She was pronounced dead at the scene. Metropolitan Police officers

Just imagine if Gareth Southgate had gone through with the plan to bring off Jude Bellingham. Imagine if Bellingham had been dropped completely from England’s starting line-up against Slovakia as Southgate faced calls to do. What Bellingham produced – in a mesmerising moment of magic – is what Real Madrid fans have been cherishing all

England survived a scare to book their place in the quarter-finals at Euro 2024 after beating Slovakia 2-1 in extra-time. Gareth Southgate’s team fell behind in the 25th minute when Ivan Schranz put Slovakia into a shock lead and they looked to be heading out of the tournament as the game went into injury time.

Leaders and politicians of all parties are coming out swinging today as the general election campaign enters the final days. Rishi Sunak is today saying that Labour would cause “irreversible damage within just 100 days of coming to power”, while his top lieutenants warn of the “danger” of a government led by Sir Keir Starmer.

Gareth Southgate has said it is “irrelevant” how England fans are feeling about him as his team prepare to face Slovakia on Sunday in the last 16 at Euro 2024. England were booed after a 1-1 draw with Denmark in the group stages of the European Championship. The pressure on Southgate has intensified after a

A “massive search” for British teenager Jay Slater will get under way in Tenerife today, almost two weeks after the apprentice bricklayer went missing. The Civil Guard said they would step up their search for the 19-year-old after appealing for volunteer associations, such as firefighters, and individual volunteers with experience in navigating difficult terrain to

A Reform UK canvasser who used a racial slur against Rishi Sunak has called himself a “total fool” and said he has learned his lesson. Footage from an undercover Channel 4 reporter showed Reform campaigner Andrew Parker using a discriminatory term about the prime minister, as well as saying the army should “just shoot” migrants

Eight nurses are suing their employer for sexual harassment and sex discrimination because of a policy which allows trans women to use their women’s changing rooms. The legal action began after 26 nurses wrote to County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust raising their concerns in March. The nurses, who work at Darlington Memorial Hospital,

Prince Harry has been ordered by a High Court judge to explain how messages between him and the ghostwriter of his memoir, Spare, came to be “destroyed”. There is a suggestion they may be relevant to his legal action against the publisher of The Sun newspaper, News Group Newspapers (NGN). Mr Justice Fancourt said the

The construction company which employs missing teenager Jay Slater has urged people to stop sending them “cruel” emails as the search for him enters its 11th day. PH Build Group has shared “one of many” messages it has been sent as conspiracy theories about the 19-year-old’s disappearance are circulated by social media users online. The

A woman arrested over a car crash that killed two eight-year-old girls at a school in Wimbledon will not face charges, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has announced. Nuria Sajjad and Selena Lau died after a Land Rover smashed through a fence and collided with a building at The Study Prep school in Camp Road,

Four men have been arrested on suspicion of aggravated trespass in the grounds of the prime minister’s home, police have confirmed. The incident took place at Rishi Sunak’s constituency address in Kirby Sigston, North Yorkshire, while he was attending events linked to the Japanese state visit in London. A statement from the local force said