UK Election 2024

Kiran Moodley reflects on his experience reporting on the lead-up to the US Election, and its perhaps inevitable outcome.

We sit down with Prime Minister Keir Starmer to talk about his commitment of 2.5% of GDP on defence and tackling the crisis in UK prisons.

Thangam Debbonaire lost in the Bristol constituency she’d held for nearly decade.

We’re joined by Joshua Reynolds, the new Liberal Democrat MP for Maidenhead. He took the seat from the Conservative Party after the former prime minister Theresa May stood down. 

The House of Commons was bursting at the seams as the new parliament began its first sitting. 

We are joined by Peter Kyle, newly appointed as the secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology.

Krishnan Guru-Murthy: As we’ve just heard, the Chancellor promised to ‘get Britain building again’ with a wave of planning reforms this morning. But how will this actually work? Our economics correspondent Helia Ebrahami has been to one so-called grey-belt site to find out.

Krishnan Guru-Murthy: “The new Chancellor Rachel Reeves has set out the Labour Government’s first policy announcements as MPs started to arrive at Westminster.

A government in a hurry. Today Sir Keir Starmer began a tour of Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales – underlining his intention to ‘reset’ relations with the devolved governments. 

The Green Party say they achieved everything they set out to do in the general election – winning all four of their target seats. 

If Labour’s top tier are getting down to work, what about the newly elected MPs? 

It was all change in Downing Street today as Sir Keir Starmer assembled his cabinet for the first time – promising to “take tough decisions” with a “raw honesty”. 

Three former advisers from across the political spectrum gave us their verdict on Labour’s win.

Labour may have won a sizeable majority but there were a few upsets.

Sinn Fein’s leader Mary Lou Mcdonald said her party was determined to “build a constructive relationship” with the Labour government as Sinn Fein became Northern Ireland’s largest party in Westminster for the first time – although they don’t take up their seats there.