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Kemi Badenoch speaks after being elected as the new leader of the opposition Conservative Party.

Tories install Kemi Badenoch as first black leader of Conservatives

Kemi Badenoch will become the new leader of Britain’s Conservative Party, vowing to return the once dominant party to its founding principles to win back voters who handed the Conservatives their worst election defeat in July.

  • Elizabeth Piper and Andrew MacAskill

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Minter Ellison lawyer Peter Bartlett with a copy of The Age from 1980 when the paper pulled a story about the Anzus Papers for legal reasons and replaced it with an advertisement.

Growing up, he didn’t know what a lawyer was. Now he’s celebrating 50 years as a partner

Peter Bartlett has notched up a milestone unlikely to be surpassed.

  • Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
Labour leader Keir Starmer pays tribute to Nick the Incredible Flying Brick of the Monster Raving Loony Party (wearing the hat) and Bobby “Elmo” Smith (in the red costume).

Eight memorable moments from the UK election campaign

From bungee jumping to Count Binface, in the weeks before Labour’s landslide win, the British election generated no shortage of remarkable scenes.

  • Rob Harris
Labour Party leader Keir Starmer waves to party workers and supporters during a post-election rally at the Tate Modern in London.

King Charles asks Starmer to form government after Labour election landslide

Rishi Sunak has stood down as leader of the Conservatives after Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party swept to power, all but wiping out the ruling Tories.

  • Rob Harris
Keir Starmer, Rishi Sunak and the exit poll results.

UK election 2024 as it happened: Rishi Sunak concedes defeat to Keir Starmer; Labour to form majority government

The polls have closed in the UK and Keir Starmer’s Labour Party is poised to take power, sweeping away Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives after 14 years.

  • Rob Harris, Jessica McSweeney, Nick Ralston and Angus Thomson

When I met Starmer, he’d have won my ‘least likely PM’ vote. Look at him now

He’s cautious, a bit bland and with no big vision, but he’s ousted the crooked Conservatives in this chaos-weary country.

  • Kathy Lette
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Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi calls an election as heavy rain falls.

So long UK Conservatives, and thanks for all the memes

The tumultuous Thatcher years were memorialised in song and literature, but this current generation of Tories are probably best forgotten.

  • Rob Harris
Labour leader Keir Starmer during a visit to a boxing club in East Yorkshire in 2021,

Three years ago Keir Starmer considered quitting politics. Now he’s Britain’s PM

The Labour Party has swept to power, ousting the Tories after 14 years. But Starmer will have a lot of work getting voters to believe in his leadership.

  • Rob Harris
Britain’s Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer.

‘A new chapter’: Labour forecast for record-breaking win as polls open in UK election

Rupert Murdoch’s The Sun newspaper has endorsed the opposition Labour Party rather than Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives.

  • Rob Harris
David Tennant and J.K. Rowling have make interventions in the UK election.

JK Rowling, David Tennant clash over gender issues in UK election

The stoush between the entertainers comes amid a now-familiar political debate on transgender policy, with the issue becoming a key battleground in the UK election.

  • Rob Harris

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