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Peter Walker

Peter Walker is acting deputy political editor for the Guardian. He is the author of The Miracle Pill

2 November 2024

  • Badenoch delivers a speech

    Kemi Badenoch wins Tory leadership election

    Conservative party announces Badenoch has beaten rival Robert Jenrick in ballot of party members
  • Kemi Badenoch.

    Engineer, hacker and Ron DeSantis fan: five things about Kemi Badenoch

    While new Tory leader managed to style herself as more moderate candidate, she is known for picking curious fights and pugilistic approach
  • A woman rides along a cycle lane next to heavy traffic in Birmingham

    Speeding delivery e-bikes are a menace – but the solution isn’t to push all cyclists into the road

    Peter Walker
    Birmingham’s plan to ban bikes from pedestrianised streets ignores the real problem of food couriers’ illegally souped-up cycles, writes Peter Walker, the Guardian’s acting deputy political editor

1 November 2024

  • Angela Rayner getting out of a car in Downing Street

    Labour MPs welcome budget that ‘nails colours to the mast’

    Rayner celebrates ‘bold political vision’ of Reeves’ policies, though markets and farmers are less keen
  • Farmer Will Oliver Budget Case Study<br>For Guardian October 2024 Budget Case Study. Pictured is farmer Will Oliver at the family farm at Osbaston House Farm in Osbaston Leicestershire. Photo by Fabio De Paola

    ‘It’s massive’: farmers shocked at budget – but is concern over inheritance tax overblown?

    Countryside defenders from NFU to Clarkson are up in arms – but experts say only richest estate owners will be affected
  • Line of police with backs to camera facing crowd of mainly men waving flags

    Splits in Reform UK as senior figures defend Tommy Robinson supporters

    Howard Cox and Ben Habib take issue with chair saying party wants nothing to do with Robinson and ‘all of that lot’

October 2024

  • Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves with members of staff, during a visit to University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    UK politics: Starmer insists pro-growth policies on way after OBR’s budget warnings – as it happened

  • Ed Davey speaking in the House of Commons.

    Ed Davey: care sector will be ‘pushed to brink’ by national insurance hike and should be exempt

  • Rachel Reeves delivers the budget in the House of Commons

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Autumn budget: Rachel Reeves raises taxes by £40bn and increases spending on NHS and schools – as it happened

  • Rachel Reeves presenting the annual budget statement with cheeky smile and MPs behind her smiling and laughing

    ‘A private jet to, say, California?’: Rachel Reeves’s best budget day jokes

  • Budget 2024: key points at a glance

  • Chancellor pledges extra £500m for social homes in budget

  • No rise in private school closures in England since Labour’s VAT proposal, data shows

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Tommy Robinson charged with phone offence under Terrorism Act – as it happened

  • ‘Working people’ definition is work in progress for No 10

  • Labour MPs fear chancellor’s tough budget will bring new set of problems

  • UK ‘open to discussing non-cash forms of reparatory justice’ for former colonies

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Jeremy Hunt claims Labour changing debt definition will ‘punish families with mortgages’ – as it happened

  • No Labour wrongdoing in Kamala Harris campaign row, says ex-Tory minister

  • Michael Gove says personal attacks on ex-wife Sarah Vine ‘hurt so much’

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