Today (Thursday 27 January) marks the 2,500th instalment of the Guardian’s Politics Live blog with Andrew Sparrow, with over a decade bringing Guardian readers all over the world the day’s political stories live from Westminster.
Beginning as a daily general election blog in March 2010 before launching as Politics Live with Andrew Sparrow in May 2010, the first edition covered the Tory-Lib Dem coalition and news of George Osborne’s plans to cut public spending.