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In first interview since the election, leader says party’s 72 MPs have a platform for the next parliament

As a childhood reader of spy novels, I acquired high expectations of the secret world. British spies would be flamboyant and exceptional Bond-types. But looking around the post-university scene, I realise that all the people I knew who became spies are dull. There was the humdrum civil service fast streamer…

Ed couldn’t recall his first letter from Alan Bates but couldn’t explain why he replied telling Bates to stop bothering him

Ex-postal affairs minister admits to inquiry that response was ‘poorly judged’ and says sorry to people who had lives ruined

Watch as Sir Ed Davey gave evidence to the Post Office Horizon IT inquiry on Thursday, 18 July.

Davey, Jo Swinson and Vince Cable all held coalition posts at the time of the Post Office scandal, but Tory ex-ministers will be subject to hardest questions

It’s been a strange campaign and election, to say the least.

With England through to the Euro 2024 final, plenty are wondering if the nation will get an extra bank holiday to celebrate

MPs re-elected the speaker and Rishi Sunak addresses the Commons for the first time as leader of the opposition as parliament returns

The Lib Dems gained 61 new seats in a record-breaking general election for the party

Polluted chalk streams in England’s South Downs infuriated voters in Chichester, a seat that had been Conservative for a century