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Voters want progress, but there must also be accountability. When you pick up a ballot paper, remember all the waste and incompetence, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

Money operates as a medium of exchange by negating the need for a double coincidence of wants. In a barter economy, if I have chickens and want to purchase a 30-goal-a-season striker, I am reliant on at least one football club being in need of (let's face it, several billion)…

Critics say British Labour Party leader Keir Starmer is dutiful, managerial and a bit dull

Voters to choose new prime minister and MPs, with a host of top Conservatives at risk of being ejected from Commons

Sunak announced general election which could signal an end to his Conservative Party’s 14 years of power in the UK.

Have your say: With Labour leading in the polls, the big question is whether Rishi Sunak can turn the tide for the Conservatives

Britain’s political party leaders are crisscrossing the country on the first day of a six-week election campaign

Many hoped he would show global leadership – instead he pitched himself as ‘pragmatic’ and slowed the journey to net zero

UK political parties began jostling for position on Thursday, setting out their electoral battle plans after embattled Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called a general election for July 4.