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Chris Bryant

February 2025

  • Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch at PMQs on Wednesday

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Starmer ‘not telling truth’ over Gaza family asylum decision, claims Badenoch, after PMQs clash – as it happened

    Opposition leader says PM was wrong when he said that the decision was taken under the last government

September 2024

  • Man browsing books in Manchester central library

    The Guardian view on public libraries: these vital spaces provide much more than books

    Editorial: Offering everything from coding clubs to company, they are more essential than ever as other services vanish

July 2024

  • Emily Thornberry giving a speech after being declared winner in Islington South and Finsbury on Friday.

    Emily Thornberry ‘sorry and surprised’ not to be given cabinet role by Starmer

    Former shadow attorney general says she wishes cabinet well and nothing can detract from party’s ‘historic victory’

May 2024

  • A protests agains the Rwanda bill at Downing Street earlier this month

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    UK politics: government to appeal against ruling that blocks Rwanda deportations in Northern Ireland – as it happened

  • Chris Bryant sitting on a couch with hands clasped and arm resting on his knees

    Labour MP Chris Bryant being treated after skin cancer detected in his lung

March 2024

  • Observer Books<br>Chris Bryant MP - author of new book called James and John published by Bloomsbury, 15th Feb 2024

    Books interview
    Chris Bryant: ‘I’m quite an old-fashioned gay, in a way’

    The author and Labour MP on his book about the last men in Britain to be hanged for their sexuality, his misgivings about the Church of England and the novel he always goes back to

February 2024

  • A contemporary newspaper report of the men’s sentencing and execution.

    James and John by Chris Bryant review – the cost of being gay in 19th century London

    The Labour MP tells the story of two men tried and executed for having sex nearly 200 years ago

October 2023

  • Peter Bone.

    Misbehaving MPs: some of the 24 suspended from the current parliament

    This is ‘the worst parliament in history’, according to the former chair of its standards committee. We examine some of the most high-profile cases

September 2023

  • Rishi Sunak speaks to apprentices as he visits Writtle University College near Chelmsford.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    ‘Wishful thinking’ for Sunak to say UK on course to meet emissions targets, says Climate Change Committee boss – as it happened

  • Harriet Harman

    Harriet Harman hoping to take over as chair of standards watchdog

August 2023

  • Chris Bryant in the House of Commons.

    Observer book of the week
    Code of Conduct by Chris Bryant review – a parliamentary pedant’s plan for fixing Britain’s politics

    The Labour chair of the standards committee can rub people up the wrong way with his pomposity, but his manifesto for restoring decency to parliament is nothing if not reasonable
  • Big Ben and Houses of parliament, London<br>Big Ben and Houses of parliament at dusk in London

    Code of Conduct by Chris Bryant review – a manifesto for a better politics

    The chair of the standards committee tackles bullying, corruption and constitutional reform

    • The outdated Commons culture will endure unless parties work together

    • I have been sexually assaulted by five MPs, says Labour’s Chris Bryant

    • Labour MP Chris Bryant on cleaning up parliament, and why he’s not afraid to pick a fight: ‘I’ve got in more scrapes than most people’

July 2023

  • Andrew Rawnsley

    Is this parliament the worst ever? Let’s agree Westminster badly needs reform

    Andrew Rawnsley
  • The prime minister was accused of frequently missing PMQs and avoiding votes on sensitive issue
    2:35

    Chris Bryant confronts Rishi Sunak over absences from parliament – video

  • Metropolitan Police officers outside the Houses of Parliament.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Met investigating two Tory Partygate allegations - but no further action over Chequers events – as it happened

  • John Crace

    The politics sketch
    Rish! finds the liaison committee forgiving under Bernard’s watch

    John Crace

June 2023

  • Boris Johnson

    Furious Tories turn against Boris Johnson after ‘bias’ outburst

    MPs tell Rishi Sunak that the former PM must not be allowed to stand again, while Johnson ally Nigel Adams quits and triggers third byelection
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