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The Observer's political editor shares her exclusive insight into what's happening in Westminster, Whitehall and beyond.

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Friedrich Merz is hoping to stay on as Germany’s chancellor even though his party has suffered a second drubbing in two weeks ...

The award-winning poet on having a mind like a weather vane, the ‘torture’ of writing lectures for her Oxford professorship, and why she hasn’t seen Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey ...

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