What were the government’s biggest highs and most catastrophic lows in 2025?

Some of the key characters from the government’s year – from left, Andy Burnham, Angela Rayner, Keir Starmer, Rachel Reeves, Donald Trump and Peter Mandelson (Picture: Getty/PA/Reuters)

We’re coming to the end of the first full calendar year under a Labour government since 2009 – and how has it gone?

A kind answer might be: ‘It could have been smoother.’

Less charitably, it’s gone badly enough to dent the British public’s faith in mainstream politics as a whole.

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