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General elections

September 2024

  • Keir Starmer stands in a room holding a mug and speaking while young people look towards him

    Focus on NHS and cost of living or lose former Tory voters, Labour told

  • Sign reading Have you got your ID? next to hand holding British passport and polling card.

    Britons should be able to use wider range of ID to vote, says watchdog

August 2024

  • Andy Street West Midlands Mayor on a bus

    ‘Obsession’ with Reform UK could leave Tories out of power for 20 years, warns Andy Street

    Former West Midlands mayor on why his party was defeated, what they can do about it, and his next steps
  • Rishi Sunak and Craig Williams stand beside each other

    Political figures who bet on election date will not face police charges, Met says

    Gambling Commission still looking into possible offences under Gambling Act, including by seven Met officers
  • Person putting on a Vote Green sticker

    Green party’s ‘progressive politics’ leaves members out in the cold

    Letters: Readers respond to a piece by Neal Lawson on the party’s decision to expel activists who united to oust Jeremy Hunt

July 2024

  • Rishi Sunak And Keir Starmer Face Off In BBC Prime Ministerial Debate<br>NOTTINGHAM, ENGLAND - JUNE 26: (EDITORS NOTE: This handout image was provided by a third-party organization and may not adhere to Getty Images’ editorial policy) (NOTE TO EDITORS: Not for use more than 21 days after issue. You may use this picture without charge only for the purpose of publicising or reporting on current BBC programming, personnel or other BBC output or activity within 21 days of issue. Any use after that time MUST be cleared through BBC Picture Publicity. Please credit the image to the BBC and any named photographer or independent programme maker, as described in the caption.) In this handout photo provided by the BBC, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer (L) and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak (R) debate on stage during the BBC election TV debate at Nottingham Trent University on June 26, 2024 in Nottingham, England. BBC newsreader and journalist Mishal Husain chaired the Head-to-head between Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Labour Leader Keir Starmer in front of the studio audience in Nottingham. (Photo by Jeff Overs/BBC via Getty Images)

    Misinformation has stained recent elections. The government must act

  • Yvette Cooper out on an urban street with a police woman on one side of her and a police man on the other

    ‘Constant abuse’: three UK candidates on their election 2024 experience

  • Jess Phillips, holding Labour campaign leaflets, walking down a residential street

    Ministers urged to act over physical and online intimidation in UK election

  • Green party town councillor Clare Weightman and Lib Dem parliamentary candidate Paul Follows chat outside Godalming town council

    Greens expel Surrey members who allegedly backed tactical voting against Jeremy Hunt

  • UK voter ID laws attack ‘democratic rights of people of colour’, say artists in open letter

  • Labour candidate who lost to new pro-Gaza MP accuses his backers of intimidation

  • Can Britain really keep the rise of the populist right at bay? History tells us it can

    David Kynaston
  • The Conservative party faces an onerous task to rebuild itself, and every Tory must have a say

    Tobias Ellwood
  • Why Labour needs to win over voters who were ‘left behind’

  • The radical who left Oxfam to fight for democracy: ‘Eight men have the same wealth as half the world. Where does this end?’

  • Labour divided over calls to scrap first past the post after landslide win

  • Yvette Cooper says ‘disgraceful scenes’ of election candidate abuse must end

  • I suffered 13 years in opposition – here’s my advice to my despairing fellow Tories

    David Lidington
  • UK government adviser warns assassination attempts becoming more likely

  • From Jacob Rees-Mogg to Jonathan Ashworth: unseated MPs recall best moments

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