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UK general election

  • Friday, 21 June, 2024
    InterviewLunch with the FT
    Keir Starmer: ‘People need hope, but it needs to be realistic hope’

    The UK’s would-be prime minister on resetting the Labour party — and his plan for rebuilding Britain

    2 hours ago
    A watercolour illustration of Keir Starmer wearing a pale blue open-necked shirt
  • Friday, 21 June, 2024
    News in-depthUK general election 2024
    Labour offers £1,000 bonus to hundreds of campaign staff

    Party fights election complacency as Starmer quietly says ‘we’ve got this’

    2 hours ago
    Montage showing Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer speaking during Thursday’s ‘Question Time’ session in York against a polling data backdrop
  • Friday, 21 June, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Election-betting scandal further ties the Tories up in knots

    Sunak’s futile handling of the incident highlights the deceit at the centre of his campaign

    Rishi Sunak opens his hands during the debate as he makes a point
  • Friday, 21 June, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    Sunak says he understands why people may have ‘doubts’ about voting Tory
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  • Friday, 21 June, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    Data Points: the UK general election

    A special series of columns from our chief data reporter in the run-up to the July 4 vote

  • Friday, 21 June, 2024
    Data PointsJohn Burn-Murdoch
    Brace for the most distorted election result in British history

    The demolition of parties to the right will raise fresh doubts about first past the post

  • Friday, 21 June, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    Reform UK had £7mn ‘black hole’ in 2019 election accounts

    Spending on events and equipment cannot account for total shortfall, campaign experts say

    Nigel Farage during the 2019 election campaign
  • Thursday, 20 June, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    Sunak warns that Starmer is promising ‘same fantasies’ as Truss

    Prime minister says he was ‘incredibly angry’ to learn of betting allegations

    Rishi Sunak during a BBC ‘Question Time’ election leaders’ special
  • Thursday, 20 June, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    Unusual burst of bets preceded Rishi Sunak’s election announcement

    Prime minister says he will ‘boot’ out anyone from the party found to have broken the rules

    Prime Minister Rishi Sunak  announces election outside Downing Street
  • Thursday, 20 June, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    ‘Every Tory I know is angry’: betting scandal sends election campaign into ‘freefall’

    Rishi Sunak is facing severe criticism from within his party over his handling of the saga

    Montage shows Rishi Sunak in the foreground with Craig Williams and Laura Saunders in the background
  • Thursday, 20 June, 2024
    UK politics opinion polls
    UK general election poll tracker

    Live-updating state of the parties polling ahead of the general election on July 4

    An image of a hand placing a ballot paper in a ballot box
  • Thursday, 20 June, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    Tory election campaign director on ‘leave’ after gambling probe

    Tony Lee is married to Conservative candidate Laura Saunders, who is being investigated by betting regulator

    Tony Lee and Laura Saunders
  • Thursday, 20 June, 2024
    ExplainerUK general election 2024
    The law behind the Tory party election-betting scandal

    Four people have been embroiled so far: 2 candidates, the party’s campaign director and a police officer

    Montage of betting slip with the date of the UK general election and the Big Ben clocktower against a blue background
  • Thursday, 20 June, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    Disenchantment with the Tories spreads to Sunak’s own seat

    North Yorkshire Labour supporters hope to achieve a historic first — ousting a sitting prime minister

    Shops in the centre of Richmond, North Yorkshire
  • Thursday, 20 June, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    The ‘24 election won’t be won by a tweet, but here’s some data anyway

    X marks the plot

  • Thursday, 20 June, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Why we can’t be sure of the size of the Labour swing

    Tactical voting, negative polarisation and local campaigns could all temper the result

    Keir Starmer stands at a lectern with the Labour tagline ‘Change’ in the background
  • Thursday, 20 June, 2024
    FT live news
    Conservative head of campaigning probed by Gambling Commission
  • Thursday, 20 June, 2024
    Gilts
    Labour could borrow more without UK bond market backlash, say investors

    Relaxing fiscal rules unlikely to provoke a Liz Truss-style gilts crisis, according to fund managers

    Rachel Reeves montage
  • Thursday, 20 June, 2024
    Education
    University sector calls on Labour to raise tuition fees to ‘stabilise the ship’

    UUK chief urges future government to address higher education funding ‘crisis’ as a matter of priority

    London School of Economics students at their graduation
  • Thursday, 20 June, 2024
    Childcare
    Staff shortages undermine manifesto plans to boost childcare in England

    Providers say ‘number one concern’ is lack of workers in low-wage sector

    Children sitting in an art classroom being taught by a teacher in the North East of England
  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    UK government spending
    Extra £38bn a year needed by 2029-30 to ‘revive’ NHS, says think-tank

    Parties ‘need to be honest’ about scale of investment needed to tackle health service crisis in England, warn analysts

    NHS ambulances outside a hospital in London
  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    Officer on Sunak protection detail arrested over alleged bet on timing of UK poll

    Member of political bodyguard unit first to be held since gambling probe launched after admission by Tory MP

    A sign for a polling station in London
  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    Poll predicts Rishi Sunak to lose seat in Tory wipeout

    Savanta forecast gives Labour 516 MPs and record majority

    Rishi Sunak
  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    Tories are ‘politically scarred’ by Liz Truss, says Jeremy Hunt

    Chancellor says his Surrey seat is ‘on a knife edge’ ahead of the July 4 general election

    Jeremy Hunt stands on a street in in Godalming
  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    UK inflation
    UK inflation hits BoE’s 2% target in May

    Rishi Sunak hails ‘very good news’ but markets dial back bets on rate cuts owing to services price pressures

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