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Election 2024: Rishi Sunak has already lost control of the narrative

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has announced that a general election will take place on Thursday July 4. Over the course of the next six weeks, therefore, he and Labour leader Keir Starmer will pit their parties, themselves, and their stories, against each other.

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Football Governance Bill to be delayed – but general election brings bonus to fix ‘broken’ sport

The bill to help set up a football regulator has cross-party support with the Labour Party already asserting its commitment to the legislation

The Independent UK

Sunak hopes record number of TV debates saves Tories from election wipeout as channels battle Euro 2024 clash

Broadcasters face wrestle with football fixtures as fans gear up for the start of the Euros

The Independent UK

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Businesses are ready to back Starmer. Will he give them a week-one reward?

City Comment: The absence of the “Corbyn factor” makes this a hugely different election to 2019

Evening Standard

OPINION - I advised David Cameron before he became PM and this is what I'd tell Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer

We will never know if Gareth Southgate’s Euros squad announcement just the day before was the trigger that caused Rishi Sunak to make his surprise election announcement. Did the Prime Minister look at a line-up loaded with young talent and conclude that going to the polls just as the nation…

Evening Standard

2024 general election: Lib Dems target Jeremy Hunt for their own Portillo moment in the Blue Wall

Labour has its own targets in the Home Counties including Grant Shapps

Evening Standard

Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer trade blows as election campaigns kick off

First day clashes over the economy and migrants as leaders hit campaign trail

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King Charles may wake up in Labour seat as polls show Buckingham Palace constituency going red for first time

The Cities of London and Westminster seat has been held by the Tories since it was created in 1950

Evening Standard

Scotland is key battleground if Labour is to win an election landslide

Rishi Sunak is due north of the border on Thursday afternoon, where he will campaign alongside Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross

Evening Standard

With Labour 20 points in front, the Tories will need a remarkable turnaround to win the election

COMMENTARY: The Conservatives have plumbed new lows of electoral unpopularity since Liz Truss mini-budget debacle in 2022

Evening Standard

Watch again as Keir Starmer kicks off Labour general election campaign in Kent

Watch again as Sir Keir Starmer kicked off Labour’s general election campaign in Kent on Thursday (23 May).

The Independent UK

UK politicians set off on a 6-week election campaign framed as choice between continuity and change

Britain’s political party leaders are crisscrossing the country on the first day of a six-week election campaign

The Independent UK

Rishi Sunak admits no Rwanda deportation flights will take off before election

The morning after calling a snap contest on 4 July, Rishi Sunak said asylum seekers will be deported to the east African nation only ‘if I am re-elected’

The Independent UK

Labour says early general election leaves many government commitments ‘in the bin’ – as it happened

Bills, including smoking ban for people born after 2009, unlikely to become law before 4 July vote

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The Independent UK

‘Skydiving, catamarans’: MP Steve Baker’s extraordinary response when asked what he will do if loses election

Tory MP Steve Baker’s provided a bizarre insight into his like for high-adrenaline sports when asked what he’d do if he lost his Wycombe seat

The Independent UK

‘Things can only get wetter’: The best Rishi Sunak memes as PM is drowned out during election speech

Rishi Sunak has finally announced what social media users are starting to call a ‘Genny Lecs’

Evening Standard

General election LIVE: Rishi Sunak hit by exodus of Tory MPs on first day of campaign

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has embarked on a two-day whistlestop trip taking in all four nations of the UK

The Guardian - UK

The Tories are letting stalkers and abusers out of prison - what better way to start an election campaign?

This latest botched attempt to solve the prisons crisis won’t work, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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The Guardian - UK

Economy, health, migration and more: key battlegrounds in the UK election

The struggling NHS, the climate crisis, education and childcare will be among the issues on voters’ minds

International Business Times

UK Parties Sharpen Knives As General Election Looms

UK political parties began jostling for position on Thursday, setting out their electoral battle plans after embattled Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called a general election for July 4.

The Independent UK

Bear hugs, security ejections and umbrellas just in case: Inside Rishi Sunak’s first election campaign rally

Dried off and ready to go again, Rishi Sunak greets Tory election candidates under the roof of the Excel Centre

The National (Scotland)

Keir Starmer accuses SNP of 'gesture politics' and likens them to Tories

KEIR Starmer has accused the SNP of “gesture politics” and likened them to the Tories...

The Guardian - UK

Cringing in the rain: soggy Rish! kickstarts his farewell tour

‘My plan is working,’ mumbled the PM, his suit drenched, his speech in rags, as Steve Bray cranked up the D:Ream

The Guardian - UK

Things can only get wetter: D:Ream song drowns out Sunak’s damp election announcement

PM makes announcement to sound of song synonymous with Labour’s 1997 election landslide

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak’s election call means he thought the worst was yet to come

The polls show no sign of narrowing and insiders believe an IMF warning of a £30bn hole in the finances was weighing heavy

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