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Close results in constituencies at the election could be challenged in the high court because of delayed postal votes, experts have said.

According to the news agency, Farage addressed the crowd in Clacton on immigration, saying: “How are you getting on for dentists in Clacton? Well then you should have come by dinghy.” He added: “This is unfair, this is wrong and this needs to stop and stop now.” He then went on to start a...

The move was welcomed by the Labour leader who said: “I am delighted to have the support of the Sun. It shows just how much this is a changed party, back in the service of working people, and that is the change on offer tomorrow in this election.” Speculation about who the Rupert Murdoch-owned...

Keir Starmer has insisted the UK will not rejoin either the EU, the single market or the customs union within his lifetime, in his firmest pledge yet that Labour will not seek much closer relations with Europe for as long as he is prime minister. The Labour leader told reporters on Wednesday he...

Rishi Sunak has confided to members of his inner circle that he is fearful of losing his Yorkshire constituency at the general election, the Guardian has been told. The prime minister, who would be the first sitting leader of the country to lose his seat, told confidants before a Conservative...

Rishi Sunak has confided to members of his inner circle that he is fearful of losing his Yorkshire constituency at the general election, the Guardian has been told. The prime minister, who would be the first sitting leader of the country to lose his seat, told confidants before a Conservative...

Labour candidates and activists are privately braced for a surge in support for Nigel Farage’s hard-right Reform UK in north-west England and the Midlands, with some forecasting a margin of fewer than 2,000 votes between the two parties in some seats in Thursday’s general election. In certain...

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Thousands of people fear they will be unable to vote in the general election with delays, human error and Brexit being blamed for missing postal ballot packs in the UK and abroad. Clarissa Killwick, a British citizen living in Italy, said she could not trust the post to deliver her vote in time.

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First time in a long time I made use of a lollipop lady, which got my juices flowing... Are there still as many Lollipop Ladies around these days? Have you used their services recently? Even if at all?

A Reform UK election candidate has disowned the party and is instead backing the local Conservative candidate. Liam Booth-Isherwood, who is standing in Erewash, said there was a “significant moral issue” in parts of the party following what he called “reports of widespread racism and sexism”.