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  • Thursday, 20 June, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    Tory candidate in gambling probe married to party campaign chief

    Laura Saunders, wife of campaign director Tony Lee, is being investigated over an election-related bet

    updated
    Laura Saunders
  • 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

    new
    Keir Starmer stands at a lectern with the Labour tagline ‘Change’ in the background
  • 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
    Robert Shrimsley
    No, Keir, the real opposition is behind you

    Forget the Conservatives, it is his backbench MPs who will put pressure on Starmer

    Keir Starmer against an outline of people against a red background
  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Potential routes forward for the Tories post-election

    The party can only rebound if its leadership hopefuls learn the right lessons

    Rishi Sunak chats to a voter in a barn in Clovelly
  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    Weary Crawley voters stuck in ‘Robin Hood’ economy

    Mixed fortunes in Sussex ‘new town’ dent confidence in main parties’ ability to restore prosperity

    Queen’s Square, Crawley
  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    Tories deploy Boris Johnson to try to rejuvenate election campaign

    Former PM endorses candidates as new poll predicts historic Conservative loss

    Montage of Boris Johnson, left, and Rishi Sunak
  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    Tory leadership hopefuls jostle to replace Sunak

    Potential aspirants are courting MPs, building up grassroots support and stepping up social media output

    Prime Minister Rishi Sunak holds two lobsters while campaigning at the fishing harbour of Clovelly in Devon
  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    Stephen Bush
    Neither politicians nor the public think straight on immigration

    The problem is that voters aren’t willing to pay for a policy they say really matters to them

    Ewan White illustration of bricklayers building a wall in a desert.
  • Monday, 17 June, 2024
    Inside PoliticsStephen Bush
    Labour’s tax-and-spend commitments will hamper ‘change’ plans

    Myriad challenges — from drinking water to prisons — will require increased spending to solve

    A person holding the Labour party general election manifesto
  • Sunday, 16 June, 2024
    News in-depthUK general election 2024
    Public anger over sewage boosts Lib Dems’ chances in key Tory battlegrounds

    Opposition party makes inroads in South East England seats where water pollution has sparked public anger

    Montage of Surfers Against Sewage protester against FT data backdrop
  • Saturday, 15 June, 2024
    Personal Finance
    Will the election leave you better off?

    Both Labour and the Tories have released their manifestos — which will have the biggest impact on your personal finances?

  • Friday, 14 June, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    Sunak refuses to change Tory strategy after Reform ‘crossover’ poll

    Prime minister faces recriminations from both rightwingers and centrists within his party

    Montage of Rishi Sunak and Nigel Farage
  • Friday, 14 June, 2024
    Accounting & Consulting services
    Consultants to lose £3bn of UK government work under plan to halve advisory spend

    Both Tories and Labour pledge to cut reliance on external firms

    Whitehall sign
  • Friday, 14 June, 2024
    UK politics21 min
    Sketchy Politics: the extinction election?

    Robert Shrimsley and Miranda Green ask whether Reform might be behind a Conservative extinction level event

    Sketchy politics: extinction election?
  • Friday, 14 June, 2024
    Jeremy Hunt
    Jeremy Hunt: Economic growth calls for more than stability — it demands ambition

    To govern is to choose. We have been prepared to be unpopular when it was the right thing for the UK economy

    Illustration of a hand holding a piggy bank against a blue background.
  • Friday, 14 June, 2024
    UK political party funding
    Labour’s donations in first week of campaign nearly double Tories’

    Gifts to Sir Keir Starmer’s party pre-election top £1mn while big Conservative donors step back

    Duncan Kenworthy
  • Friday, 14 June, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    UK expats throw shade on the Tories under the Spanish sun

    Anger over impact of Brexit has turned overseas supporters against the party

    Expats at the Bar Las Palmeras II
  • Friday, 14 June, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Reform’s second-place standing in polls underscores potential scale of Tory defeat

    Plus, some thoughts on Labour’s no-surprises manifesto

    Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner at the manifesto launch event in Manchester
  • Friday, 14 June, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    Sunak warns voting for Reform will hand ‘blank cheque’ to Labour

    Thursday evening poll shows Nigel Farage ahead of Tories

    Rishi Sunak arrives at Swabian Castle for a dinner at the G7 summit in Brindisi, Italy, on Thursday
  • Friday, 14 June, 2024
    ExplainerUK general election 2024
    The pollsters’ conundrum: how big or small a victory could Labour win?

    Significant potential swings, tactical voting and undecided voters may all play havoc with forecasting models

    Montage of a hand casting a ballot and charts
  • Thursday, 13 June, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    Labour would never seek to take UK back into EU, says Rayner

    Opposition party has agreed to respect outcome of Brexit referendum

    Angela Rayner in the ITV debate studio
  • Thursday, 13 June, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    Nigel Farage’s Reform UK overtakes Conservatives in new opinion poll

    YouGov finds rightwing party has surpassed Tories, in a first for a national survey

    Nigel Farage arriving at the Donald Trump fundraiser in London
  • Thursday, 13 June, 2024
    NHS England
    NHS waiting lists in England rise to 7.57mn

    First rise in 7 months blow to Rishi Sunak’s claim number is falling

    An anesthetist checks information displayed on electronic screens during an operation inside theater at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham
  • Thursday, 13 June, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Despondence grows as election campaign reaches halfway point

    Conservative party staffers — and the people most likely to vote for them — despair at their languishing pitch

    People view the Conservative party’s manifesto at its launch event in Northamptonshire
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