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The prime minister faced a grilling from callers furious at the Conservatives’ 14-year record on the state of the NHS and housing - as well as the party’s decision to accept millions from controversial donor Frank Hester

Nearly 30,00 people received fines for breaches of Covid rules, including those caught up in the Partygate scandal, such as Rishi Sunak and Boris Johnson

Calum Miller, the Lib Dem candidate for Bicester and Woodstock, has been faced with widespread disenchantment from former Tory voters

By pitching only to Reform voters, Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives have given up even trying to be a party of mainstream Britain, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

Cleo Watson, former co-deputy chief of staff to Boris Johnson, was fined in the infamous “PartyGate” scandal involving gatherings held at government buildings while the United Kingdom was under a pandemic lockdown. The scandal ultimately saw Johnson step down as prime minister.

John Caudwell had given Boris Johnson £500k to take on Jeremy Corbyn

John Caudwell, the Phones4U founder, says he is ‘rather despairing’ about Conservatives after 51 years of support

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As Rishi Sunak dashed to the South West to try to shore up Tory seats and praised an intervention by Boris Johnson, former chancellor George Osborne warned him he is ‘fighting the wrong campaign’

Humiliated on the campaign trail, Sunak looks to his predecessor for help. Truly, the lost and the damned, says Guardian columnist Hugh Muir

Broadly speaking, there are two distinct types of television dramas: procedurals and serials. The former, often set in a courtroom or police station, specialise in predictable structures with self-contained storylines that typically revolve around a different case or crime.