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Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Labour leader Keir Starmer will meet in multiple TV debates over the course of the election campaign. Neither is considered a big personality, so this will be a test for both men.

As I watched the Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey treat the first week of the general election campaign like an episode of Total Wipeout, I thought of the old joke about a floating voter wandering into Liberal Democrat HQ. “I’d like a copy of your manifesto”. “I am very…

I still feel guilty about standing down, but could no longer put up with a chaotic system that made me feel like a fraud, says the former MP and minister Rory Stewart

The former president, who last week became the first to be convicted of felony crimes, shared a column by the ex-prime minister calling the trial ‘a machine-gun mob-style hit-job on Trump’

Campaigners have written to broadcasters expressing concern that climate is not a more prominent discussion topic

Starmer’s chief of staff came with a reputation as an inquisitor and is not one to work in the shadows

Exclusive: Ukrainian leader says bad peace deal in event of Trump victory would mean end of US as global ‘player’

Ed Davey’s party is seeking to win over disillusioned Conservative voters in the Surrey Heath seat of outgoing minister Michael Gove

Campaigners say the appointments system need to be overhauled amid criticism about alleged Conservative cronyism

After a series of MPs dramatically crossed the floor to join Labour, Keir Starmer joked that the buses were like Tory defectors – ‘You wait for ages and then three come along in a row’

Labour and the Conservatives both launched their battle buses on the weekend.