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Rishi Sunak's Campaign Blunders Lead To Conservative Defeat

The Conservative Party's election campaign led by Rishi Sunak faced missteps and controversies, impacting their success.

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OPINION - The Standard View: Now, let's hope Labour succeeds

It is axiomatic that oppositions don’t win elections, governments lose them. But the Conservative Party has done more than most to keep this political truism alive.

Evening Standard

UK voters expected to make a significant shift away from the ruling Tory party

British voters head to the polls this Thursday, with the opposition Labour Party projected to secure a landslide victory. However, experts suggest that the vote is driven more by fatigue from over a decade of Conservative rule marked by erratic policy decisions, political chaos, and a deteriorating economy, rather than…

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Who’s who in the general election? An explainer for children by The Week Junior

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Major polls predict Starmer’s Labour on course for stunning UK election win

After 14 years of Conservative rule, Keir Starmer’s party looks set to inherit a divided country with faltering economy.

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Hugh Grant urges UK public to ‘destroy’ Rishi Sunak in general election

‘Notting Hill’ star has long been outspoken on subject of politics

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General Election 2024 LIVE: Starmer and Sunak give final speeches as campaigns come to a close

Mel Stride and Suella Braverman have both strongly suggested that a heavy defeat is on the cards for the Conservative Party

Evening Standard

OPINION - So long, Conservatives, and thanks for all the Prime Ministers

So long, and thanks for all the prime ministers. What else is there to say by way of farewell to the Conservative Party? In 14 years of government, it has managed to rack up no fewer than five premiers — three of whom served in a single year. Hardly a…

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Inside the betting scandal-hit constituencies where Tories and Labour have withdrawn support for candidates

The Tories and Labour both withdrew support for candidates being investigated by the Gambling Commission – The Independent speaks to local party supporters who had been campaigning for them, and to voters

The Independent UK

Who Is the Real Pierre Poilievre?

The growing conservative uncertainty over Poilievre’s stance on moral issues

The Walrus

The Conservatives may regret campaigning to keep first past the post in 2011

As the UK prepares for the election in July, the polls do not make pleasant reading for the Conservative party.

The Conversation

General Election: When will we know result for Nigel Farage, Jeremy Corbyn, Jeremy Hunt and other big names?

A string of polls suggest the Conservative party is on course for a record defeat at the July 4 general election.

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Election gambling scandal: bad culture will kill your organisation – you can bet on it

Just as people go bankrupt in two ways – gradually, then suddenly, as Ernest Hemingway famously put it – so organisations corrode morally, first bit by bit and then all in a rush. We are seeing this play out for the Conservative party in the final week of the UK’s…

Evening Standard

Record seven out of ten Britons say: 'We don't like the Tories', bombshell poll finds in blow to Rishi Sunak

Exclusive Ipsos poll for The Standard showed the Conservatives are on a joint record low of just 19 per cent

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Met Police denies claims it leaked identities of Tories implicated in election betting scandal

Scotland Yard denies being source of leaks identifying those being probed for alleged election betting

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Betting rule-breakers 'should be booted out of Tory party' Sunak vows as Starmer grilled on Corbyn

Rishi Sunak defends his handling of the election date betting scandal while Keir Starmer denies he is untrustworthy in a fiery Q&A

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‘We need leadership’: Alistair Carns on leaving the military to become a Labour minister

A colonel and former marine has been appointed veterans’ minister five days after being elected as a Labour MP. Kim Sengupta talks to him about his decision to stand

Evening Standard

What is the Tory election betting scandal and what could happen next?

Labour has also suspended a parliamentary candidate, Kevin Craig, after it emerged he is being investigated for placing bets on a different political event

The Guardian - UK

Could Nigel Farage become the next Tory leader? In some ways, he already has

Rather than providing a check on the far right, the party opened the door to Faragism – and made his fantasies come true, says author Samuel Earle

The Guardian - UK

Pressure on Rishi Sunak as election betting scandal grows

Senior Tories call for suspension of those being investigated and Labour demands to know names in gambling circle

The Guardian - UK

Labour would comply with ICC arrest order for Netanyahu, Lammy reiterates

Shadow foreign secretary repeats belief in ‘rules-based order’ and also says UK would not seek EU membership

The Independent UK

Who’s funding the forthcoming election? From supermarket heirs to entrepreneurs

Individual donors have been dwindling in their support of the Tories and flocking to Labour – with some even switching sides

The Guardian - UK

Tory MPs paid £100,000 of public funds to party’s in-house web designers

Exclusive: Conservatives including Hunt and Truss used Bluetree for websites and claimed costs as expenses

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