Tom Tugendhat said he wanted ‘to make clear to people what it is that Reform really is’

Students are exempt during their course but as soon as they finish their final year they are liable to pay

Likely contenders for party’s sixth leader in eight years could depend partly on who survives a big defeat

Investigation details industry campaign including legal threats and charm offensive aimed at Tory MPs

First minister says voters being disfranchised because some ballots yet to arrive with school holidays due to begin

Leader tells BBC he was ‘not proud’ of every decision he took in government from 2010 to 2015 and had made sure his party listened to voters again

US candidates clash over their golf game during the presidential debate while Starmer and Sunak wade through the campaign mud

Nigel Farage has vowed to banish those accused of extremist comments from campaigning for his Reform party after an undercover report from Clacton by Channel 4 News. Archie Bland reports

Let’s take Starmer at its word that it is the party of wealth creation and growth, not redistribution and equality. What will this mean for our politics, asks David Edgerton, professor of modern British history at King’s College London

Exclusive: Boom Radio listeners share in election fatigue but demographic arguably has less to lose than younger voters

We would like to hear what song best sums up the mood heading into the general election

Will the return to ‘boring’ politics make all Britain’s problems magically disappear? If you believe that, I have a bridge to sell you, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

Sometimes Sunak only makes sense if you assume he is actively trying to lose this joyless election

In the third episode of a new series of Anywhere but Westminster, John Harris and John Domokos travel around the West Midlands, and find a fascinating political mixture: hesitant Labour voters, a new crop of independents focused on Palestine and loca ...

The affluent constituency is home to Mayfair clubs, Soho theatres and City types – one of whom told me: ‘We need to pay more tax’, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

 

The Conservatives want us to think child poverty is somehow normal. When you vote next Thursday, remember that chilling fact, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

John Harris returns to Boston, Lincolnshire, where Reform UK’s Richard Tice hopes to capitalise on underlying tensions around immigration and Brexit

The Tories’ cuts were an obvious economic blunder, but their disastrous consequences are still piling up – and there is little hope Labour will reverse the damage

Farage says he is ‘dismayed’ by racist views expressed by Andrew Parker, who was campaigning for Farage to become MP in Clacton