Victoria Spartz’s campaign has denied the allegations of a toxic workplace and said they have not been contacted by House Ethics Committee

In today’s newsletter: The day after Sunak’s dubious £2,000 tax bomb, debate punditry is getting out of control

Toyin Odumala is calling for temperature-controlled hatches to be placed outside hospitals

The Reform UK leader had been in Clacton-on-Sea to launch his campaign to become an MP

Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer will face each other in the final televised debate of the campaign on 26 June

Though the odds clearly favour Keir Starmer’s Labour, two previous elections remind us that polls can shift during campaigns

Pedro Sánchez questions timing of court order before European elections and accuses opponents of smear campaign

Local council candidate injured with a knife after ‘confronting poster vandals’, says Alternative for Germany’s Tino Chrupalla

Farage launches campaign in Essex constituency and announces intention to take over the Tory party

In the first TV debate of the general election campaign, the prime minister repeatedly pointed to analysis by Treasury civil servants showing a £38.5bn black hole in Sir Keir Starmer’s spending plans

With populists on the left and right winning support across Europe, moderates have found a single issue of their own to campaign on

There should have been a line between the Tory approach and the rightwing demagogue’s but, foolishly, the PM dissolved it, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

Former president joined social media app after days of bad press in hush money trial

Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer clashed on national security and immigration in the first live TV debate of the general election campaign

campaign launch for Essex seat reveals people there are as divided about him as anywhere else

A viral TikTok has resurfaced of a Donald Trump speech from 2016 in which he declared that a "sitting president under felony indictment and ultimately a criminal trial" would "grind government to a halt.” The former pr ...

‘Here I am proving all of them wrong,’ Cody Bryant has said during his recovery from a traumatic brain injury

Nigel Farage joked about having a milkshake thrown on him during a campaign stop in Clacton-on-Sea on Tuesday, 4 June. Images appeared to show a young woman dousing the Reform UK leader with a McDonald’s banana milkshake as he left the Moon and Sta ...

Nigel Farage has launched his Reform UK election party campaign in the Essex seaside town

Reform UK leader accuses Tories and Labour of not being ‘genuinely patriotic’