In today’s newsletter: Why you shouldn’t expect fireworks from Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer tonight – and how Nigel Farage got covered in milkshake

The newly-crowned Reform UK leader kicked off his general election campaign in Clacton on Tuesday

Police arrested a 25-year-old woman, from Clacton, on suspicion of assault at the scene on Tuesday

From standing below an exit sign to falling off a paddleboard, The Independent has put together the best blunders from the election campaign with more than a month still to go

‘For the first time in American history, a former president that is a convicted felon is now seeking the office of the presidency,’ Biden said in campaign speech in Connecticut

Just minutes after the video was released, it was pointed out that perhaps the most striking part of the video is a shot of the UK’s flag upside down

Farage to launch campaign in Essex constituency in major blow to the Tories

A naked Jon Richardson enjoys a bubble bath and drinks a pint of beer as he takes a swipe at Rishi Sunak in Labour’s new general election campaign advert. The comedian stars in the latest Labour campaign video, which was released on X, formerly Twi ...

Menendez’s independent campaign is largely believed to be a way to allow him to keep fundraising for his legal defense

campaigners say operation to bus ‘undesirable’ people out of city and wider Île-de-France region has intensified

In today’s newsletter: Our daily election round-up launches with Nigel Farage’s unerring ability to force everyone to talk about him

Commission chief is not running in MEP elections but is doing all she can to boost increasingly shaky bid for second term

Sir Keir Starmer has said he would be prepared to deploy nuclear weapons if needed to defend the UK. The Labour leader said the nuclear deterrent programme is “vital” to the UK’s defence and that he would be prepared to use it. Answering questi ...

YouGov to reveal results in its first poll of the election campaign

Rishi Sunak was photobombed by Liberal Democrats campaigners on a boat as he spoke to rowers in Oxfordshire on Monday, 3 June. The prime minister was visiting a riverside rowing club as Lib Dem deputy leader Daisy Cooper and a group of activists rode ...

Find out who’s up and who’s down in the latest polls – and how many seats each party is likely to win in the next general election

Watch as Sir Keir Starmer spoke to pitch Labour as the “party of national security” as he sought to draw attention to defence matters during the general election campaign on Monday, 3 June.

Maldives government will appoint special envoy to assess Palestinian needs and launch fundraising campaign

Rish Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer to face each other on 26 June in what will be the final televised debate of the campaign

Kemi Badenoch says trans people could be excluded from single-sex spaces as Labour says party has had 14 years to change law