After week of campaign missteps, ‘reset’ is attempt to firm up base and beat back Reform UK, say observers

Former armed forces chief was imprisoned after failed revolt against junta and later campaigned with Nobel laureate under National League for Democracy banner

Rishi Sunak is so convinced he can’t win he’s promising any old mad thing, while the Lib Dems are deliberately falling off paddleboards – Marina Hyde on the election. The couple on a mission to make it easier for everyone to have multi ...

Trump’s campaign said almost 30 per cent of donors were first-time contributors

Crowds gathered outside Trump Tower for the former president’s planned postconviction remarks on Friday, 31 May, following the jury’s unanimous guilty verdict in his hush money trial. Mr Trump scheduled a post-trial news conference in the same lo ...

Political Editor Ben Riley-Smith analyses the four signs that show the Tories are taking all the risks in this election campaign

Aaron Bell said it was ‘with a heavy heart’ that he was stepping down, raising questions about why he had been on the campaign trail since Rishi Sunak called the snap summer poll

The plans, announced after parents had already chosen their schools for September, have been labelled as “discriminatory” by campaigners

Tamir Pardo says alleged campaign under his successor ‘sounds like Cosa Nostra-style blackmail’

Former president had fundraised off legal troubles before. Following the publication of his mugshot in his ongoing 2020 election conspiracy case in Georgia, the Trump campaign used th eimage to rake in millions in donations.

Exclusive: A new poll has revealed that voters back Lord Heseltine in demanding Britain’s relationship with the EU should be ‘front and centre’ of the general election campaign

Former Labour MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle says the party made him a “sacrificial lamb” after he was suspended following a complaint was made about his behaviour. The MP for Brighton Kemptown will not be able to stand as a candidate at the genera ...

A Conservative MP has hit out at “bullies” who posted “excrement” through the letterbox of her constituency office. Katherine Fletcher, who is standing for re-election in South Ribble, said she would not be deterred from campaign ...

It comes as Labour leader was spotted wearing £500 coat while on campaign trail

Labour leader takes on Scotland as Diane Abbott controversy threatens to overshadow his campaign efforts

A bereaved son whose mother died during the coronavirus pandemic confronted Rishi Sunak over the Partygate scandal, asking the prime minister how he could be trusted as he continued the campaign trail on Thursday, 30 May. Nick Fox confronted Mr Sunak ...

Exclusive: Leader challenges Labour to match £500m pledge, to be paid for with US-inspired share buyback tax

The former president has decried the trial as ‘rigged’ and a ‘disgrace’ after he was found guilty on all counts in his hush money trial

Liberal Democrats leader Sir Ed Davey slid down a waterslide riding a rubber ring as the party campaigned about children's mental health on Thursday, 30 May. The politician wore swimming shorts and a T-shirt to ride down the Ultimate Slip n Slide att ...

The party needs to move its campaign on from stories about factionalist infighting – and get on with winning, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee