Pippa Crerar and Kiran Stacey discuss the confusion around Diane Abbott’s return to Labour. Plus, the Conservative and Lib Dem campaigns so far

International lawyers believe conduct of Israeli intelligence service should be investigated by prosecutor in The Hague

The first week of Britain’s six-week election campaign has seen frenetic activity but not much movement

Paddleboard on Tuesday, bike on Wednesday – the party’s campaign slogan could be ‘Yeah but you’re talking about us, aren’t you?’

A candidate for mayor in Guanajuato state has the army on his roof after the candidate he replaced was shot dead – one of 30 killed so far in this campaign

Rishi Sunak served up bacon and sausage breakfast sandwiches as he arrived in Cornwall for the Conservative Party’s general election campaign. The prime minister took the overnight sleeper train from London Paddington on Tuesday (28 May) to embark ...

War has given impetus to Moscow’s campaign to mould a new generation eager to enlist in military

Questioned about Ms Abbott while campaigning in the West Midlands, the Labour leader said she has not been barred from standing as a Labour candidate

Akshata Murty visits Yorkshire in first solo campaign visit

A pollster has described Labour’s “Change” slogan as “boring”

Robert De Niro branded Donald Trump a “monster” and claimed he “should not be allowed” to be US president again. The actor arrived outside the New York courthouse on behalf of Joe Biden’s re-election campaign on Tuesday (28 M ...

Sir Keir Starmer said a ‘closer relationship’ was needed with the EU as he took part in the campaign trail in Hertfordshire

Exclusive: Labour’s general candidate for Barking apologised publicly for the racist joke but privately described it as a ‘smear campaign’

Big beasts have stepped down, a sitting MP has endorsed a Reform UK candidate and the PM has already had to have a campaign reset. Peter Walker reports

Dig comes as closing arguments are underway in former president’s New York hush money trial

Rishi Sunak is so palpably convinced he can’t win he’s promising any old mad thing. Meanwhile, the Lib Dems are falling off kayaks

Ryan Salame was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison after pleading guilty last year to a campaign finance law violation and a charge of operating an unlicensed money transmitting business

Prime minister makes comment after decision by Northern Ireland minister to go ahead with Greek holiday

Ex-president faces 88 felony counts across four prosecutions as he campaigns for the presidency

Sir Ed Davey fell off a paddleboard into Lake Windermere as the Liberal Democrats hit the campaign trail on Tuesday, 28 May. The Liberal Democrat leader visited the Lake District to outline his proposals to hold the water industry to account. In the ...