Tory chairman Richard Holden is demanding Keir Starmer answers about Diane Abbott

Rishi sunak and Sir Keir Starmer are scheduled to take part in two head-to-head TV debates

MPs say they have ‘little confidence’ in Home Office’s ability to organise deportation flights to Rwanda

Government lawyers had told the court flights could go in late June – but then Rishi sunak called the election

SNP’s Stephen Flynn hails MP as a ‘phenomenal individual’ and contrasts her treatment with the welcome given to Tories’ Natalie Elphicke

The prime minister wants to see the worst-performing university courses replaced with high-skilled apprenticeships

These debates are rarely useful, let alone enlightening. Let’s have a head-to-head of progressive parties instead, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

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

Conscription scheme shows sunak does not understand level of danger facing Britain – or the help the military needs to prepare for it, says Admiral Lord West

Shadow health secretary jokes Labour leader should take on sunak in football challenge but says he is ‘disgusted’ by name-calling

 

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

Conservatives’ policy would be funded by scrapping ‘rip-off degrees’ with high drop-out rates and low job progression

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

Which party has had the better of the first exchanges on the new social media election battleground?

Have your say: In his first major policy proposal since the general election was announced the prime minister insisted his plans for mandatory national service would help unite society

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

Rachel Reeves recalled how her mother's attitude to finances has inspired her economic policies in a major general election campaign speech on Tuesday, 28 May. The shadow chancellor described how her mother would sit at the kitchen table "c ...

Rishi sunak says the pledge will prevent millions of pensioners from paying more tax

Plans announced in recent days include mandatory national service and a ‘triple lock plus’ for pensioners