Election campaigns descend into farce. So soon I hear you say!
A look at the biggest gaffes, rows, fiascos and strategies during the first full week of general election campaigning.
Yearly Archives: 2024
The left-wing candidates who won’t be standing for Labour in the general election
The figures on the left who have been deselected by Labour.
Who are the four candidates the Green Party hope to get elected to parliament?
These could be the next Green MPs
Manifesto demands: What political parties must do to end the UK housing crisis
Housing charity Shelter has laid out its key election demands to ‘rebuild out broken housing system’
Diane Abbott ‘free to go forward’ as Labour candidate, Keir Starmer says
The Labour leader has ended the speculation
Nigel Farage given brutal takedown on BBC Question Time over election record
He was also called out for numerous media appearances, while not actually standing as an MP
Lib Dems promise free school meals for all primary schoolchildren
The policy would first be rolled out to 900,000 children in poverty
The most important fact about the general election? It’s rigged.
‘Most Britons think that the electoral system is fair and clean, but it is rigged in a variety of ways.’
How climate experts have rated parties’ green policies ahead of the election
How do Labour, Conservatives, Greens and Lib Dems compare on their promises for the environment
Progressive activists and organisations call for end to Labour’s ‘factional suspension of candidates’
“To win elections and to govern the country effectively Labour must be a broad church.”