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Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at the launch of the Conservative campaign bus (Jonathan Brady/PA)
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What to expect on the General Election campaign trail on Monday

Here is your guide to the main developments in the General Election campaign on Monday:
3 Jun 2024
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Tories vow to make ‘biological sex’ protected characteristic

Rishi Sunak said: ‘The safety of women and girls is too important to allow the current confusion around definitions of sex and gender to persist’

3 Jun 2024
Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer (Henry Nicholls/Victoria Jones/PA)
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Sunak seeks to tackle ‘confusion’ on gender while Starmer goes on defence

Monday will see a focus on gender from the Conservatives, defence from Labour and water from the Lib Dems as the Scottish parties prepare to debate.
3 Jun 2024
Liberal Democrat Leader Sir Ed Davey falls into the water while paddleboarding on Lake Windermere, while on the General Election campaign trail (Peter Byrne/PA)
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Lib Dems pledge protections for coastlines to end ‘environmental vandalism’

Party leader Sir Ed Davey said: “The Conservative Government introduced a toothless scheme which has not protected swimmers and wildlife.”
2 Jun 2024
There are an estimated five million Britons living overseas (PA)
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Cameron urges Britons living abroad to register to vote by June 18

The Foreign Secretary advised the estimated five million Britons living overseas to use their lifelong right to vote in UK elections.
2 Jun 2024
Diane Abbott has said she intends to ‘run and win’ as a Labour candidate (PA)
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Diane Abbott: ‘I intend to run and to win as Labour’s candidate’

Responding to an article suggesting she was still weighing up options, Ms Abbott announced she was the confirmed Labour candidate on X.
2 Jun 2024
Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper and shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson met apprentices from gas distribution company SGN to discuss their plans to create a ‘golden age of lifelong learning’ (Lucy North/PA)
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Apprenticeship training ‘will bring net migration down’ – Yvette Cooper

Labour will reform apprenticeships to ‘tackle the skills gap’ and decrease migration, the shadow home and education secretaries have said.
2 Jun 2024
Yvette Cooper said no party can ‘make those sorts of commitments’ in relation to places in the House of Lords (Toby Melville/PA)
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Labour denies promising peerages to get MPs to stand down

Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said no party can ‘make those sorts of commitments’ in relation to places in the House of Lords.
2 Jun 2024
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Sunak pledges cash to towns as Starmer pitches ‘wealth creation’

The Prime Minister has gone viral on TikTok for being cornered by a student, while Sir Keir Starmer fought discontent over candidate selection.

1 Jun 2024
Labour Party deputy leader Angela Rayner talking to members of staff during a visit to London Stansted airport, in Essex, while on the General Election campaign trail. Picture date: Wednesday May 29, 2024.
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What to expect on the General Election campaign trail on Saturday

Here is your guide to the main developments in the General Election campaign on Saturday.
1 Jun 2024
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and his wife, Victoria (PA)
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Keir Starmer says wife Victoria’s career gives him ‘insight’ into NHS

Speaking about his wife Victoria who works in occupational health, Sir Keir said: ‘She’s absolutely going to carry on working.’
1 Jun 2024
The Tories have announced a pledge to give 30 towns £20 million, a plan which Labour have described as a ‘reckless, unfunded’ commitment (Jacob King/PA)
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Tories pledge £20m to 30 towns, as Labour attack ‘reckless, unfunded’ plan

Rishi Sunak said towns are ‘the beating heart of our country’, while Angela Rayner said the promise was ‘sure to be broken as quickly as it was made’.
31 May 2024
Foreign Secretary Lord David Cameron said Hamas ‘must accept’ the new ceasefire deal outlined by US President Joe Biden (PA)
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Hamas ‘must accept’ Biden’s ceasefire deal – Foreign Secretary David Cameron

Lord Cameron wrote on X: ‘Let’s seize this moment and bring this conflict to an end.’
31 May 2024
A former Labour MP is among those expressing anger as a think tank boss and a former Starmer aide are selected as Welsh Labour candidates in an “insult to Wales”.
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Think tank boss and former Starmer aide chosen as Welsh Labour candidates

A former MP called the selection of Torsten Bell and Alex Barros-Curtis an ‘insult to Wales’.
31 May 2024
Conor Murphy said it was not an ‘easy decision’ for Sinn Fein to stand aside in four constituencies (Liam McBurney/PA)
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Sinn Fein not fielding candidates in four Northern Ireland seats at election

The party will have no presence in East Belfast, North Down, South Belfast and Lagan Valley.
30 May 2024
First minister Michelle O’Neill has welcomed the news that ‘strong and fearless’ former Royal College of Nursing (RCN) chief Pat Cullen is seeking to represent the party in the upcoming General Election (PA)
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Michelle O’Neill praises ‘fearless’ Pat Cullen in her bid to represent Sinn Fein

The Sinn Fein vice-president said she was ‘delighted’ that Ms Cullen has put her name forward to run for Sinn Fein in the area.
30 May 2024
The UK broke its long-time abstention from televised debates in 2010 (Jeff Overs/BBC/PA)
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A history of the TV debate in the UK as Sunak and Starmer prepare to face off

As Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer agree to go head to head next week, here is a history of the TV debate in past general elections.
29 May 2024
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Ed Davey falls into lake as he reveals plan to tackle sewage crisis

Local Liberal Democrat candidate Tim Farron joined his party leader at Low Wood Bay Watersports Centre in Windermere.

28 May 2024
Former health secretary Matt Hancock said in his final speech in the Commons that the vaccine programme was ‘without doubt one of the country’s finest achievements in peacetime’ (Jordan Pettitt/PA)
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‘I’ve tried my hardest’ – Matt Hancock gives final speech as MP

The former health secretary spoke from the Tory benches after having the whip reinstated and said he ‘couldn’t finish without a word about the NHS’.
24 May 2024
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Lords approve extended Euros licensing hours so fans can ‘get properly on lash’

Conservative peer Lord Sharpe of Epsom urged peers to ‘please drink responsibly’ as they passed an order to extend licensing hours during the Euros.

24 May 2024
Commons Leader Penny Mordaunt has likened her SNP adversary to the repeatedly defeated Black Knight from Monty Python (Peter Byrne/PA)
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Mordaunt likens SNP adversary to Black Knight from Monty Python

Commons Leader Penny Mordaunt and her SNP counterpart Deidre Brock have exchanged regular blows at Business Questions over the parliamentary session.
23 May 2024