Lead News

Millions of voters are set to cast their ballots in the UK’s first July general election since 1945. Polling stations, set up in buildings like local schools and community halls, will be open between 07:00 and 22:00 BST on Thursday. Around 46 million voters are eligible to elect 650 members of Parliament to the House of Commons. The results for ...

Here are some key issues at stake in the UK general election on Thursday: Will jaded voters turn out? The main opposition Labour party is widely predicted to win and has been determined not to take any risks, making for a lacklustre election campaign. For the past two years, polling has suggested that Labour is 20 points ahead of the ...

Britain’s political leaders made a final push for votes Wednesday on the last day of an election campaign expected to return a Labour government after 14 years of Conservative rule. Ex-premier Boris Johnson staged an 11th-hour rallying call for the flagging Tories but an ally of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak conceded their party was staring at an “extraordinary landslide” defeat. ...

Voting for the first time in a British election, Prathesh Panjak and other immigrant voters are excited to take part in the July 4 ballot, hoping they can influence change in the country that they have chosen to call home. The opposition Labour Party is widely expected to win by a landslide, replacing Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservative Party which ...

The United Kingdom heads to the polls on Thursday in a general election that is expected to see the main opposition Labour party return to power after 14 years. Here are the main players in the nationwide vote. – Keir Starmer – Labour leader Keir Starmer is a former human rights lawyer and chief public prosecutor tipped by pollsters to ...

    ” A total of 98 political parties, large and small, are taking part in the forthcoming UK elections. There are a record number of 4,515 candidates for 650 seats in the House of Commons “ A significant number of British citizens of Bangladeshi origin are contesting from various parties in the national elections of the United Kingdom to ...

Sir Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak were both quizzed about women-only spaces in their final head-to-head debate before the election. So what have the main parties said about transgender rights, women’s rights and gender identity so far? Conservatives Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has suggested voters face a “crystal-clear choice” at this election about the protection of single-sex spaces. The Conservatives ...

The deputy leader of the Labour group on Tower Hamlets council in east London has resigned from the party after Sir Keir Starmer made reference to Bangladesh when answering a question about the deportation of illegal migrants. In a statement posted on X, Councillor Sabina Akhtar said: “I can not be proud of the party any more when the leader ...

The leader of the UK’s Labour Party, Keir Starmer, has claimed that Bangladeshi migrants, among others, are not being removed from the UK. Discussing asylum seekers, Starmer said in an interview to The Sun on Monday that “at the moment, people coming from countries like Bangladesh are not being removed, because they’re not being processed”. His comments were later backed ...

Former home secretary Suella Braverman has told the BBC she still has the 24-hour personal protection she was given while in government because of the threats and harassment she receives. On a recent trip to a supermarket, she said people called her “a genocidal bleep” in front of her children. The government announced a £31m budget for security for politicians ...