Browsing: General election 2024

Jon Stewart calls rejection of UK candidate for liking one of his sketches ‘dumbest thing since Boris Johnson’ The US…

Angela Rayner defies Keir Starmer to back Diane Abbott as Labour election candidate Angela Rayner has given Diane Abbott her…

Labour lead over Conservatives may be overstated, says Tory election expert Exclusive: Robert Hayward, who identified ‘shy Tories’ in 1992,…

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Meet the top teams: the key election advisers to Sunak and Starmer We look at the people who will strategise…

Almost all of Friday’s front pages report on the first day of the general election campaigning. Rishi Sunak is pictured in most papers after his disastrous election announcement. 

Regardless of political leanings, many of yesterday’s newspapers agreed that the prime minister’s snap July election was a ‘gamble’. The papers, the experts, and inside sources all concluded choosing an election just 6 weeks away didn’t seem like a great course of action for a party that’s 20 points behind in the opinion polls. Many also slammed the prime minister’s decision to give the announcement outside in the rain with protesters blasting music over the prime minister – not great optics for the government. 

However, the date is now set and the papers have firmly put their foot in their camps. Yesterday marked day one of the election campaigning – here’s how the papers cover it. 

Labour says early general election leaves many government commitments ‘in the bin’ – UK politics live Bills, including smoking ban…

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has announced that the next general election will be held on July 4. The snap election has shocked the press – and the Tories but has been welcomed by Labour.

Prime minister Rishi Sunak to announce July 4 general election 2024 Rishi Sunak is today set to dramatically announce that…

July 7 general election: Postal vote rules and everything else you need to know Rishi Sunak has called a General…