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United Kingdom voters will choose a new government on Thursday, when Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives are expected to lose to the left-of-center Labour party.
Millions of voters in Britain are going to the polls Thursday to choose a new House of Commons and a new government.
Opinion polls show Britain's Labour Party, led by Keir Starmer, is on course to win a July 4 election, a result which would end 14 years of Conservative-led government and remove Prime Minister Rishi Sunak from office.
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has billed this week’s UK general election as a chance for the centre-left to start a fight back against the rise of populism and nationalism across the world. Starmer on Monday embarked on a final 72 hours of campaigning in the aftermath of the first round of elections in France,
On Sunday evening, following the England football team's last-gasp equaliser against Slovakia, Mr Sunak posted on social media: "It’s not over until it’s over." Asked if he would be attempting the political equivalent of a Jude Bellingham-esque overhead kick to improve his party's standing,
Boris Johnson made an unexpected campaign appearance on Tuesday night to urge Conservative voters to deny Labour a landslide victory at the UK general election, a last throw of the dice by Rishi Sunak’s Tories to try to prevent huge losses that are expected at Thursday’s vote.
UK opinion polls have been remarkably consistent over the six-week general election campaign: The opposition Labour Party is projected to win, and leader Keir Starmer will be Britain’s new prime minister.
On today’s episode, Laura talks with Paddy and Henry about her interview with Rishi Sunak this morning, in which the PM came out fighting once again. Labour’s campaign chief Pat McFadden was also on her show.
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Voters in the UK will visit polling stations up and down the country on July 4 to have their say in which political party they want to represent their area and country. Prime minister Rishi Sunak announced the snap general election at the end of May,
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak urges supporters to back his governing right-wing Conservative party two days before the country heads to a general election with the Tories trailing the opposition Labour in opinion polls,
Rishi Sunak has warned voters against enabling a Labour ‘supermajority’ at the general election on Thursday as his party continues to lag behind in the polls. The prime minister tested out the new line on the campaign trail in the run-up to polling day in a decidedly defensive move against Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party.
Sir Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak will make a last push for votes as the general election campaign enters its final day on Wednesday, after a second poll in 24 hours showed the Tories narrowing their gap behind Labour.
Sir Keir Starmer has said a big majority would be “better for the country”, as the Tories continue to urge voters to proceed with caution and not hand Labour a “blank cheque”. With just two days to go until polling day,
Rishi Sunak insists he has not given up, with final 48-hour push for votes to ‘stop a Labour supermajority’ – as leading pollster argues polls have been wrong
The Conservatives are at risk of being “all but wiped out” in London, according to a new poll. The Savanta poll found that both Reform and the Liberal Democrats are set to benefit from the Tory troubles,
Two influential business publications, the Financial Times newspaper and The Economist magazine, have declared support for Britain's centre-left Labour party before Thursday's UK election, joining the right-leaning Sunday Times.