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The crisis of poverty that has taken root in the UK over the past 14 years has been laid bare in two reports that reveal the devastating effects that low wages and price increases have had on the lives of 900,000 children.more

No matter how heavy a defeat the Conservative Party suffers in the House of Commons elections, it should not yet be struck off as a political force, and being replaced by Reform UK will not be as easy as Nigel Farage seems to think, according to experts at the think tank UK in a Changing Europe.more

Above all, the Conservative Party is trying to draw clear dividing lines between it and the opposition, while Labour is trying to do nothing to make it harder for it to win, say experts at Queen Mary University of London about the election programmes of Britain's two main parties.more

A suspiciously large number of bets that the House of Commons elections would be held on July 4, placed a day before the announcement of that date, became another problem for British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. Two candidates for MPs from his Conservative Party have already been investigated in this case.more

Rishi Sunak is in danger of becoming the first incumbent British Prime Minister in history not to get into the House of Commons by losing an election in his own constituency, according to a Savant Centre poll for the 'Daily Telegraph' published yesterday afternoon.more

Nigel Farage, leader of the right-wing populist Reform UK party, declared yesterday that his party could get up to 6 million votes in the House of Commons elections and that he wants to be leader of the opposition afterwards. He also demanded to be included in the forthcoming pre-election party leaders' debate on the BBC.more

The two main parties in the government coalition, Fianna Fail and Fine Gael, won the European Parliament elections in Ireland, winning four of the country's 14 seats each, results announced yesterday morning show.more

The country's economic growth and increasing prosperity is the leitmotif of the election program presented yesterday by the opposition Labor Party, which is clearly leading in the polls ahead of the elections to the British House of Commons scheduled for July 4.more

Opposition Labour Party leader Keir Starmer fared significantly better than Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in their second pre-election debate last night on Sky News, according to a flash poll conducted by the YouGov centre.more

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak yesterday presented his Conservative Party's program for the House of Commons elections scheduled for July 4, but according to the media, it does not contain any promise significant enough for the party to hope to make up for the massive poll loss to the Labor Party.more

As many as 4,515 candidates are vying for 650 parliamentary seats in July's House of Commons elections - the highest number of candidates in the history of voting in the UK and a 35.7 per cent increase on the previous election.more

President Joe Biden has a slightly better chance of winning the November presidential election than his rival Donald Trump, according to the inaugural forecast of the renowned FiveThirtyEight center. The model constructed by analysts gives Biden 53 percent. chances of winning, even though the polls themselves are slightly in Trump's favor.more

The Conservatives have vowed to reverse the Ultra-low emission zone (Ulez) expansion if they win the general election. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has promised to push through a “Backing Drivers Bill” in the first parliamentary session after the July 4 election, which would also stop pay-per-mile road taxes and rule out blanket low traffic neighbourhoods.more

Two people have been arrested after Nigel Farage had a milkshake thrown over him while launching his personal election campaign in Clacton. The Reform UK leader was leaving a pub after carrying out media interviews when a woman appeared to hurl a McDonald's banana milkshake over his face and suit jacket.more

Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer have faced off in the first TV debate of the general election, with heated exchanges over tax, the NHS and immigration. The Conservative and Labour leaders got scrappy at times, forcing the host of the ITV event to intervene and urge the pair to "lower your voices".more

The UK's opposition Labour Party will have a lead of 194 seats in the elected House of Commons on 4 July, which would be the largest lead gained by any party since 1931, according to a YouGov poll published yesterday.more

The main proponent of Brexit, Nigel Farage, unexpectedly announced yesterday that he would nevertheless run in July's House of Commons elections and is once again leading the right-wing Reform UK party. This is very bad news for the ruling Conservative Party, whose Reform UK is picking up the electorate.more

Donald Trump has been found guilty on all counts in his historic New York criminal trial, becoming the first former or sitting president to be convicted of a crime as he makes a bid to return to the White House.more

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak promised yesterday that if his Conservative Party wins the July election to the House of Commons, he would scrap ‘rip-off’ degree courses, i.e. those with few career prospects, and spend the money saved on funding high-quality apprenticeships.more

Labour has promised to clear the NHS waiting list backlog in England within five years, with Wes Streeting warning that the health service risks becoming “a poor service for poor people” while the wealthy shift to using private care.more

The opposition Labour Party has a 22 percentage point lead over the ruling Conservative Party, according to a YouGov poll published yesterday for The Times newspaper, the first conducted after British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced that elections for the House of Commons will be held on 4 July.more

British PM Rishi Sunak admitted yesterday that deportations of illegal migrants to Rwanda would not start before the general election, which he has set for 4 July. He also denied that he had set such a date for the vote for fear of a return of inflation and another wave of migrant crossings across the Channel expected in the summer.more

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced yesterday that elections to the House of Commons will be held on 4 July. He also announced that he had already obtained the formal consent of King Charles III to dissolve Parliament, which will take place on 30 May.more

Rishi Sunak has vowed to "fight for every vote" as he called an early UK general election for Thursday 4 July. The PM made the announcement in a rain-soaked speech outside 10 Downing Street, as he bids to win a fifth term in office for the Conservatives. The surprise move overturned expectations of an autumn poll, which might have given the Tories a better chance of closing the gap with Labour.more

Rishi Sunak has said the general election result is "not a foregone conclusion", despite "a disappointing" set of local elections for the Tories. Speaking to broadcasters for the first time since the extent of Tory losses were clear, the PM said he was "determined to fight" on.more