Good morning. It’s less than six weeks until the election, and less than two weeks until the deadline for nominations – but in seats all over the UK, many voters don’t know who their candidates will be.
Partly because the timing of the vote was a secret known to only a few in Downing Street, the Tories have about 190 candidates left to announce – including replacements for retiring big beasts like Michael Gove and Andrea Leadsom – and Labour, after a hectic weekend of announcements, 31. The SNP have a full house in Scotland, but the Lib Dems, Reform UK and the Greens still have places to fill. There may be more retirements to come in safe seats, too – and so a decent number of the MPs who will sit in the next parliament aren’t even in contention yet.
