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Election 2024: how many seats every party in Westminster is defending – and what they are aiming for on July 4

With polls predicting huge losses for the Conservatives and huge gains for Labour, the election campaign so far has focused on the battle between the two biggest parties in Westminster. But the parliamentary dynamics are exceptionally fluid this year. Here’s a summary of where every party in Westminster currently stands…

The Conversation

Nigel Farage thinks leave-voting Clacton will welcome his return. He may be in for a surprise

In the Essex seaside town synonymous with Brexit, locals tell me their focus is reversing decline, not protest against the EU

The Guardian - UK

Has Nigel Farage ever been an MP? What constituency is he aiming for in July's general election?

The politician claimed that Rishi Sunak had “lost the election already” and that the Tory brand was “ruined”

Evening Standard

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Nigel Farage reveals plan for 'reverse takeover' of the Conservative Party

NIGEL Farage has set out his goal for Reform UK to effectively take over the Conservative Party – and potentially put him in Downing Street.

The National (Scotland)

A cliche purge, a show of empathy and a ‘dead cat’: here’s how Starmer or Sunak can win tonight’s debate

The Labour leader has everything to lose: Sunak everything to gain, says former Tory communications chief Giles Kenningham

The Guardian - UK

Will Labour rebalance the country in favour of working people? I don’t think so

I have watched as corporate lobbyists push to water down Labour’s pro-worker policies. We, the labour movement, must push back, says Unite leader Sharon Graham

The Guardian - UK

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UK's Sunak Prepares For First TV Debate Amid 'Election Crisis'

Conservative Prime Minister Rishi Sunak hunkered down Tuesday as he prepared to go head-to-head with Labour opposition leader Keir Starmer in the first televised debate of the UK general election campaign on the back foot.

International Business Times

Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer go head-to-head in their first TV debate of 2024 election campaign

Personal attacks could feature as PM battles to erode the Labour leader’s huge poll lead

Evening Standard

James Cleverly admits Tories may have flown Union Jack flag wrong way up in election defence video

The Home Secretary was grilled on the flag blunder on live TV

Evening Standard

Zero Tory MPs will be left in Inner London, predicts shock poll showing Labour storming to landslide victory

The YouGov survey showed the Conservatives seeing their number of seats in the capital plummet from 21 to just four

Evening Standard

Nigel Farage appears to ditch key Reform UK immigration policy during live interview

The former UKIP leader ditched the party’s ‘secure detention for all asylum seekers’ plan and said he needed to ‘sort a few things out’

The Independent UK

Why are Green parties polling badly for the European elections?

There is little data to support fears of a ‘greenlash’ – instead voters may have other priorities such as inflation or the Ukraine war

The Guardian - UK

Tory brand is ruined and Labour could go out of control, says Nigel Farage

Reform leader rules out electoral pact with Conservatives and repeats plans for ‘reverse takeover’ of party

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General election: Starmer and Sunak clash over taxes, the NHS and immigration in head-to-head TV debate – as it happened

Labour leader says prime minister’s claim he would raise people’s taxes by £2,000 is ‘nonsense’

The National (Scotland)

John Swinney and Anas Sarwar clash in TV debate over Labour's economy plans

JOHN Swinney told Anas Sarwar that the Labour Party will “prolong austerity” as the pair clashed in last night’s STV leadership debate.

Evening Standard

Nigel Farage: I won't 'spend much time' on Donald Trump campaign trail in America if I'm an MP

Mr Farage has U-turned to become Reform UK leader and stand for Parliament

The Guardian - UK

I’ll welcome a Labour victory and a brighter future, but Britain deserves a better election than this

This is a contest in keeping with our political times. Too little genuine debate, too many key issues barely discussed at all, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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Evening Standard

Tory hopes up in smoke? Nigel Farage's dramatic intervention turns heat on Sunak ahead of tonight's TV debate

Tories get personal as Farage U-turn piles on the pressure over Brexit and migration

The Independent UK

Should 16- year-olds be allowed to vote in the general election? Join The Independent Debate

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has plans to lower the voting age to 16 if his party wins July’s general election — but Tories have been critical of the proposal

The Independent UK

John Curtice says Nigel Farage could cost Tories up to 60 seats

Farage’s return to frontline politics, first revealed exclusively by The Independent at Monday lunchtime, coincides with devastating new polling figures for Rishi Sunak’s party

The Guardian - UK

Starmer has mastered the speeches about Tory ‘chaos’ and ‘decline’, but Britain needs hope – where is it?

The Labour leader needs to say what is wrong with the country, but people need to know how he will make things better, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

The Guardian - UK

UK election debate: what are Sunak’s and Starmer’s attack lines likely to be?

The PM will try to move the focus off the Tories’ record while his opponent attacks them over the economy and the NHS

The Guardian - UK

Disinformation crisis unit on rapid alert around European elections

EU officials anticipate ‘narratives questioning the legitimacy of the elections’ for weeks afterwards

The Guardian - UK

Meet ‘Whitby woman’: she may swing Labour’s vote

North Yorkshire town represents a disproportionate chunk of women nationally – in their 60s, homeowners, pro-Brexit, no degree – who are undecided voters

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