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Latest polling shows UK Labour likely to win landslide at next week’s election, while Biden gains on Trump across the pond

The United Kingdom general election will be held in a week, on July 4. Polls close at 7am AEST on July 5. The 650 members of the House of Commons are elected by first-past-the-post, in which the candidate with the most votes wins the seat.

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After 14 years in opposition, Labour’s cabinet will be inexperienced – is that a problem?

It’s 100 years since the Labour party took office for the first time, back then with a minority government. Now, in 2024, it looks set to win an election with what will possibly the largest majority in history.

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Nigel Farage’s Reform is in line for hundreds of thousands in public funding if it wins seats in the election

Nigel Farage’s party, Reform UK, has a reputation for being chaotic and even unprofessional. But winning seats in the House of Commons would be a significant step on the road to becoming a political party akin to all the others.

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A British ‘supermajority’ is nonsense – but a Labour landslide still has consequences

In a somewhat unusual tactic for a governing party seeking re-election, senior Conservative figures have all but conceded defeat two weeks before polling day. Instead of campaigning on their plans for another term in government, cabinet ministers, from the prime minister down, have taken to warning of the dangers of…

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The women who came before: Rachel Reeves’s three Labour leading lights

Reeves, who could be Britain’s first female chancellor, has named three women on whose shoulders she would stand

The Guardian - UK

In Scotland, support grows for Labour as SNP’s dominance looks set to fade

Although independence remains a popular idea, Labour is viewed by many as the strongest party to oust the Conservatives.

Al Jazeera

Another election, another round of Nigel Farage hype, with no lessons learned

Nigel Farage, a man who has never been elected to the House of Commons despite years of trying, has again been allowed to set the agenda in the UK.

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Has Reform really overtaken the Tories in the polls? And does that mean it could beat them on July 4?

A YouGov poll has put Reform UK ahead of the Conservatives for the first time. After a terrible few weeks of election campaigning, the Tories are on 18% while Reform has edged ahead to 19%. The same poll gave Labour 37% and the Liberal Democrats 14%.

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Labour plans House of Lords age limit and immediate end to hereditary peers – constitutional reform proposals explained

The Labour party has committed to immediately legislating to remove hereditary peers from the House of Lords if elected to government. It will also impose retirement on members of the House of Lords at the age of 80.

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Rishi Sunak aide’s £100 bet on election date: what are the rules?

Craig Williams, who is standing to be Conservative MP, is subject of an inquiry. These are the key issues at stake

The Guardian - UK

Disgraced Keith Vaz expelled from Labour as he stands for One Leicester party

Exclusive: Vaz to run in Leicester East, infuriating Labour candidates who have campaigned for his eviction for years

The Guardian - UK

The seven times Farage tried and failed to become an MP

Reform UK leader Farage will attempt to get a seat in the House of Commons for the eighth time

The Independent UK

Sunak and Starmer clash in fiery first debate of UK general election

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and opposition Labour Party leader Keir Starmer sparred Tuesday over tax, the cost of living and the country’s creaking health system in an inconclusive televised debate ahead of a July 4 election expected to make one of them the country's next leader.

France 24

Why Clacton is the perfect place for Farage to launch his bid to eclipse the Tories

He failed seven times to enter the House of Commons, but this time Nigel Farage may have found the perfect place from which to launch the next chapter in his political career, says David Maddox

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SNP will force vote on Palestinian statehood, John Swinney tells Tories and Labour

FIRST Minister John Swinney has written to Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer to demand they commit to recognise the state of Palestine ...

The Independent UK

UK Parliament to break up ahead of election day with pomp, ceremony and hard-nosed politics

Britain’s lawmakers will leave Parliament on Friday for the last time before an election is held in six weeks

The National (Scotland)

'Oh dear': Commons Deputy Speaker mocks Scottish independence bill

A DEPUTY Speaker of the House Commons joked about a Scottish independence bill as it was introduced in the House of Commons.

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Parliament was in the middle of discussing some very important laws before the election was called – what happens to them now?

Just hours before Rishi Sunak fired the starting gun for the 2024 general election, the House of Commons was in full flow, listening to treasury minister Bim Afolami announce that inflation has fallen, and firing questions at the prime minister.

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Al Jazeera

Rishi Sunak names July 4 for UK general election: What’s next?

Sunak announced general election which could signal an end to his Conservative Party’s 14 years of power in the UK.

The Guardian - UK

I spoke to MPs about their mental health. What I found should shock us all

What is plaguing our politicians? Disappointment, a culture of silence – and the fallout from Brexit, says Jennifer Nadel of Compassion in Politics

The Guardian - UK

Our democracy desperately needs a reset – and, behind the scenes, that’s the plan

This is a seismic moment as Westminster prepares for power to pass from one party to another, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

The Guardian - UK

MPs arrested for sexual offences face bans from parliamentary estate

Labour and Conservatives say ‘long overdue’ measures ‘improve standards of behaviour and safeguarding’

The Guardian - UK

The controversies of Natalie Elphicke, the MP who has defected to Labour

Dover MP, who claimed her now former husband’s seat in 2019, has been criticised in the past by Labour

The Guardian - UK

‘Compassion for the most vulnerable’: bishop thanks protesters who blocked asylum coaches

Bishop of Dover praised people who stopped removal of men from Margate to Bibby Stockholm barge

The Guardian - US

Canada: bitter clash in parliament over Trudeau ‘wacko’ jibe

Parliamentary questions dominated by partisan attacks a day after Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre ejected from chamber

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