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“Stand by for my thoughts on Britain’s future to explode over the publishing world like a much-shaken bottle of champagne.”

When British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced the UK general election outside 10 Downing Street in the pouring rain last month, the ignominy of the moment was compounded by the sound of a protester playing “Things Can Only Get Better” by D:Ream.

Evening Standard analysis of key seats in London for the July 4 General Election

TONY Blair has been criticised after he claimed Scotland not being independent shows devolution has been successful.

Everywhere I go in Britain, people are exhausted. But there’s good reason to believe a Labour government would bring unseen possibilities, says Guardian columnist John Harris

Nigel Farage is back, the Tories are in freefall and everyone’s shouting about tax. If you want to read up on the choices facing voters on 4 July – and better understand how we got here in the first place – Jessie Thompson has your ultimate general election reading guide

A-listers queued up to add showbiz pizzaz before elections. Today, it’s seen as more effective for a member of the public speak out

Sadiq Khan and Sajid Javid's fathers: bus drivers. Theresa May and Gordon Brown's: clergymen. John Major's: a music hall performer. If you knew any of these, congratulations, you are a deeply weird person. In fact, even if you didn't, you are still a little strange because you subscribe to a…

Since the first polls of the official election campaign came out earlier this month, there has been talk of Labour repeating its 1997 landslide.