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General election
2024

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4 July 2024

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Highlights

  • PollTracker trail v2

    UK opinion polls tracker
    Labour ahead as general election campaigning continues

  • Gabby Hinsliff (left), John Crace (top left), Zoe Williams (centre), Jonathan Freedland (top right), Hugh Muir (right)

    Events
    Guardian Newsroom: Election results special

  • Rishi Sunak will contest the general election on 4 July.

    Explainer
    What you need to know about the 4 July UK general election

  • Illustration of changing constituencies in the UK

    Constituency tracker
    New boundary map for UK general election – and how changes may affect you

Latest news

  • James Cleverly smiles while standing in a car workshop

    Live
    UK general election live: Starmer will try to set up ‘permanent Labour government’ if he wins, James Cleverly claims

    Home secretary tells BBC that Labour is ‘willing to distort the British political system’ as Rishi Sunak campaigns in Staffordshire
  • Richard Meddings poses for a photograph

    Labour planning to replace NHS England chair with party loyalist

  • Richard Tice stands on stage with his arms outstretched next to Nigel Farage

    At least 30 Reform candidates have cast doubt on human-induced global heating

  • John Swinney speaks at a political conference

    Election fight between Labour and SNP is still on, says John Swinney

  • Sarwar and Starmer clapping

    Parties keen to capitalise on SNP woes in Scotland, but for different reasons

  • Rishi Sunak.

    Sunak to warn Labour would use landslide to shift politics to the left

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In depth

  • Britain's shadow foreign secretary David Lammy, photographed in Kyiv, Ukraine, on 13 May.

    David Lammy must signal how the UK will reconnect with the world

  • tories-charts-housing

    Housing: how 14 years of Tory rule have changed Britain – in charts

    • People living in a tent sit and chat next to a government "Levelling Up' poster in Boston, England

      Lacking hope, desperate for change: the UK towns devastated by Tory rule

    • A flag seen at the Pyramid Stage on Sunday at Glastonbury.

      ‘The Tories don’t care about you!’ The 2024 election – as seen from Glastonbury

    • From left: the Lib Dems’ Ed Davey, the Conservatives’ Rishi Sunak, Labour’s Keir Starmer, the Greens’ Carla Denyer and Reform leader Nigel Farage

      Ten things to watch as the UK general election results roll in

Marina Hyde’s campaign trail

  • Rishi Sunak speaks at the D-Day 80th anniversary event in Normandy; soldiers in dress uniform are seen standing behind him.

    Sunak continues his fighting talk. At this stage it’s more of a surrender message

  • Mel Stride leaving a building

    And it’s over to Mel Stride. Again. Where are all the other Tories? Ladbrokes?

    The work and pensions secretary’s colleagues must be trapped under something heavy because no one but Stride is pulling their weight
  • Composite of headshots of Tony Lee and Laura Saunders

    Are Tories bent on scoring own goals? Alleged election betting shows real dedication

    Tory party campaign director’s leave of absence over alleged bet hands Labour the perfect metaphor

Path to power

  • Waveney Valley composite illustration

    Waveney Valley ought to be a Tory heartland. Could angry voters turn it Green?

  • Hitchin path to power composite illustration

    ‘Normal politics won’t stop it’: housing crisis dominates election in Hitchin

    Gentrification is pricing out people from Hertfordshire town where voters are divided over plans to build new homes
  • Godalming and Ash illustration

    ‘I hope he loses’: Jeremy Hunt facing uphill battle in Godalming as voters long for change

    Many describe Hunt as a good local MP but some are looking to tactical voting to punish the Conservatives

Reality check

  • Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer on the BBC prime ministerial debate.

    Is there truth in Rishi Sunak’s net zero attack on Labour?

  • Keir Starmer, John Swinney, Rishi Sunak and Ed Davey on s BBC Question Time Leaders' Special in York, England.

    The party leaders on NHS waiting lists and immigration targets

    Keir Starmer, John Swinney, Rishi Sunak and Ed Davey took questions from the public on Thursday. We examine their claims on hospital backlogs, Lib Dem policies and Brexit
  • Richard Tice and Nigel Farage at the manifesto launch

    Do Reform UK’s election claims on tax, immigration and environment add up?

    From economy to transport, health to housing, and immigration – how do the main pledges in party’s ‘contract’ with electorate stack up?

Opinion

  • Nesrine Malik

    The tragic parable of Rishi Sunak: driven by success at all costs, then undone by his own myth-making

    Nesrine Malik
  • Sinn Féin’s Michelle O'Neill, Northern Ireland’s first minister, with the party’s former president Gerry Adams.

    The Guardian view on the general election in Northern Ireland: time for London to re-engage

    • John Crace

      Dim Dowden is not the right Tory frontman to energise flatlining campaign

      John Crace
    • John Harris

      Prepare for the toppling of private school politics – and a cultural change within Westminster

      John Harris
    • Larry Elliott

      Better economic news will not stop Tories from suffering their biggest ever defeat

      Larry Elliott

Multimedia

  • Keir Starmer

    Politics Weekly Westminster: The final week of campaigning - podcast

  • Boris Johnson standing in front of the Vote Leave bus during the EU referendum campaign with a fellow campaigner

    The 14 years that broke Britain, part 2 - podcast

  • Andrew Parker wearing Reform rosette

    Election Extra: Reform UK activist’s racist ‘pub talk’ – podcast

  • Sunak has responded to a racial slur made about him by a Reform canvasser who was secretly filmed describing him as 'fucking [P-word]'

    1:03

    Rishi Sunak says Reform activist's racial slur 'too important not to call out' – video

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