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    Northern Ireland politicians in general election TV debate – live

  • A still from covert footage of Andrew Parker, standing outside talking to someone while wearing a Reform UK rosette

    Reform UK activist filmed making racist comments about Rishi Sunak

    Andrew Parker, who is canvassing in Clacton, also described Islam as ‘a cult’ and suggested asylum seekers should be shot
  • Wes Streeting gesturing while sitting in a room

    Managers who silence whistleblowers ‘will never work in NHS again’, vows Streeting

    Exclusive: Shadow health secretary discusses plans for waiting lists and patient safety if Labour wins election
  • BrewDog sacks Asian woman after reaction to EDL members meeting in bar

  • Sunak cites ‘confidential’ inquiry as he refuses to answer questions over aide and election date bet – as it happened

  • Labour to seek ‘stable position’ with Europe rather than reopen Brexit debate

  • Ex-Fujitsu engineer apologises at Post Office inquiry over ‘bandwagon’ claim

  • Ben Jennings on Rishi Sunak’s failure to convince at the final leaders’ debate – cartoon

  • Rough sleeping in London hits highest level in a decade

  • Man on trial posed ‘imminent threat’ to Holly Willoughby, US officer tells jury

  • 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

  • Frank Hester

    Companies linked to Tory donors given £8.4bn in public contracts since 2016

    • Number of UK income tax payers leaps by 4.4m in three years due to threshold freeze

    • ‘They’re best for me’: New Forest voters keep faith with the Tories

    • Reform UK drops candidate revealed to have been BNP member

    • ‘At least’ seven Met officers under investigation over general election bets

    • Starmer says people would not be sent back to Afghanistan under returns policy

    • Jeremy Corbyn in final push to keep seat amid voter confusion in Islington North

Analysis and explainers

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  • Lib Dem and Conservative banners on a residential street

    Labour and Lib Dem tactical voting plans will have big impact on Tory seats

  • Keir Starmer with presenter Mishal Husain and Rishi Sunak

    Five things we learned from the final Sunak-Starmer debate before polling day

  • A voter places their voting paper in a large black ballot box

    Who’s who of the people linked to the general election betting scandal

  • Vernon Kay sat in a radio studio with a cake in front of him

    Vernon Kay uses CDs to keep BBC Radio 2 show going after technical issue

  • An art handler wearing white gloves holds up the framed cover art, which shows Harry standing in front of a train before heading to Hogwarts

    Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone artwork sells for record £1.5m

    Watercolour drawing for first book’s cover becomes most expensive item from the series ever sold at auction
  • Emily Eavis bends down with her back to camera as two security guards in hi-vis open gates

    Glastonbury opens its gates as UK temperatures soar to 30C

    Organiser Emily Eavis says it is ‘best moment of the year’, as visitors are sprayed with water while they set up camp
  • Planned Universal theme park in Bedfordshire to ‘bring £50bn to UK economy’

  • Shania Twain: I want to arrive for Glastonbury set on a horse

  • Taylor Swift donation enables Cardiff food bank to buy lorry full of supplies

  • Stonehenge likely to be put on world heritage danger list over tunnel plan

  • OpenAI logo is seen on a mobile phone in front of a computer screen displaying output from ChatGPT

    Researchers fool university markers with AI-generated exam papers

  • illustration composite with children looking at a teacher in front of a whiteboard and an apprentice

    Labour wants to create opportunities for all. Can its education pledges narrow the divide?

  • Blurred image of pupils walking along school corridor

    Poorer high-ability UK children fall behind peers at school from age of 11

  • Maggie Aderin-Pocock smiles as she sits between two pupils at a table

    ‘It opens eyes’: How one UK school has welcomed and learned from refugees

  • From left: Helen Skelton, Kate Rasmussen and Sophie Blake all standing and smiling against blue backdrop

    ‘I want a choice’: terminally ill women urge early Commons vote on assisted dying

  • People in orange BMA hats hold a sign reading 'A Tory a day drives doctors away'.

    ‘We feel dispirited’: striking junior doctors worn down but determined to fight on

    • Kevin Hollinrake walking in London with activists holding anti-Tory placards behind him

      Tory business minister bet on Conservatives winning election

    • Meadow grass flowers © Maria Nunzia @Varvera

      Country diary: The grass is up – and so is the pollen count

    • A woman brushing her teeth

      Cost of toothpaste can double through the year in UK, study finds

Multimedia

  • Keir Starmer in shirtsleeves standing on the doorstep of a house in North Yorkshire with Luke Charter, Labour's parliamentary candidate for York Outer

    Election Extra: will undecided voters be decisive? – podcast

  • Rows of military police in riot helmets line up in front of demonstrators in Bolivia

    Elections, strikes and wildfires: photos of the day – Thursday

    • Keir Starmer says he would treat trans people with ‘dignity and respect’ – video

    • The high street of Leigh with a few people wandering past the pawnbrokers and bank branch

      Returning to Leigh: can Labour rebuild the red wall? – podcast

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