Sky News' deputy political editor Sam Coates and Politico's Jack Blanchard are here with their guide to the election day ahead.
This is day 14 of the campaign. Jack and Sam discuss last night's leaders' TV debate in Salford, the upcoming 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings, and Welsh First Minister Vaughan Gething facing a motion of no confidence.
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Grandfather Robert Blackstock, a retired engineer from Nottinghamshire, became the “Brenda from Bristol” of this election campaign when he asked Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer during Wednesday night’s TV debate: “Are you two really the best we’ve got to be the next prime minister of our great country?”
It was finally Nigel Farage’s time to appear before a BBC Question Time audience this evening, more than a week after Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer had theirs. The Reform UK leader took the podium in the same hour as a Green Party representative, Adrian Ramsay. Yet only one of these men has excited reaction from our writers.
Labour’s vote share has fallen to its lowest level in more than two years ahead of the general election, new polling shows.
ISW's conflict experts warned that the West must "challenge Putin's belief that he can gradually subsume Ukraine."
"What happens if the sun isn’t shining while you’re up in the air?” the former president asked at a rally in Virginia.
Until now, Sir Keir Starmer has carefully hidden the Labour Party’s radical, hard-Left agenda from the public. But on the brink of the largest majority in nearly a century, his mask has slipped.
All of a sudden, the US Air Force is considering cancelling a multibillion-dollar effort to develop a new stealth fighter. Citing the high cost of the so-called “Next-Generation Air Dominance” programme and the competing demands of other projects, USAF leaders have warned they may have no choice but to cancel NGAD – and find other ways of winning control of the air in future wars.
Now might be a good time for Dr Jill Biden, the First Lady, to have a rummage around in the back of the wardrobe for one particular item of clothing. When Joe Biden opted against running for president in 2004, his decision was underlined by his wife’s decision to wear a halter top with the word “NO” scrawled on her stomach.
On Friday afternoon, in the aftermath of President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate against Donald Trump, private murmurs and public calls for an “intervention” ricocheted through Democratic circles. But then a hold-up emerged.Some 17 hours after Biden botched his big debate moment, his former boss came to the rescue.For many high-ranking Democrats, a single tweet from former President Barack Obama appeared to nix any chance of the 44th president meeting with the 46th and urging him to drop out.Rea
Hezbollah may be using Cyprus as a "stand-in" to threaten a nearby NATO country, a regional expert said.
'I was born and bred here... I've never known the place be as big of a dump as it is'
In France, politics is happening at a ferocious pace.
The “nein”, “non” or just a plain old “no way” has already been uttered. As France prepares for its most significant election in at least a decade, with its leading parties committed to increasing the government’s already lavish spending, Christian Lindner, the German finance minister, has made one point clear: France is not going to get a bailout, and certainly not from its close neighbours.
The pair clashed over whether or not Liz Truss caused of the jump in inflation.
Donald Trump’s allies were like Cheshire cats as they celebrated in the spin room backstage at the TV debate in Atlanta on Thursday night.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal also announces that military pledges outlined in 20 security agreements Kyiv has signed with its allies total $60 billion annually for the next four years
Bette Midler and Barbra Streisand led the celebrity reactions to this week's Trump-Biden debate. The divas, and others, took to their social media accounts to express their views after the first presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden ahead of this year's election. "All my friends are taking their blood pressure medicine now, preparing for the debate," Bette, 78, wrote on X/Twitter, ahead of the face-off. "I wonder how many TV screens are going to be broken tonight?" As the televi
Russia should start producing previously banned midrange missiles, President Vladimir Putin said Friday, as Moscow warned the United States that drone reconnaissance flights over the Black Sea risked a "direct" military clash.The United States routinely carries out drone flights over the Black Sea, which it says are conducted in neutral airspace and in accordance with international law.
We think we have problems in the UK with the apparent lack of statesmen or women to run this country, but Joe Biden’s abject performance last night in the “debate” with Donald Trump is a worry not just for the US and the UK but the whole planet. What on earth will Vladimir Putin and the other evil tyrants around the globe be making of the leader of the only global superpower? The US president struggled to string a sentence together despite days of preparation, and seems to want the golf course r
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