In Pictures: Making a splash and hitting the green on the campaign trail
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Party leaders braved the rain as they continued on the General Election campaign trail after the bank holiday weekend.
Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey took a dive into Lake Windermere while paddleboarding as he outlined his party’s plan to tackle the sewage crisis, and Reform UK honorary president Nigel Farage said voting for the Conservative Party is a “wasted vote” as he set out Reform’s campaign agenda in Dover.
Nigel Farage poses for photographers in Dover after announcing Howard Cox as the Reform UK candidate (Gareth Fuller/PA)
SNP leader John Swinney was also under an umbrella when he arrived at the Moon Tell Me Truth Exhibition, a collection of poems from children in Gaza, at the Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh (Andrew Milligan/PA)
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak picked a set of blue bowls for his turn on the green during a visit to Market Bosworth Bowling Club in Leicestershire (Aaron Chown/PA)
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves were dwarfed by a turbine during a visit to Rolls-Royce’s educational training facility in Derby (Stefan Rousseau/PA)
During his trip to the Lake District, Sir Ed Davey said local environmental experts should be represented on water companies’ boards to ensure sewage spills are taken seriously (Peter Byrne/PA)
Foreign Secretary Lord David Cameron speaks to Wilfred Lazarus at The Fed, a social care charity for the Jewish community, in Manchester (Jon Super/PA)
Mr Sunak tried his hand at arts as well as sports when he decorated a plate during a visit to a pottery factory in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire earlier on Tuesday (Aaron Chown/PA)
Club members prepared morning tea ahead of Mr Sunak’s visit to Market Bosworth Bowling Club (Aaron Chown/PA)
Best foot forward for Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross during the official launch of his party’s campaign at the Royal George Hotel in Perth (Andrew Milligan/PA)
The party has published what it plans to do in its manifesto, and it has a number of promises on the benefits system including Universal Credit and PIP
Eamonn Holmes made a savage dig at new prime minister Keir Starmer this morning as he announced the results of the General Election on GB News. The former This Morning star, 64, branded the Labour leader "deadly dull" as he fronted his Vo
Migrants in northern France celebrating Labour’s landslide victory have given Sir Keir Starmer a nickname and have vowed to cross the Channel at the “first chance” they get.
As the defeated parties hold their inevitable election inquests, second only to the bloodletting in Tory circles will be that in the Scottish National Party. Reduced from a party whose proud boast was that it had never lost an election in almost two decades, its angry supporters are claiming that this defeat has all but killed off the cause closest to their hearts: independence for Scotland.
When Joe Biden was inaugurated as the 46th President of the United States in 2021, much was made of his wife Dr Jill Biden becoming the first First Lady ever to hold a salaried outside job.
Former Home Secretary Suella Braverman comments on the Tories' "really bad result" in the election and warns of "big problems" being caused by Keir Starmer on the horizon, including scrapping of the Rwanda scheme. Ms Braverman refused to comment on suggestions that she would run for leader.
You can point to Rishi Sunak’s poor leadership, you can talk about the Tories’ endless pointless errors. However, fundamentally, the Conservatives were ejected from office because NHS waiting lists were too long, the economy was weak, and immigration was uncontrolled.
Who’s to blame? All of us – every Conservative MP in the last Parliament – has a share of the blame for this defeat. For my part, I made life harder for my Party by calling publicly for tougher policy on migration and defence, and so made negative headlines about Tory splits and factions.
The rush to effect “change” in the next 100 days will become irresistible and the need to tear up the Labour manifesto to justify painful taxes on pensions, savings and “wealth” held in assets will play out.
Germany has become a “battleground” in Vladimir Putin’s hybrid war on Nato due to decades of lax security and pro-Russian sympathisers in the east, a senior intelligence chief has warned.
Sir Keir Starmer has appointed a lawyer who has taken cases against British governments as the new Attorney General, in an apparent snub to Emily Thornberry.
Arranging the colourful display of fresh fruit and veg at the front of his shop on July 5, Kristopher Dunlop admitted he was “buzzing” about the election results.
In a Friday interview with ABC News that was intended to steady his reelection campaign following last week’s much-criticized debate performance, President Biden acknowledged his “bad” debate against former President Donald Trump, blaming it on a cold, and reiterated that he has no plans to drop out of the presidential race.
The most significant result from Thursday may not have been the wipe-out of the Conservative Party. It might not have been the rise of Reform UK either, or the strain put on our first past the post electoral system by two distinct blocs of Right-wing voters. Instead, it could turn out to be the return of sectarian politics to England.