Have your say on the top general election issues in Hull & East Riding and suggest questions for candidates

Ivan Morris Poxton

16 June 2024 at 9:57 am·2-min read

Ennerdale Leisure Centre, Hull, a polling station in the past — -Credit: (Image: Katie Pugh)

The countdown is on as general election polling day on July 4 draws ever closer.

Hull Live wants to hear from readers what the key issues are for you at this election. And what questions you would like to ask candidates.

Redrawn boundaries mean the constituencies up for election this time around are a different make-up from December 2019. East Riding has Beverley and Holderness, Bridlington and the Wolds, and Goole and Pocklington.

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Covering Hull and its environs, some of which are in East Riding Council area, are Hull East, Hull North, and Hull West and Haltemprice. A whopping 42 candidates are standing in Hull and East Riding - an average of seven per seat. In Hull North, there are nine different candidates.

Although under different boundaries, the last election saw Labour win Hull's then three seats and the Conservatives take East Riding's constituencies. But the political picture has changed significantly since then, including the recent rise of Reform, who are standing in all of Hull and East Riding's constituencies.

What are the key issues for Hull and East Riding people as polling day approaches, and the deadline to register to vote by midnight on Tuesday June 18 nears? Take part in our poll below, or click here if unable to access via the link below, and pick up to three top issues. There are thirteen listed categories, including an 'Other' box to allow for other topics, or more specific issues.

Meanwhile, if you had the chance to ask all the candidates in your constituency a question to help make up your mind, what would it be? Take part in our survey below, or click here if unable to access it, and the suggestions collated may be put to candidates by Hull Live.

It has already been an eventful election campaign nationally, from the TV debates and Nigel Farage's decision to take over Reform UK's leadership, to Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey's series of stunts to highlight topics his party are campaigning on.

Who knows what the remaining weeks will hold.

The Telegraph
Sunak may have made the biggest electoral mistake in British history
When the history of this election campaign comes to be written, one question will perplex the compilers more than any other: why now? The Tory officials and police officers being investigated for alleged gambling law infractions by betting on a snap contest in July will have secured very good odds for the simple reason that no one was expecting it.
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The Tories have abandoned the one thing that made them electable
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HuffPost
'Look At The Evidence': Karl Rove Drops Bad News For Trump Live On Fox News
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The Independent
Shock new poll confirms Reform lead over Tories despite Farage’s Putin comments
Nigel Farage’s comments about Putin and Ukraine do not appear to have dented Reform’s popularity according to a major new poll of 10,000 voters
The Telegraph
Brace yourself for Keir Starmer’s puritan war on life’s pleasures
This is how the Conservative world ends, not with a bang but a flutter. The Tories in office were gamblers, shaggers, nutters and clowns, but at least they were funny – and their wrist too limp to grasp power entirely. Now the cavaliers are leaving the stage; here come the roundheads. Brace yourselves for a war on joy.
The Telegraph
Will voting Reform put Labour in power? Check your postcode
“A vote for Reform is a vote for Labour.”
HuffPost UK
Tories Heading For Electoral Wipeout As New Poll Predicts 250-Seat Labour Majority
And the final result could be even worse for the Conservatives.
The Telegraph
Russia is crumbling from within
On Sunday evening, the North Caucasus region of Dagestan was rocked by a series of brutal terrorist attacks. Gunmen opened fire in a synagogue in Derbent, graphically slit the throat of Russian Orthodox priest Father Nikolay, and attacked Jewish and Christian houses of worship in Dagestan’s largest city Makhachkala. These brutal crimes claimed the lives of at least 15 people, including police officers.
HuffPost
'Truly Shocking': Prankster Reveals Trump Rally Moment That 'Knocked Me Over'
Jason Selvig of The Good Liars said he had never seen this before at one of the former president's rallies.
HuffPost
What Republicans Are Hoping Trump Doesn't Do During His Debate With Joe Biden
Trump's allies on Capitol Hill are urging him to stick to policy and draw a contrast between Biden's handling of the economy and Trump's tenure in office.
Business Insider
A Russian soldier's killing of a wounded comrade highlights the 'brutal culture' rampant inside Russia's military, war analysts say
Experts called out the callous behavior within the Russian armed forces after drone footage showed a soldier shooting a wounded comrade.
Yahoo News UK
Who will you vote for in the general election? Tell us what you think
With just over a week to go until the general election, have you made your mind up yet?
HuffPost
Ex-Aide Predicts Future Of Donald And Melania Trump's Relationship
Stephanie Winston Wolkoff weighed in on the former first lady's absence from the campaign trail.
Associated Press
Trump has spent months painting Biden as incompetent. Now he's changing his tone before the debate
After months of casting President Joe Biden as a shell of a man incapable of putting two sentences together, Donald Trump has changed his tune days before their first debate. The changed rhetoric marks a dramatic shift from how Trump typically describes the man he will face in a rematch this November. At his rallies and in speeches, Trump typically casts the Democratic incumbent as a “low-IQ individual” who is “the worst, most incompetent, and most corrupt president” in the nation’s history, and often imitates Biden appearing lost on stage.
The Telegraph
‘Their manifesto is like a wishlist’: How Reform seduced Gen Z
Nathan Hobbs has been arguing with his sister about politics lately. She is 22, has a progressive outlook and, like most young voters, is likely to vote either Labour or Liberal Democrat at the General Election. Nathan, a 19-year-old student, disagrees with her and doesn’t fit the mould of much of his peer group either. He is planning to vote Reform UK on July 4. “There’s a real split [between us],” he says of the siblings’ divergence in political opinion. “She dislikes Nigel Farage.”
Associated Press
Iran's supreme leader warns sole reformist in presidential race, while calling for 'maximum' turnout
Iran's supreme leader issued a thinly veiled warning Tuesday to the sole reformist candidate in the country's upcoming presidential election, saying anyone who believes “all ways to progress” come from the United States shouldn't be supported. While often speaking in parables like many Iranian politicians, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei appeared to directly undercut the candidacy of 69-year-old heart surgeon Masoud Pezeshkian, who has aligned himself with officials from the administration of former President Hassan Rouhani. Rouhani helped reach Iran's 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, an accord Pezeshkian has fully embraced in contrast with his five hard-line opponents, who want an agreement fully on Iran's terms.
The Telegraph
For intolerant Farage supporters, grown-up debate has clearly become a farce
Much heartened by the onslaught of criticism I’ve been receiving from Telegraph readers, I am returning to the subject of one of Clacton’s parliamentary candidates. Two weeks ago I got myself into a vat of boiling oil for saying we should turn our heads to the wall from Mr Farage’s sort of bitter and divisive populism. My column was greeted with such outrage and affront that I knew I was onto something.
The Telegraph
Grieving families risk being hit with £65,000 ‘death duty’ under Labour
Grieving families could lose an extra £65,000 if Labour brings in a pensions death duty, analysis shows.
The Daily Beast
Judge Aileen Cannon Dresses Down Trump Prosecutor: ‘I Don’t Appreciate Your Tone’
There was tension in U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon’s courtroom on Monday afternoon as the controversial jurist—already facing criticism that she is in the tank for Donald Trump, who appointed her to the bench during his single term in the White House—snapped at one of the government attorneys prosecuting Trump for unlawfully hoarding classified documents after leaving office.The exchange occurred during a hearing at the federal courthouse in Fort Pierce, Florida, with prosecutors arguing for
The Guardian
HMRC is threatening my terminally ill father with debt collectors
He is 92 and doesn’t actually owe the money, but there is nothing he can do to stop the tax demands coming

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