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Election Edition

Every weekday at 5pm, Archie Bland will guide you through the twists and turns of the general election with a fast and funny briefing direct to your inbox. Starting 3 June

5 July 2024

  • Keir and Victoria Starmer enter Downing Street.

    A Labour landslide, Tory turmoil and Green shoots. What a night

    In today’s newsletter: Whether it was a new government, the success of independents, or a farewell to Truss, in the end this election had something for everyone

4 July 2024

  • The exit poll comes through at 10pm, projecting a Labour majority of 170.

    Labour landslide as Tories on course for historic defeat – and Reform surge: your guide to the night ahead

    In today’s newsletter: As the exit poll lands, here’s how election night will play out hour by hour

3 July 2024

  • Rishi Sunak walks back into 10 Downing Street after calling an election on 22 May.

    Campaign catchup: 20 election season awards, and one really weird favourite food

    In today’s newsletter: Campaigning is over, so we round up six weeks of terrible memes, tetchy politicians and downright dodgy graphs

2 July 2024

  • Ed Davey, Rishi Sunak, Keir Starmer, Carla Denyer and Nigel Farage.

    Campaign catchup: Letters from the future, five Ed Stones, and a massive McDonald’s

    In today’s newsletter: With the polls almost upon us, it’s time for every party leader to make their final plea to voters – here’s what each one is saying

1 July 2024

  • Kemi Badenoch.

    Campaign catchup: Sunak’s successor, Farage’s bad banner, and liquid Davey

    In today’s newsletter: With the Conservatives seemingly accepting defeat in Thursday’s general election, likely next leaders are already on the move

28 June 2024

  • Nigel Farage at Reform UK’s office in Clacton-on-Sea.

    Campaign catchup: Farage fans, electoral fuel and a curiously sourced ‘scoop’

    In today’s newsletter: What a spate of offensive comments from volunteers and candidates reveal about the Reform UK agenda – and how they might affect its support

27 June 2024

  • Robert Blackstock asked the question of the night in yesterday’s debate.

    Campaign catchup: Grumpy voters, a pottery throwdown, and a mishearing for the ages

    In today’s newsletter: The final leaders’ debate is a bad-tempered affair echoing the mood for those out canvassing, although one doorstep interaction gives the best quote of election so far

26 June 2024

  • Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer at ITV’s first election debate, hosted by ITV’s Julie Etchingham.

    Campaign catchup: Disappointment television, a bad bet, and a terrible Tory typo

    In today’s newsletter: Tonight Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak engage in yet another televised debate – but have we reached peak political TV?

25 June 2024

  • Rishi Sunak delivers a speech at a campaign event on Monday.

    Campaign catchup: Tories dropped, sewage dumped, Bridgerton ruined

    In today’s newsletter: The Conservatives have withdrawn their support for Craig Williams and Laura Saunders over allegations of suspicious betting on a July election – but why did it take so long?

24 June 2024

  • A Reform UK hat is placed on a chair before a campaign speech by party leader Nigel Farage on June 24, 2024 in Maidstone, England.

    Campaign catchup: Farage edgelording, Starmer misremembering, and who’s behind Binface?

    In today’s newsletter: The Reform leader keeps wheeling out his Ukraine-sceptic, Russia-curious foreign affairs takes – but why?

21 June 2024

  • Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer and shadow chancellor, Rachel Reeves face questions from journalists during a visit to Morrisons in Swindon.

    Campaign catchup: Tax evasions, party poopers, and a political chicken

    In today’s newsletter: Some uncertainty remains on how Labour will pay for the spending it plans in government – but new Guardian reporting gives new insight

20 June 2024

  • Laura Saunders on October 25, 2023.

    Campaign catchup: 24 hours of Tory omnishambles, Labour housing, and Lib Dem melon drama

    In today’s newsletter: A frantic 24 hours for the party sees their campaign going from bad to worse – here’s what happened

19 June 2024

  • SNP leader John Swinney at the party’s manifesto launch in Edinburgh.

    Campaign catchup: The SNP’s strained strategy, Johnson’s jaunt, and a dodgy dossier

    In today’s newsletter: Scotland’s governing party launched its manifesto on Wednesday – but a sense of decay lingers over the SNP

18 June 2024

  • Rishi Sunak during a visit to Cambridge Rugby Club.

    Campaign catchup: Tories tanking, Starmer soccering, vetters not vetting

    In today’s newsletter: A new poll for the Guardian reveals the party is on course to win only 115 seats – is there a way back?

17 June 2024

  • The Reform party manifesto launch.

    Campaign catchup: Farage’s dodgy sums, tactical voting, and a Lib Dem showpony

    In today’s newsletter: The rightwing party launched its manifesto today – but does any of it add up?

14 June 2024

  • Reform’s Nigel Farage arrives at a campaign event.

    Campaign catchup: Farage crossover, Swinney knee-shower, Curtice rhubarb-grower

    In today’s newsletter: What a poll showing Reform UK ahead of the Tories means – and what it doesn’t

13 June 2024

  • Keir Starmer unveiling the Labour manifesto in Manchester.

    Campaign catchup: A rabbit-free manifesto, a So Solid revival, and David Cameron’s mum

    In today’s newsletter: Why Labour is making a virtue of a policy programme bereft of new ideas

12 June 2024

  • Grant Shapps at Tuesday’s Conservative manifesto launch.

    Campaign catchup: Defeatist Tories, cautious Greens, and the leader who really loves cars

    In today’s newsletter: Explaining the strategy behind Grant Shapps’ warning of a Labour ‘supermajority’

11 June 2024

  • Rishi Sunak launches his party’s manifesto.

    Campaign catchup: Conservative manifesto; Farage pelted again; Green candidate defects

    In today’s newsletter: Breaking down what was in the Tory manifesto, more items lobbed at the Reform leader, and a surprising defection in Scotland

10 June 2024

  • Alternative for Germany (AfD) right-wing political party co-chairman Tino Chrupalla (R) and Alternative for Germany (AfD) right-wing political party deputy chairwoman Alice Weidel (L) celebrate.

    Campaign catchup: Europe’s right ascends, Lib Dems jump first, ReformCon cosy up

    In today’s newsletter: What swings toward the right in Germany, France, Belgium and beyond might mean for the UK election
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