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Evening Standard analysis of key seats in London for the July 4 General Election

Grant Shapps is running. The Tory MP has held what seems like every ministerial post possible and is famous in Westminster for his command of spreadsheets and data – in other words, for tracking the views and intentions of his fellow Tory MPs. He is ready for the battle ahead.

In the two weeks since I announced I would be standing as a candidate, we have electrified the debate about Britain’s future and breathed life into this zombie General Election campaign.

The group Best for Britain has launched its guide on how to vote to try to oust the Tories. We look at what tactical voting involves

Former home secretary is seen performing a swaggering dance to Fedde Le Grand and Ida Corr’s 2006 hit ‘Let Me Think About It’ in TikTok clip

There lies a contradiction at the heart of Labour’s diagnosis of what ails Britain. On the one hand, a nation afflicted by decaying public services, rising homelessness and faltering local government finances. On the other, “working people” (a deliberately undefined term) will not have to pay more. If this is…

Senior Tories such as Liz Truss and Jeremy Hunt could be for chop as well as once safe seats such as Maidenhead

It’s finally Rachel Reeves’s week after a lot of Keir-first communications from Labour.

The number of children affected by the two-child benefit cap will rise by a third over the next five years, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has…

SNP leader John Swinney is expected to say that the SNP is the only major party with a “truly left-of-centre manifesto” in a speech at a…

With less than three weeks to go, polls continue to show the Tories facing electoral wipeout