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THE SNP are facing criticism after a candidate suggested the party would keep the party’s stance against new oil and gas licences – despite a…

The prime minister’s claim that Labour would raise taxes by this enormous amount has been roundly disproven. But, as with the Leave campaign’s spurious claims, this lie has legs, writes Zoe Williams

Lee Roberts says his comments were ‘not intended to give any offence’

Polls had barely closed for the European elections when President Emmanuel Macron called voters back to the ballot box to elect a new French parliament – three years ahead of schedule. What's behind his surprise decision, and what happens next?

Ed Davey knows he’s not going to be forming the next government – it’s best to treat the party’s pitch as a mood board

Having won with Tony Blair in 1997, the Labour frontbencher wants party back in No 10

In the UK’s 2019 general election, regional inequality took centre stage. Conservative candidate Boris Johnson harnessed the widespread pro-Brexit sentiment and capitalised on how the Labour Party had been weakened under Jeremy Corbyn to storm to victory.

In the 2019 general election, Sinn Féin won seven seats in Westminster, one fewer than its main unionist rivals, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP). However, such is the disarray in unionist politics at the moment that Sinn Féin may only need to hold these seven seats to emerge as the…

“Get Brexit done” was the slogan that carried then prime minister Boris Johnson to an 80-seat majority in the 2019 general election. And sure enough, his government did indeed go on to secure the UK’s exit from the European Union.

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

According to analysts, the French president might be trying to test the public — and the far-right’s ability to govern.