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HOLYROOD authorities are investigating the SNP over allegedly inappropriate use of public money to fund the party’s election campaign.

The outgoing Housing Secretary said the Conservatives will now aim to eliminate rough sleeping in the next Parliament

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

Exclusive: The posts targetting Dawn Butler have been reported to police as a campaign is launched to address abuse aimed at Black women in politics

In a somewhat unusual tactic for a governing party seeking re-election, senior Conservative figures have all but conceded defeat two weeks before polling day. Instead of campaigning on their plans for another term in government, cabinet ministers, from the prime minister down, have taken to warning of the dangers of…

As they always said would happen, the polls began to narrow. Keir Starmer came unstuck on questions around taxation. The Rwanda scheme was finally up and running by late May. The Bank of England cut interest rates in mid-June. Nigel Farage decided to stay out of the campaign. And the…

With Nigel Farage’s surprise return to frontline politics and Reform surging in the polls, there is increasingly fevered speculation as to how much damage Reform will do to the Conservatives in the election, and whether they will even overtake the Tories in terms of vote share.

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

Warnings of a looming apocalypse tell us more about Britain than Labour’s modest plan to make education slightly less unequal, says English teacher Lola Okolosie