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Exclusive: 110 seats have had Reform candidates dropped or swapped since January, leaving the party racing meet a pledge to field a full slate in July

Tories say stick to the plan, Labour wants change and Lib Dems, SNP, Greens and Reform fight for attention

Rishi Sunak’s very first move as Prime Minister was to baffle. Why had this sensible technocrat appointed a loon like Suella Braverman? Many baffling moments followed — Rwanda, the war on woke, tax cuts that ran in the face of everything he had stood for as chancellor. So a snap…

Rishi Sunak suffered a bruising first day of campaigning with a painful policy admission, MPs quitting, gaffes and the worst polling yet

Pollster predicts Tories are on course to get less than 100 seats unless Sunak can turn party fortunes around

Not content with treating workers at a distribution centre as if they were half-wits, the PM relied on Tory plants to lob easy questions as if no one would notice

Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer will dominate the headlines, but The Independent looks at how smaller parties the Lib Dems and Reform UK might fare

It is testament to Nigel Farage's political entrepreneurism that the former Ukip leader can credibly claim to be one of the most influential British politicians of the last century, despite never being a Member of Parliament. Not that it has been for the want of trying. Farage stood seven times,…

Despite Nigel Farage not standing for a seat in the election, his successor Richard Tice said the arch-Brexiteer ‘will be everywhere’ during the campaign

Party’s honorary president says he had ‘thought long and hard’ about whether to stand in the poll on July 4 and it was ‘not the right time’

The former Ukip leader said he has decided to help with Donald Trump’s re-election bid in the US instead