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A fundraiser last week suggests that Rishi Sunak may have given up on winning the election

Scandal-ridden congresswoman has Trump’s backing in her bid to win a district across the state from her current seat

The conservative playbook Project 2025 — which many believe lays out policy for a second Trump term — makes clear that Republicans intend to start using the rarely-invoked law again

A gun-themed restaurant helped Republican firebrand Rep. Lauren Boebert to fame. At the unrelated Shooters in the new district she hopes to win – where she’s running as a carpetbagger – there hasn’t been the same level of Boebert talk or tourism ... yet. Sheila Flynn reports from Byers in…

The Canadian star of ‘Klute’, ‘M*A*S*H*’, ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers’ and ‘The Hunger Games’ – who has died at the age of 88 – leaves behind a legacy of cinematic classics and progressive politics, writes Kevin E G Perry

The freshman Democrat from Texas tells Eric Garcia about how her ‘bleach blonde bad-built butch body’ remarks came about and why the Oversight Committee wasn’t her first choice

Sunak is on the ropes as one poll puts Reform ahead of the Tories and a second sees gap close again

Akhmed Yakoob has also spoken out in support of misogynistic influencer Andrew Tate

The Independent’s Archie Mitchell joined Gove for a ride on the campaign trail but came away with more questions than answers