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  • Wes Streeting arrives at BBC broadcasting house on Sunday 16 June.

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    UK general election live: Wes Streeting urges voters not to ‘give the matches back to the arsonist to finish the job’

  • Armed police officer

    Met police accused of failing to address toxic culture in firearms unit

    Action has been taken in only a tiny percentage of internal misconduct claims against officers since review by peer Louise Casey
  • A HMRC letterhead with various coins and paper currency on to of it

    HMRC has failed to fine a single ‘enabler’ of offshore tax fraud in five years

    Landmark powers to impose huge fines to tackle tax evasion and avoidance are ‘pointless’, figures show

  • Labour sends activists to 13 seats where it fears losing Muslim voters over Gaza

  • Places in council-run children’s homes in England fall by third as private firms take over

  • Labour and Tories would ‘both leave NHS worse off than under austerity’

  • Tories and Labour on course for lowest share of the vote since 1945

  • Surrey police face criticism after using car to ram escaped cow

  • Chris Riddell on how the three main parties are heading towards the election – cartoon

  • ‘Rushed’ deadline for UK digital visas puts millions at risk of losing legal rights

UK politics

  • Sir Ed Davey participates in an assault course at Arena Pursuits outdoor centre in Flimwell, Kent, on 13 June.

    Election diary: a tax on disco music, a levy on punctuation – and VAT terror stalking rural England

  • keir starmer and striped tape saying 'cautious[

    ‘When they get in they will face a terrible reality’: can steady Starmer deliver what he promises?

    • Nigel Farage trying to destroy Tory party, says David Cameron – as it happened

    • ‘We offer the most ambitious change’: Ed Davey vows to push a Labour government for radical action

    • Keir Starmer promises no capital gains tax on sales of homes

    • Number of private school pupils rises despite claims families priced out by Labour’s VAT plan

    • Tory Senedd member under investigation over alleged inflated expenses claims

    • UK anti-abortion campaigners running against MPs who back decriminalisation

Analysis and explainers

  • Rachel Reeves holds the Labour Party election manifesto booklet during its lauch

    Brexit, oil and bombs: The words that have defined UK elections since 1945

  • Keir Starmer standing beside the red Labour election battle bus

    A wobbly left and a wary right could cut the Labour vote with low turnout

  • A headshot of Shawn Seesahai

    Wolverhampton guilty verdicts raise issue of naming child killers

  • an aerial view of the Fawley oil refinery: acres of industrial land with huge circular tanks, pipes and chimneys, stretching to the sea and horizon.

    What each party promises voters in its UK general election manifesto

Culture

  • Clive Myrie in London.

    ‘It’s the front line of being British’: Clive Myrie on hosting BBC election night, and the racism he has endured

  • Tracey Emin photographed in front of one of her pictures; she wears dark clothing which contrasts with the red, pink, white and pale cream of the painting. She stands with her arms folded and looking to one side; her dark hair is tied back.

    Tracey Emin and Imelda Staunton get damehoods in king’s birthday honours

    Others honoured from cultural world include the writer Monica Ali, choreographer Wayne McGregor and children’s laureate Joseph Coelho
  • Bridgerton producer Shonda Rhimes at the London Stock Exchange with the market’s chief executive, Julia Hoggett

    ‘Bridgerton universe’ has added £275m to UK economy, says Netflix

    Producer Shonda Rhimes opens London Stock Exchange as second part of show’s season three launches

  • Russell Brand concerns ‘not adequately addressed’, TV firm investigation finds

  • ‘Absolute outrage’: arts in state schools must be a priority for next government, say theatre leaders

  • Belinda Lee: actor who died in 1961 car crash commemorated in Devon

  • Top-price West End theatre tickets rise by 9% in a year and reach £300

Education

  • Someone holds open the Labour party election manifesto titled Change

    UK election manifestos: views of those in education, health and social care

  • Overhead view of schoolchildren in a playground

    Mental health is main cause of rising absences in England, say headteachers

  • Pupils sit together eating a meal

    Jenga, dodgeball and no phones: a London school’s radical 12-hour day

  • Back of heads of a couple of school children in a classroom with hands raised

    Record 576,000 pupils have special needs support plan in England

Society

  • Michael Mosley reaching towards a glass of red wine on a board containing food and drink in a feature on weight loss

    From cold showers to hot tomatoes: 10 of Michael Mosley’s top health tips

  • Blurred doctor figure operating a Pet scanner with patient on in a modern hospital

    Tory party CEO is director at cancer care firm benefiting from NHS waiting lists

    • A woman pushes a pram alongside as a small child walks beside her along a path through the playing fields. Semi-detached houses are in the near distance

      ‘Knives are fashion statements’: alarm in Wolverhampton at 12-year-old killers

    • Top-down view of a person holding their phone over a lit-up keyboard with two screens in front of them and junk food on the desk

      Female UK election candidates report increased abuse

    • The Grenfell Tower covered in material which has a green heart and the words 'Grenfell - forever in our hearts' on it

      Grenfell and other bereaved families demand next PM act on public inquiries

Multimedia

  • Pupils at All Saints Catholic college laugh as they hold paintbrushes at a long table

    The phone-free, 12-hour school-day experiment

  • Nigel Farage says he never lies and Penny Mordaunt says everyone will increase taxes as laughter engulfs debate

    Laughter in studio as politicians clash in general election TV debate – video

    • Keir Starmer standing at a lectern

      Election Extra: Labour’s plan - podcast

    • David Cameron says Sunak aide who bet on election date was 'foolish' – video

    • Keir Starmer puts wealth creation at heart of Labour manifesto – video

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