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  • Britain's Prime Minister and Conservative Party leader, Rishi Sunak delivers a speech on 24 June 2024 in central London, as part of a Conservative campaign event in the build-up to the UK general election on 4 July 2024. Follow updates live.

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    UK general election live: study finds ‘huge rise in working households pushed into poverty’ under Tories

  • A protest against fast fashion in Berlin, with ‘a mountain’ of textile waste from a second-hand market in Ghana.

    EU-regulated ‘sustainable’ funds invest £14bn in biggest polluters

    Investigation finds funds touting ethical credentials include fast fashion labels and fossil fuel companies
  • FILES-BRITAIN-US-COURT-MEDIA-ASSANGE<br>This screen shot courtesy of Wikileaks X page shows Wikileaks founder Julian Assange walking to board a plane from London Stansted Airport on June 24, 2024. Julian Assange "is free" and has been released from a high-security London prison where he was held for five years, his Wikileaks organisation said June 24, after reaching a US plea deal. The 52-year-old Australian was taken Monday, June 24, from Belmarsh prison to London's Stansted airport, a Wikileaks statement said, from where he boarded a flight to an unnamed destination. (Photo by WikiLeaks / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / HANDOUT / WikiLeaks " - NO MARKETING - NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS (Photo by -/WikiLeaks/AFP via Getty Images)

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    Julian Assange plea deal live: plane thought to be carrying Assange lands in Bangkok, en route to plea deal hearing

    Assange was reportedly released from Belmarsh maximum security prison and is on his way to Saipan ahead of release and return to Australia

  • Criminal gangs who ‘shoulder-surf’ pin numbers steal ‘20 smartphones a day’

  • How Tory neglect flooded Britain’s rivers with sewage

  • Britons think UK is in a bad way, but French more pessimistic, survey shows

  • Julian Assange’s mother grateful his ‘ordeal’ is ending as father welcomes ‘wonderful’ news

  • Julian Assange released from prison, WikiLeaks says, after striking deal with US justice department

  • Low wages under Tories have pushed 900,000 UK children into poverty, report finds

  • Record number of people have crossed Channel in small boats since January

UK politics

  • Rishi Sunak.

    Sunak defends decision not to take immediate action against Tories in betting scandal – as it happened

  • Rishi Sunak sitting opposite Harry Cole

    Sunak says Truss’s budget was mistaken as Starmer defends backing of Corbyn

    • JK Rowling agrees to meeting with Labour about gender transition policy

    • Senior Tories call for ban on political bets by MPs after election scandal

    • Labour wants to make UK a clean energy superpower. Will this help those stuck in fuel poverty?

    • Tories in election retreat as resources diverted to defend ministers’ seats

    • Tories launch internal inquiry into election date betting

    • Nigel Farage attacks Mail newspapers over ‘Putin ally’ reports

Analysis and explainers

  • Stella Assange, wife of Julian Assange, co-founder of WikiLeaks, carries a bag with the picture of her husband

    Julian Assange may be on his way to freedom but this is not a clear victory for freedom of the press

  • Rachel Reeves with UK flags and the slogan Change

    UK finances are a mess and Tories and Labour keeping public in the dark, says IFS

  • Someone stepping into a polling station

    Who are the five being investigated over UK election date betting scandal?

  • General Election campaign 2024<br>Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer and shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves visit Ocean Gate container terminal at Southampton docks where they saw trains being loaded with goods from around the world and later held a Q&amp;A with workers. The two were campaigning in the south of England for next month’s General Election on July4. Picture date: Monday June 17, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story POLITICS Election Labour. Photo credit should read: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

    A Norway deal? Rejoining? What are Labour’s options for forging closer ties with Europe?

Culture

  • Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey

    The Who’s Quadrophenia to be revived as a ballet

  • Emma Nziok DJ-ing on stage

    African and Asian artists condemn ‘humiliating’ UK and EU visa refusals

    ‘Unfair’ rejection rates of up to 70% harm cultural diversity and create a ‘global apartheid’, say promoters and musicians
  • Renata Raksha portrait of Sophie, the late Grammy-nominated producer who died aged 34, in 2021.

    Sophie: posthumous final album to be released in September

    Self-titled album, to be released in September, was almost finished before the Grammy nominee died in 2021, aged 34

  • Glastonbury weather: warm, dry and settled conditions forecast for festival

  • Photos of blaze ripping through York Minster in 1984 to go on display

  • London literary life excludes northern writers, prize organisers say

  • Nelson’s HMS Victory gives scientists vital DNA for battle against deathwatch beetle

Education

  • Blurred image of pupils walking along school corridor

    Poorer high-ability UK children fall behind peers at school from age of 11

  • Maggie Aderin-Pocock smiles as she sits between two pupils at a table

    ‘It opens eyes’: How one UK school has welcomed and learned from refugees

  • Parkfield school in Dorset viewed through a fence

    Flagship free school that cost £35m closes due to lack of pupils

  • Manchester University students walk past the student union

    Next government faces hard choices on English universities, say experts

Society

  • ‘I never felt safe’ … Gerard Gorman at home

    As a child, I was relentlessly abused by a Catholic priest. As an adult, it almost killed me twice

  • Akhmed Yakoob at his campaign office

    Birmingham election candidate apologises for ‘deeply disturbing’ remarks about women

    • Lyndsey Ainscough with her family, husband Christian, daughter Perry and sons Alfie (right) and Spencer.

      Woman says Deborah James’s bowel cancer campaigning helped save her life

    • Video grab showing person sitting on chair in corridor

      Nearly 19,000 NHS patients left waiting for three days in A&E over 12 months

    • A medical worker wearing a glove holds a test tube containing a blood sample

      NHS patients affected by cyber-attack may face six-month wait for blood test

Multimedia

  • Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak

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    Betting, boats and Brexit: Sunak and Starmer are grilled by Sun readers – video highlights

  • Baghdad, Iraq A musician cools down with a hand-held fan

    Tears, cheers and trees poking through flood waters: photos of the day – Monday

    • Manchester airport passengers stuck in long queues after power cut – video

    • Emma Thompson, Chris Packham and Dale Vince lead the protest.

      Restore Nature Now march in London – in pictures

    • Sunak and Starmer condemn Farage's claims the west provoked Russia's invasion of Ukraine – video

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