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UK election 2024
Read the latest updates on the UK general election 2024, which was won by Labour.
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- NewsThe Guardian
Sunak rejected advice to release prisoners early a year ago
Discussions took place in June 2023 but aides thought backbenchers would reject proposal to ease overcrowding
- NewsThe Independent
Keir Starmer vows to ‘drive down bills’ as Labour launches plan for state-owned energy firm
The prime minister accused the previous government of leaving a ‘rot of short-sightedness and self-service’ for Labour to clear up
- NewsThe Guardian
Starmer to take on Labour councils that block pylons delivering clean energy
At formal launch of state-run GB Energy, PM sets out plan to build enough offshore wind facilities to power 20m homes
- NewsThe National
Keir Starmer faces questions on £300 energy bills election promise
KEIR Starmer faces questions over an election campaign promise he made that GB Energy would reduce household bills by £300.
- NewsThe Guardian
Offshore wind to power 20m homes within five years, Starmer to pledge
Scheme will use taxpayer money to develop parts of seabed owned by the royal family
- NewsThe Independent
Sir Keir Starmer poised to oversee explosion in wind farms with £8.3bn energy partnership
Sir Keir Starmer and Ed Miliband today announced the £8.3billion partnership, which they said would ‘unleash billions of investment in clean power’
- NewsSky News
Tom Tugendhat joins race to replace Rishi Sunak as Tory leader
Former security minister Tom Tugendhat has joined the race to replace Rishi Sunak as the next leader of the Conservative Party. Nominations for the race opened up this evening, with Mr Tugendhat, Mr Cleverly, Suella Braverman, Priti Patel, Mel Stride, Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick understood to have picked up the paperwork required to stand.
- NewsThe Telegraph
Starmer warns of ‘more serious crisis than we thought’ in public finances
Sir Keir Starmer has said the public finances are in “more severe crisis” than Labour thought before the election as he paved the way for “difficult” decisions in the autumn Budget.
- NewsThe Telegraph
Potential Scottish Tory leadership candidate suggests new party could fight Holyrood elections
The Scottish Tories should stop fighting Holyrood elections, one of the early favourites in their leadership contest has said as he suggested a new Right-wing party be set up instead.
- NewsThe Independent
Starmer hails progress on next-generation multibillion-pound RAF Tempest fighter jets amid funding worries
The UK’s future flagship jet – known as Tempest – is set to be a sixth-generation stealth aircraft to replace the F-35 warplane