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A Conservative general election candidate has been forced to stand down after just 24 hours over comments he made in the past about rape.
Nobody could miss the big, bright, orange bus with Jo Swinson’s face beaming down as it rocked up in rural Somerset.
A Labour election candidate has been criticised after she appeared to compare celebrating the death of Tony Blair to cheering Adolf Hitler's demise.
The Conservatives have selected an MP candidate who said women should "keep their knickers on" to avoid being raped.
The Liberal Democrats, Greens and Plaid Cymru have agreed to a tactical voting pact which will them standing aside for each other in 60 seats in a bid to boost the chances of pro-Remain candidates.
Labour has demanded the Tories drop one of their general election candidates after she called for people who featured on Benefits Street to be "put down".
Labour has blasted the rising number of cancelled operations as a “shameful indictment” of the Tory government as it continued its bid to put the NHS at the centre of the election campaign.
Former minister Margot James has become the latest female Tory to announce she is quitting as an MP - just days after having the Conservative whip restored.
Liberal Democrat women are demanding their leader Jo Swinson be included in TV election debates to “inspire women and girls into leadership roles”.
The Brexit Party will stand against Tories in hundreds of seats unless Boris Johnson agrees to dump his new Withdrawal Agreement, Nigel Farage has declared.
UK electoral law poses “serious and unnecessary risks” for voters, parties and candidates and could threaten public confidence, MPs have warned.
The Brexit Party could step aside in hundreds of seats in what would be a huge election boost to Boris Johnson, it has emerged.
Voters will go to the polls on 12 December after MPs finally backed Boris Johnson's bid to hold a pre-Christmas election.
An attempt by MPs to give 16 and 17-year-olds and EU nationals the right to vote in the upcoming general election has been stopped in its tracks.
Boris Johnson has slapped down plans to allow teenagers and EU nationals to vote in the planned 12 December election as “administratively impossible”.
Boris Johnson would support an election on 11 December - 24 hours earlier than he has been calling for.
Boris Johnson has launched a fresh bid to hold a snap election on 12 December - just minutes after MPs rejected his latest attempt to go to the country.
Boris Johnson has failed in his latest bid to force a general election.
Dods People draws together a list of appointments in Westminster politics, the devolved administrations and the public affairs sector in the last week.
Boris Johnson could end up supporting an SNP and Lib Dem bid to hold an election on 9 December if Parliament rejects his own proposal for a pre-Christman poll, it has emerged.
Labour has been plunged into chaos after deep splits emerged over whether it should support Boris Johnson's bid to hold a general election on 12 December.
Labour MP Ian Murray has been reselected to fight the next election, despite a bid by Unite to dump him.
Boris Johnson's attempt to hold an election on 12 December were left hanging in the balance after opposition parties warned they could withhold support for it.
Boris Johnson has launched a dramatic bid to hold a general election on 12 December.