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Police data released through freedom of information requests by Labour shows 5,239 under-18s were caught carrying blades last year in England and Wales

In a tough grilling on BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, Rishi Sunak was forced to listen to messages from viewers tearing into the state of the nation after successive Tory Governments

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage was torn apart by a Question Time audience after campaigners for his party were recorded making racist comments, including about Rishi Sunak

The latest figures from the Electoral Commission show Labour received £3.3million in donations in the week to 19 June, including £500,000 from the artist Anthony Gormley

Labour leader Keir Starmer said Rishi Sunak should have acted sooner as claims emerged that as many as 15 Conservative candidates and officials are being probed over election bets

Labour leader Keir Starmer was joined by actor and campaigner Idris Elba to hear the heartbreaking stories of families whose lives had been devastated by knife crime

Labour’s Deputy Leader Angela Rayner shared memories of going shopping with her nan as she hit the campaign trail to promoter the party's plans to revive struggling town centres

The Prime Minister got tetchy at times as he was put on the spot over Tory failings by voters on LBC after mostly avoiding real people on his highly stage managed campaign visits

Figen Murray is campaigning for tougher security measures at public venues after her son Martyn Hett was killed in the terror attack at an Ariana Grande concert in 2017

Phones4U founder John Caudwell, who gave £500,000 to the Tories ahead of the 2019 General Election, said he was deserting the Conservatives after supporting them for 51 years

Nigel Farage's Reform UK unveils plans for a £140billion tax-slashing splurge. But economic experts trash the sums in the manifesto saying they 'do not add up'

Nigel Farage's Reform UK party are proposing massive cuts to public spending and a Free Speech Bill in their new manifesto 'contract'

In his strongest comments yet on changing the law on assisted dying, Rishi Sunak said he is 'not against it in principle' but safeguards need to be in place to prevent abuse

Rishi Sunak told reporters at the G7 summit in Italy that he was planning to stick around if the Tories are wiped out at the polls - and would serve as an MP for the next Parliament

Rishi Sunak sought to talk tough on migration at the summit in Italy on Friday as he lags in the opinion polls and faces a threat from the right from Nigel Farage’s Reform UK

Princess of Wales Kate Middleton has said that she will attend Trooping the Colour in London on Saturday, three months after she announced her cancer diagnosis

Rishi Sunak is under more pressure after YouGov polling found Reform UK had overtaken the Tories three weeks before the General Election, much to the delight of leader Nigel Farage

President Joe Biden had to be steered back to the other world leaders by Italian PM Giorgia Meloni

Rishi Sunak announced a crackdown on Russia's so-called shadow ships, which provide a vital stream of funds to the Kremlin to finance its invasion of Ukraine

The Tories published their election manifesto today, full of promises to voters. But most of the pledges are not quite as they appear. The Mirror looks into the facts behind the spin

Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves accused the Tories of 'gaslighting' voters and claimed that its manifesto plans could add £4,800 onto mortgages over the next five years

In an interview with the BBC's Nick Robinson, Rishi Sunak was challenged over his past use of private healthcare as he tried to shift blame for the NHS backlog onto striking workers

Nigel Farage said 'every party will suffer' from candidate controversy due to the speed of the election when grilled on the posts from his candidate in Bexhill and Battle

Rishi Sunak tried to sidestep questions about his future as he finally broke cover after dodging the media for 48 hours in the wake of his decision to leave the D-Day events early

Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves has dropped the proposal from Labour’s manifesto, which is set to be published on Thursday, following fears it would confuse savers and be difficult to reintroduce