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Our weekly poll shows just 18% of voters plan to support Rishi Sunak’s party. Keir Starmer's Labour has the backing of 38%, while 21% say they plan to vote for Reform UK

With polling day right around the corner, Dr Rebecca Whittington, Online Safety Editor at Reach, has revealed her tips on how to check if the information you're reading is the real deal or if it is fake

The disgraced former Labour MP stepped down in 2019 after he was suspended for offering to buy drugs for sex workers and failing to cooperate with an investigation

Going to be away from home on July 4? Make sure you register for a postal vote so you can have your say in the general election - but be quick, because the deadline is just days away

Richard Tice said: "There are millions still sitting on furlough, being paid not to work. Open up, stop furlough." The same year his party claimed more than £60,000 in Covid job retention scheme payments

The Tories accepted £5million in January from The Phoenix Partnership, the Leeds-based firm owned by Frank Hester, who allegedly said Diane Abbott should be shot

New figures released ahead of the General Election show nearly two million registered voters do not have valid photo ID - putting them at risk of being turned away on polling day

The UK will go to the polls on July 4 in the General Election to decide on the future government - people have been given the deadlines by which they must register to vote

Accusations are mounting against the Chinese state for multiple hacking attempts targeting MoD staff, leaking personal details of both current staff and veterans

Ex-Prime Minister Boris Johnson fell foul of the voter ID rules introduced when he was in Downing Street when he tried to cast his ballot in the local elections in South Oxfordshire

Around 2,600 council seats across are up for grabs in 107 local authorities while police and crime commissioner elections are being held in both England and Wales.

Andy Street - the Conservative Mayor of the West Midlands - is trailing his Labour candidate by 14 points in the area with less than three weeks to go until the election

While 44million are registered to vote in May's local elections in England and Wales as many as seven million are incorrectly registered - or missing entirely from the electoral register

Freedom of Information requests show several strikes on data, some feared personal, at the City of London Corporation which governs an area including the Bank of England and the London Stock Exchange

New Best for Britain research found 16% of voters don't know they have to make to show acceptable types of photo ID to vote - which could be decisive in marginal seats

MPs on the Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee hit out at a creaking 'Victorian-era' registration system and new rules requiring people to show ID at the ballot box

The Electoral Commission slapped the Tories with £10,750 in fines after a probe found a donor had allowed a member of staff to be seconded to the party - but it wasn't correctly declared

It’s understood Frank Hester has donated another £5million to the Tories since January - a figure the Tories did not deny - on top of the £10million he had already handed the party

Businessman Frank Hester, who gifted the Tories £10million, allegedly said seeing Diane Abbott on TV made him 'want to hate all Black women' and that she should be 'shot'

The donation, which was uncovered by DeSmog, was made by hedge fund boss Crispin Odey last August just weeks after 13 women accused him of sexual harassment or abuse

The Conservative Party accepted £350,000 from Sandeep Singh Chadha who is the boss of a company that sells vapes with names such as Blue Razz Lemonade and Strawberry Mousse

Conservative Party has introduced voter ID, which threatens to disenfranchise two million people if they turn up on the day without the right documents, and is now accused of trying to rig the election

The independent Electoral Commission slammed the plans, comparing the proposals to a cricket team “telling the umpire how to enforce the rules of the game”

After 14 years of Tory misrule, the British people have had enough of shambolic and dishonest government by gimmick.

In a letter to Local Government Minister Simon Hoare, the cross-party House of Lords Constitution Committee said the elderly and disabled people are among those worst affected