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The Independent

 The Conservatives are on course for their worst defeat in more than a century with high-profile names including Jeremy Hunt set to lose their seats, according to a new poll.Adding further misery to a raft of gloomy polls for the government, the party will also be completely wiped out in Wales on July 4, the survey predicts.Luke Tryl, executive director of More In Common UK, which carried out the research, said the findings showed that the Tories were in a “deep hole” and the problem was getting worse.The poll, of more than 10,000 people, suggests they would hold on to just...

Conservatives on course for worst defeat in over a century with Jeremy Hunt to lose seat, new mega-poll shows

CNN’s Clare Sebastian reports on Labour leader Keir Starmer’s rise in UK politics. Exit polls indicate Starmer will become the new UK prime minister once the votes have been counted in the 2024 UK elections.

Meet the man the exit poll says will be the new UK prime minister

 A cabinet minister has said Labour is heading for the biggest general election landslide in history, effectively throwing in the towel before polls have even opened. In an extraordinary admission on the eve of polling day, work and pensions secretary Mel Stride said Sir Keir Starmer is on course to win a Commons majority with more seats than Sir Tony Blair in 1997.That would leave the Tories with a handful of MPs and facing the danger of extinction. He alluded to the 1931 election in which Labour leader Ramsey Macdonald led the National Government to victory with a record...

Tories concede defeat with 24 hours until general election polls open

Reuters

CLACTON-ON-SEA, England (Reuters) -Nigel Farage, leader of the right-wing Reform UK party, won a seat in the British parliament for the first time on Friday in the seaside English town of Clacton-on-Sea, as voters deserted Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's Conservative Party.

Nigel Farage wins seat in UK parliament

Liz Truss, Britain's shortest-serving prime minister, suffered further political ignominy Friday when she sensationally lost her seat in parliament at the British general election.  Truss, a member of parliament since 2010, was slow hand-clapped onto the stage after keeping the other candidates waiting for several minutes.

Ex-prime minister Liz Truss loses seat at UK election

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The FBI has seen a rise in scams targeting timeshare owners. In this kind of scam, criminals con these part-time property owners into shelling out hefty sums of cash, all under false pretenses related to their timeshare properties.

FBI warns that Mexican cartels are targeting Americans with timeshare scams

Abigail Disney, an heiress to the Disney family fortune, plans to withhold donations to Democrats until Joe Biden drops out. Biden has said he has no plans to drop out of the race. Gideon Stein said he's decided to pause planned donations of $3.5 million. President Joe Biden is facing...

Disney heiress, wealthy Democratic donors say they won't finance the party until Joe Biden drops out

Top Democrats Nancy Pelosi and House Rep. Jim Clyburn said it is fair to raise concerns about President Joe Biden's fitness after he stumbled through his first debate with former President Donald Trump. Pelosi and Clyburn are some of the first high-profile Democrats to publicly validate recent anxieties about the...

Top Democrats Pelosi, Clyburn say Biden age concerns are 'legitimate' after debate

Carsten Nickel, managing director at U.S. corporate advisory firm Teneo, says that immigration into the U.K. will continue to haunt the center-right after the U.K. elections.

One issue will continue to haunt the Conservatives after these elections, says analyst

As president, Trump called for the elimination of the Education Department's debt relief programs, including the popular Public Service Loan Forgiveness initiative, which benefits public employees such as members of the U.S. Armed Forces, first responders, public defenders, prosecutors and teachers. He also wanted to slash the department's budget, and...

Trump may roll back student loan forgiveness programs if elected to second term

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Bucks County Beacon

We are in dangerous waters on this Independence Day. While we obsess over the horse race and the latest polls, rubbernecking at the tragic disintegration of an accomplished, public-spirited president, the plot to overthrow American democracy and replace it with a violent, repressive, despotic regime is well underway.

Confronting a ‘Second American Revolution’ on the 4th of July

Reform leader overturns 25,000 Tory majority, as his party wins in Ashfield, Great Yarmouth and Boston and Skegness.

Farage elected MP for first time as Reform wins four seats

Nestlé's CEO, Mark Schneider, tells CNBC's Silvia Amaro that the group's new line of meals intended for those on GLP-1 medication is a companion range, insisting Nestlé is "not the drug manufacturer."

Nestlé reveals new food line for those on weight-loss medication

The Associated Press

Voters in the U.K. are casting their ballots in a national election to choose the 650 lawmakers who will sit in Parliament for the next five years. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak surprised his own party on May 22 when he called the election, which could have taken place as late as January 2025.

The Latest | The UK goes to the polls in a national election with results expected early Friday

The Liberal Democrats are set to increase their presence in Parliament more than five-fold, compared with the General Election result in 2019.Exit poll forecasters have said Sir Ed Davey’s party is on course for 61 seats.The Lib Dems won just 11 seats almost five years ago when the Conservative Party secured an 80-seat majority in the House of Commons under Boris Johnson.Throughout the campaign, Sir Ed has toured the country in his battle bus called Yellow Hammer 1, taking part in stunts including toppling off a paddleboard in Windermere, playing tennis in Newbury and surfing near Bude in Cornwall.The Liberal...

Liberal Democrats on course for five-fold General Election result boost

UPI News

Britain's Labor Party is expected to win the biggest majority of any single party since 1832 in parliamentary elections Thursday, according to a final poll.

Polls suggest Fourth of July landslide for Labor Party in Britain's general election

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The center-right Conservative Party has governed Britain for the past 14 years, but frustrated voters are ready for a change.

Labour Party To Win U.K. General Election, Exit Polls Show

Election night starts the moment voting ends, with the exit poll at 10pm. At the last general election, in December 2019, the exit poll overestimated the Conservatives’ win by three seats. It underestimated them by four seats in 2017, and by 15 seats in 2015. In 2005 and in 2010, the exit poll got the number of the leading party’s seats exactly right, first Labour and then the Conservatives.The size of Labour’s predicted majority will be compared instantly with the historical benchmarks: Tony Blair, 179 (1997); Stanley Baldwin, 209 (1924); David Lloyd George, 239 (1918); Stanley Baldwin, 243 (1935); Ramsay...

Voices: Election night: Everything to watch out for once the polls close

"The reason why, you know, markets would be upset ... for any government, not only for France, is that fiscal policy does not adapt to the [European Central Bank's] new fiscal framework," European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos told CNBC on Tuesday. However, de Guindos stressed that movements...

Markets will be 'upset' if new French government does not commit to fiscal rules, European Central Bank's vice-president says

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Virginia fans of The Young and the Restless have asked where Elena Dawson (Brytni Sarpy) has been. She has not been seen or mentioned in Genoa City for quite a while. There is nothing online about Sarpy's status, and Y&R spoilers for next week do not mention the character, so fans wonder if she has been let go.

Fans of The Young and the Restless are concerned about Brtyni Sarpy and Conner Floyd's status

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Labour Party wins UK election in a landslide: Live updates

LONDON — The U.K.'s opposition Labour Party won a huge parliamentary majority in the country's general election, unseating the incumbent Conservatives after 14 years. Early on...

Labour Party wins UK election in a landslide: Live updates

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