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26/05/24 - Stanmore, Harrow. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Bob Blackman meet with members and activists in a cafe. Picture by Edward Massey / CCHQ
03/06/24 - Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. The Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Caroline Newton, and Lucy Demery visit Leander Rowing Club. Picture by Edward Massey / CCHQ
03/06/24 - Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. The Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Caroline Newton, and Lucy Demery visit Leander Rowing Club. Picture by Edward Massey / CCHQ
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May 25th was the 6th phase of India’s General Election, 2024. In this phase, candidates are in the running for 58 seats in 8 states and Union Territories, including the capital, New Delhi. There are more than 900 million eligible voters in this national election, and millions of poll workers are working across the country to run the world’s largest democratic election.
This footage depicts people at a polling location in New Delhi, India. There are an estimated 13,000 polling booths across the city. A ‘yellow alert’ was issued by the weather department with temperatures crossing 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit).
Just weeks before the General Elections began, Delhi’s Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was arrested under corruption allegations. Kejriwal leads the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). Around the time of the arrest, opposition parties held a protest saying they are being targeted ahead of the upcoming national elections. An alliance of 40 political parties, including AAP and the Indian National Congress (INC) were represented at the protest. India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said Kejriwal’s arrest and the tax notice on INC is about stamping out corruption. Kejriwal was released on bail on May 10th
Each political party in India has a different election symbol. The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is represented by a lotus symbol. The Indian National Congress (INC) is one of the biggest opposition parties and is represented by a hand. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which is in power in Delhi, is represented by a broom. The Communist Party of India is represented by a hammer and sickle.
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28/06/24 -East Harsley, Yorkshire. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak visits the East Harlsey Cricket Club for a T20 match. Picture by Edward Massey / CCHQ
22/06/24 - Harrow, Greater London. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Bob Blackman visit the Shree Kutch Satsang Swaminarayan Temple. Picture by Edward Massey / CCHQ
02/07/24 - Chelsea, London. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Boris Johnson, and Michael Gove hold a rally at the National Army Museum. Picture by Edward Massey / CCHQ
29/05/24 - Honiton, Devon. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Simon Jump, and Rebecca Pow visit Supacat for a Q&A with their employees. Picture by Edward Massey / CCHQ
28/05/24 - Market Bosworth, Leicestershire. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Luke Evans visit Market Bosworth Bowling Club to meet with members and play an end of bowls. Picture by Edward Massey / CCHQ
26/05/24 - Stanmore, Harrow. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Bob Blackman meet with members and activists in a cafe. Picture by Edward Massey / CCHQ
26/05/24 - Stanmore, Harrow. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Bob Blackman meet with members and activists in a cafe. Picture by Edward Massey / CCHQ
17/06/24 - North Sea. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Claire Coutinho visit a Centrica gas storage rig Rough 47 3/B to have a tour and meet with workers. Picture by Edward Massey / CCHQ
24/05/24 - Cannock, Staffordshire. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak visits Cannock College with Amanda Milling to meet with students. Picture by Edward Massey / CCHQ
28/06/24 - Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Matt Vickers visit Holy Trinity Rosehill CE Primary School. Picture by Edward Massey / CCHQ
30/06/24 -Golders Green, London. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak visits Machzike Hadath Synagogue with Alex Deane and Ameet Jogia. Picture by Edward Massey / CCHQ
07/06/24 - Stonehouse, Gloucestershire. The Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Siobhan Baillie, and Laura Trott visits Great Oldbury Academy to meet with young students and teachers. Picture by Edward Massey / CCHQ
26/05/24 - Stanmore, Harrow. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Bob Blackman meet with members and activists in a cafe. Picture by Edward Massey / CCHQ
23/05/24 - Highland, Scotland. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Douglas Ross MP visit the Port of Nigg. Picture by Edward Massey / CCHQ
24/05/24 - Belfast, Northern Ireland. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak visits Artemis Technology with Chris Heaton-Harris MP to visit their factory and take a ride on their electric boat. Picture by Edward Massey / CCHQ
02/07/24 - Carterton, Oxfordshire. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Robert Courts visit Morrisons to meet with employees. Picture by Edward Massey / CCHQ
01/06/24 - Redcar, Yorkshire. The Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Jacob Young holds a rally at the launch the Conservative Campaign Bus in Redcar. Picture by Edward Massey / CCHQ
17/06/24 - North Sea. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Claire Coutinho visit a Centrica gas storage rig Rough 47 3/B to have a tour and meet with workers. Picture by Edward Massey / CCHQ
17/06/24 - North Sea. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Claire Coutinho visit a Centrica gas storage rig Rough 47 3/B to have a tour and meet with workers. Picture by Edward Massey / CCHQ
17/06/24 - North Sea. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Claire Coutinho visit a Centrica gas storage rig Rough 47 3/B to have a tour and meet with workers. Picture by Edward Massey / CCHQ
24/05/24 - Cannock, Staffordshire. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak visits Cannock College with Amanda Milling to meet with students. Picture by Edward Massey / CCHQ
24/05/24 - Cannock, Staffordshire. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak visits Cannock College with Amanda Milling to meet with students. Picture by Edward Massey / CCHQ
03/06/24 - Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. The Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Caroline Newton, and Lucy Demery visit Leander Rowing Club. Picture by Edward Massey / CCHQ
08/06/24 - Great Ayton, Yorkshire. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak visits the Great Ayton Summer Fate to meet local vendors. Picture by Edward Massey / CCHQ
19/06/24 - Cornwall. Foreign Secretary David Cameron visits Trevaskis Farm
With Parliamentary candidate Connor Donnithorne. Picture by Brandon Hattiloney / CCHQ
NSP's Goh Meng Seng sends his late brother and election agent, Christopher Goh, on his final journey.
General Elections 2011. Day Six. 2011/05/02.
02/07/24 - Banbury, Oxfordshire. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Victoria Prentis visit Wykham Park Farm. Picture by Edward Massey / CCHQ
30/06/24 -Golders Green, London. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak visits Machzike Hadath Synagogue with Alex Deane and Ameet Jogia. Picture by Edward Massey / CCHQ
27/05/24 - Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Nigel Gardner tour Woods of Berkhamsted Garden Centre and then pick up some cakes from a local cafe. Picture by Edward Massey / CCHQ
26/05/24 - Stanmore, Harrow. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Bob Blackman meet with members and activists in a cafe. Picture by Edward Massey / CCHQ
The Leicester East constituency was held by Keith Vaz (Labour) for years until details of his private life emerged. Basically sex, drugs (but no rock and roll). He is running again under the 'One Leicester' party banner.
Shivani Raja appears to be newcomer. She hasn't been elected before for anything.
whocanivotefor.co.uk/person/116876/shivani-raja
All the candidates are listed here:
whocanivotefor.co.uk/elections/parl.leicester-east.2024-0...
17/06/24 - North Sea. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Claire Coutinho visit a Centrica gas storage rig Rough 47 3/B to have a tour and meet with workers. Picture by Edward Massey / CCHQ
17/06/24 - North Sea. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Claire Coutinho visit a Centrica gas storage rig Rough 47 3/B to have a tour and meet with workers. Picture by Edward Massey / CCHQ
03/07/24 - London. Borris Johnson introduces Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's election rally speech in London. Picture by Brandon Hattiloney / CCHQ.
More than 130 people packed the Prince Albert pub in Rodborough on Monday evening for a General Election hustings event.
Six of the seven Parliamentary candidates joined the debate, hosted by Stroud Times’ Faye Hatcher. They were: Siobhan Baillie (Conservative); Jason Hughes (Volt UK); George James (Lib Dem); Pete Kennedy (Green Party); Christopher Lester (Reform UK) and Dr Simon Opher (Labour Party). Independent candidate Saskia Whitfield did not attend.
Questions from the audience ranged from how candidates would tackle the climate crisis, countryside rights of way, funding of children’s services, support for WASPI women and how to make Stroud a safer place for cyclists.
In her introduction Ms Baillie said: “I’m meeting Labour voters who say Keir Starmer is too Tory and they’re voting Green, I’m meeting Green voters who are saying we shouldn’t be doing tactical voting. I’m meeting long-standing Conservative voters who are not giving up on the party, even though it looks like we are facing relegation in the polls.
“I’ve always tried really hard to work seven days a week for you and I’m proud to stand on my local record here, whether that is doing things that people said couldn’t be done, like step-free access at the railway station, tackling Tricorn House, or getting national free childcare for everybody and tackling anonymous abuse and many, many more things.”
Volt UK candidate Jason Hughes told the audience: “Why am I here? Because I’m absolutely sick and tired of the state of politics. Our country is broken. I sat at home thinking what am I going to do about it? Do I even bother to vote, is there going to be any change?
“Yes, we are going to flip to a Labour Government but nothing’s going to change, it’s all going to be the same. Nobody’s talking about the most important thing right now, about Brexit and the impact that’s had on our economy.
“I decided to stand up and join Volt because they are a pan pro-European party. We want to reverse Brexit and make sure our economy is repaired because of it.
Lib Dem candidate George James told of his career as a teacher for the past 20 years and how education should be a key focus: “I’ve educated hundreds of kids and the thing that has started to get to me is the poor state of education. Funding needs to be reformed, especially in the FE sector.
“If we’re going to reverse any issues in the constituency the place to start is with education, all the way from early years through to University. The other thing I will be looking at is the cost-of-living crisis.”
Green candidate Pete Kennedy said: “for 14 years the Conservatives have failed us. They’ve overseen the worst squeeze on living standards in generations. The NHS is in crisis, and they have failed to address the climate emergency. Their economic mismanagement led to soaring inequality, stagnant wages and the cost-of-living crisis that’s hurting families across Stroud and the country.
“This was a deliberate project to undermine the public sector and sell off public assets and undermine workers’ rights, all based on the big lie that there is no money left. We need more Green MPs to push the new Labour Government to make real transformative change, and every single Green vote will send a message to Kier Starmer in Westminster demanding that change.”
Christopher Lester, the Reform candidate, told the audience he had been a Conservative voter but became disillusioned and resigned from the party: “I want to put more money in your pocket by raising the tax threshold to £20,000 from the present level of £12,500. That’s been costed and it could be done.
“I want to stop a lot of the immigration – yes, I’m from an immigrant family – way back in the 1920s my family came over from Eastern Poland, so I do have a background of immigration, but it’s got too big, too large and I think we have to do something drastic about that.
“We need to look at the boats that come across the channel – there have been deaths in the channel, and I want to stop that.
“For every ten boats that come across, seven of them should go back to France because the nearest safe port is France, not Britain.”
In his introduction, Labour candidate Dr Simon Opher said: “No disrespect to Siobhan, but we need the Tories out, and we them out straightaway because the damage they’ve done to this country is unimaginable.
“We haven’t got enough sustainable energy, education is in the doldrums, early years is in crisis, cost-of-living, NHS, policing and even drinking water isn’t safe anymore. We need change and what I want to represent here is hope for a new future.”
However, the penultimate question, ‘What makes a good leader and how do you know your party has one?’ drew laughter from some of the audience when Dr Opher responded: “I know Keir isn’t that popular, so what I would say about him is that he is effective. He has changed the Labour Party into a position where we are likely to win a large majority. That is effective.
“Now I know you don’t like him, but I would say that he’s competent and slightly on the dull spectrum perhaps. Maybe that’s what we need after the last five years.”
After the event Dr Opher told Stroud Times: “The Labour party has always been a broad church, strengthened by its ability to accommodate differing views from different groups. Keir has proven himself to be an extraordinarily effective leader - both as a public servant, leading the DPP, as a shadow cabinet member, and as leader of a changed Labour Party. He has built a highly competent and varied team who, in government, will be able to deliver the change this country so desperately needs.
“But I recognise from doorstep conversations that he is not universally feted or indeed understood by everyone in Stroud. Some would like him to be more of a showman. My comment reflected that fact, and my personal view that after 14 years of abject failure with the Tories, a competent government with no surprises would be very welcome.”
Lotte Lyster Connolly, Licensee of the Prince Albert, and organiser of this and previous hustings said: “We were delighted to have six of the candidates and I felt it was really enlightening and I heard things from all the candidates that interests me.
“We don’t know it [the General Election] is a foregone conclusion yet, but the most important thing is that people vote and are informed, so that’s what we are doing tonight, making sure people get the information they need so they can decide who to vote for.
“The audience was very respectful and gave the candidates a chance to put forward their views. We had the whole political spectrum here tonight, and in the audience as well, so it wasn’t as one-dimensional as it has been in the past.”
The event was live streamed on Facebook, attracting 16,500 views and is still available to view at www.facebook.com/ThePrinceAlbertStroud
24/05/24 - Belfast, Northern Ireland. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak visits Artemis Technology with Chris Heaton-Harris MP to visit their factory and take a ride on their electric boat. Picture by Edward Massey / CCHQ
02/07/24 - Chelsea, London. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Boris Johnson, and Michael Gove hold a rally at the National Army Museum. Picture by Edward Massey / CCHQ
30/06/24 -Golders Green, London. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak visits Machzike Hadath Synagogue with Alex Deane and Ameet Jogia. Picture by Edward Massey / CCHQ
12/06/24 - Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Lia Nici visit John Whitgift Academy to meet with students. Picture by Edward Massey / CCHQ
11/06/24 - Silverstone, Northamptonshire. Silverstone, Northamptonshire. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak launches the manifesto at Silverstone with the Cabinet. Picture by Brandon Hattiloney / CCHQ