Prime minister claims victory but opposition dismisses poll results as fixed and unscientificIndian prime minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata party (BJP)-led alliance is projected to win a big majority in the general election that concluded on Saturday, TV exit polls said, suggesting it would do better than expected by most analysts.Most exit...

US representative and failed contender for president says Kathy Hochul should grant pardon ‘for the good of the country’The outgoing Democratic US congressman who failed in his presidential primary challenge against Joe Biden called on the New York governor, Kathy Hochul, to pardon Donald Trump over his criminal conviction for hush-money payments to...

Failed contender for the Democratic presidential nomination says Kathy Hochul should grant pardon ‘for the good of the country’The outgoing Democratic US congressman who failed in his presidential primary challenge against Joe Biden called on the New York governor, Kathy Hochul, to pardon Donald Trump over his criminal conviction for hush-money payments...

Starmer’s party was quicker out of the digital gate, with slicker, more engaging content than the Tory offeringThe video opens with an old clip of Cilla Black singing her classic ‘Surprise, Surprise!’. The caption reads “POV: Rishi Sunak turns up at your 18th birthday to send you to war.”This appeared on Labour’s TikTok account the day after the Conservatives...

Former Tory minister admits at festival that he felt a fraud due to need to give the impression he was in three places at onceFormer Conservative MP Rory Stewart found being a politician “very yucky” and felt like a fraud, he told an audience at Hay festival on Saturday.Asked whether he would consider going back into politics, he said that he found...

Lack of care and support leaves patients stranded on units when they are clinically ready to be dischargedThe number of patients stuck in NHS mental health units in England despite being clinically ready to leave has reached its highest level in at least eight years.“Delayed discharges” of patients from hospitals in NHS mental health trusts reached...