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The PM visited a hangar at Teesside International Airport to congratulate Lord Houchen on his third term
Votes
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President Biden called Japan and India xenophobic at an off-camera campaign fundraiser in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, lumping the U.S. allies in with China and Russia while making the argument that the United States is right to welcome in immigrants. This election is about freedom, America and democracy. Thats why I badly need you. You []
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LONDON (AP) Millions of voters in England and Wales cast ballots Thursday in an array of local elections amounting to the last big test before a U.K. general election that all indicators suggest will see the Conservative Party ousted from power after 14 years. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will hope he can point to []
![Watch: Keir Starmer arrives at polling station to cast election vote | News [Video]](https://europenewsvideo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/mp_1015023_0_posterjpg.jpg)
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and his wife Victoria arrived at a polling station to cast their votes in the local and London Mayoral elections today. Voters head to the polls on Thursday (2 May) in a series of local elections seen as the final test of public opinion before Rishi Sunak goes to the country later this year. A total of 11 mayoral contests are also taking place, including for the London mayoralty between frontrunners, Labour incumbent Sadiq Khan and Tory challenger Susan Hall. Sir Keir arrived to vote in his Holborn and St Pancras constituency early on Thursday.
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Conservative London Mayor candidate Susan Hall arrived early to cast her vote in the local elections on Thursday (2 May). Ms Hall. dressed in a purple jacket, arrived at Hatch End Lawn Tennis Club to cast her vote earlier today. Voters head to the polls on Thursday in a series of local elections seen as the final test of public opinion before Rishi Sunak goes to the country later this year. A total of 11 mayoral contests are also taking place, including for the London mayoralty between frontrunners, Labour incumbent Sadiq Khan and Tory challenger Ms Hall.
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Campaign groups have warned that controversial voter ID rules may prevent people from voting
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Sadiq Khan and Susan Hall facing off in London Mayoral election as contests taking place in 107 local authorities across England
![Local elections is last chance for Tories to close gap on Labour – here’s a run-down of key battleground contests [Video]](https://europenewsvideo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/mp_1014320_0_TBCOMPLOCALELECTIONSjpg.jpg)
IF this years General Election is shaping up to be a prize political fight, then Thursdays locals are the all-important pre-match weigh-in.
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President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign released a brutal ad on abortion after Donald Trump said the issue should be left to the states, blasting his Republican rival for his position.
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Americans have a message for news organizations as they prepare to cover the 2024 election: About half of Americans say they’re concerned that outlets will report inaccuracies or misinformation.
![Tory mayor Ben Houchen takes extraordinary swipe at Rishi Sunak on eve of local elections [Video]](https://europenewsvideo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/mp_1014504_0_AFP32EK68Qjpg.jpg)
Exclusive: Tees Valley mayors extraordinary broadside against his own party as Tories brace for drubbing in local elections and MPs plot no-confidence vote in event of Labour landslide
![Michigan Governor Whitmer calls Trump’s abortion stance ‘baloney’ and insists you ‘can’t trust him’ after he told TIME states could ‘monitor pregnancies’ [Video]](https://europenewsvideo.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/mp_1014234_0_843283830imagem111714581359295jpg.jpg)
Democratic Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer put Donald Trump on blast over abortion ahead of his visit to her state, calling his stance ‘baloney.’