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A Tory pledge not to increase income tax, VAT or National Insurance contributions has been criticised by a leading think tank.

Labour has promised to put bad landlords "out of business" as the party unveiled its plans to curb rent rises and beef up tenants' rights.

Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn are "peddling two sets of fantasies" ahead of the 12 December election, according to Tony Blair.

Labour would hit oil and gas companies with an £11bn one-off tax to help workers move into low-carbon jobs, Jeremy Corbyn has declared.

A Conservative government will ensure that nobody who needs social care will have to sell their home to pay for it, the Health Secretary has promised.

The Conservatives have vowed to introduce "lifetime" fixed rate mortgages to make it easier for renters to get on the property ladder if the party wins the general election.

Schools will get a £10bn budget boost and 20,000 more teachers if the Liberal Democrats win the election, the party has promised.

Victims of crime and the media would be able to attend parole board hearings under a raft of pre-election promises made by the Conservatives to overhaul the justice system.

The Green Party has pledged to spend £100bn reducing the UK's carbon emissions to zero by the end of the next decade.

The chairman of Keith Vaz's local Labour party has quit after a Jeremy Corbyn ally was picked to replace the disgraced former MP as an election candidate.

Labour has said it will not investigate one of its Welsh election candidates over her role in a Facebook group that offered advice to members excluded from the party because of anti-semitism claims.

The Liberal Democrats and the SNP will mount legal challenges to ITV's "grossly unfair" election debates format at the High Court on Monday.

Jeremy Corbyn has dropped a clear hint that free movement of people could continue post-Brexit under a Labour government.

A Labour government would not bow to the SNP's demand for a second Scottish independence referendum until at least 2021, Jeremy Corbyn has said.

Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay has accused Donald Tusk of "interference" in Britain's general election campaign.

Immigrants arriving in Britain will be asked to contribute to the cost of running the NHS on "day one" under a crackdown being unveiled by Boris Johnson.

Britain is on a "path to fascism" if female MPs feel they have to step down to avoid attacks from "hatemongers", Hillary Clinton has warned.

Campaigners for a second Brexit referendum have urged rival candidates to step aside in a bid to maximise the number of pro-EU MPs elected on 12 December.

The Conservatives will cut "overall" immigration if Boris Johnson wins the election, Priti Patel has declared.

A former minister under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown has called on voters to reject Jeremy Corbyn and back Boris Johnson because the Labour leader cannot be “trusted” with the Union.

A furious row has erupted in the Liberal Democrats after the party's candidate in a key marginal seat announced he was stepping aside to boost Labour's chances of winning it.

A former Conservative MP who was convicted of expenses irregularities and lost his seat has decided not to stand for the Tories again following an angry backlash.

Boris Johnson will promise to end the UK's Brexit "groundhoggery" and accuse those pushing for a second referendum of "political self-obsession and onanism".

Labour has pledged to pump £26bn extra into the NHS as part of a wide-ranging "rescue plan" if the party wins the general election.

A fresh election row has erupted as the Conservatives claimed a Labour government would see workers cough up an extra £2,400 in taxes every year because of a "black hole" in the party's spending plans.

Labour has urged the Conservatives to ditch an election candidate over a string of "disgusting" articles about Muslims and the spread of the HIV virus.

Boris Johnson has called a meeting of the Government's emergency Cobra committee amid mounting criticism of his response to major flooding in northern England. 

Labour would ensure every child has access to mental health support at school if the party wins the general election, Jeremy Corbyn has announced.

A majority of Britons would not mind if Northern Ireland left the UK so long as they got their preferred Brexit outcome, a new poll has found.

Labour's Keith Vaz has announced that he will not run to become an MP again after being handed a six-month Commons ban for causing "significant damage" to its reputation.

Boris Johnson will make an election pledge to amend the Human Rights Act in an effort to stop military veterans being prosecuted over killings that took place during The Troubles.

Former Conservative Cabinet minister Brian Mawhinney has died at the age of 79 after a long illness, his family have announced.

Chancellor Sajid Javid has defended the Conservatives' election claim that a Labour government would usher in more than one trillion pounds'-worth of extra public spending over the next five years.

Sajid Javid has confirmed that a long-promised Conservative inquiry into Islamophobia will now be broadened out to include "all types of prejudice".

John Bercow has unleashed a bitter attack on David Cameron, accusing the former prime minister of being "born to rule".

A senior Labour frontbencher has denied changing the lyrics of the Beatles song "Hey Jude" to "Hey Jews" during a late-night bus journey.