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Daniel Barnett 9pm - 10pm
27 June 2024, 07:06 | Updated: 27 June 2024, 13:29
The Met Police have said seven officers are under investigation over bets made on the timing of the General Election in a joint investigation with the Gambling Commission, while the suspended Labour Party member arrested in relation to the honeytrap scandal is released on bail.
Welcome to LBC's General Election live blog.
Sir Ed Davey has tried his hand at archery in Little Paxton in Cambrideshire while on the election trail.
The Lib Dem leader failed to hit any bullseyes on the target but scored several eight-pointers.
Fife Council has joined Edinburgh City Council in taking urgent action to make sure people who have not received their postal votes yet can still exercise their right to vote.
They have set up emergency centres for residents to have their ballots reissued, or cast their vote ahead of July 4.
Shadow Minister for Industry and Decarbonisation Sarah Jones has said "parliament needs a range of voices" making decisions, in response to David Lammy's comments that the Tories aren't the right "class of people" to run Britain.
Talking to LBC's Tom Swarbrick, she said "it's a fair observation that the government in charge hasn't been in touch with working people and problems of day to day life".
Shadow Foreign Secretary David Lammy said Conservative MPs had a "public-school smallness".
Foreign Office Minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan has told LBC's Tom Swarbrick the racial slurs directed to Rishi Sunak by a Reform UK campaigner are "unacceptable in modern day politics".
She added it was right to forgive Tory donor Frank Hester's comments about Diane Abbott because he apologised, but the comments by Reform's activist aren't the same.
Mr Hester was the centre of a political controversy after claims he said Ms Abbott "should be shot".
Asked what job she would do if she weren't an MP, Education Secretary Gillian Keegan told students "I might have to answer that question next Friday".
She was joined by Labour candidate Tom Collinge and Liberal Democrat Jess Brown-Fuller, where children in Years 3 to 10 asked them questions.
The pupils at Chichester Free School are taking part in the school’s own election, casting their ballots on July 4.
The leader of the Green Party in Northern Ireland Mal O'Hara has asked people to not vote tactically in the election.
"If we keep voting like we have done we will have the shameful record on social environmental justice that this executive has presided over and we won't make change".
He also acknowledged his party "have had a couple of tough elections", but said it's back, with its highest membership in recent years.
He added people get "side tracked into the debate around the constitutional question and around identity politics rather than the bread and butter failures" and vowed his party will call those failures out.
Over 70 members of the Labour Party in Islington North have resigned to support former party leader Jeremy Corbyn's campaign for an Independent seat.
In a letter to constituents in Islington North, they wrote "Jeremy Corbyn has dedicated his life to this constituency" and clarified they will "campaign on the same principles" they always have.
The Prime Minister bought fish and chips at a shop in the seaside town of Redcar on the Yorkshire coast that he handed out to Tory officials and members of the media.
Earlier on, Rishi Sunak met engineering apprentices at Redcar and Cleveland Collage.
Andrew Parker, who made the comments, has since said in a statement "I would like to make it clear that neither Nigel Farage personally or the Reform Party are aware of my personal views on immigration."
Read more here: Rishi Sunak speaks of 'hurt and anger' at daughters having to hear Reform campaigner's p*** slur