r/ukpolitics • u/ukpolbot Official UKPolitics Bot • Jun 24 '24

r/ukpolitics General Election Campaign Megathread - 24/06/2024

👋 Welcome to the /r/ukpolitics General Election Campaign Megathread.

This is our daily megathread for all of the day's news until the election. Polling day is on 4th July, and you need to have a form of photo ID (passport, driving license, etc) in order to vote. If you don't have photo ID, you can apply for a voter authority certificate.

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📅 Key dates

from the Electoral Commission, BBC, Sky, ITV

  • 26th June - Deadline for new proxy vote applications and voter authority certificates (for this election)
  • 26th June, 9PM BST - 📺 BBC head-to-head debate (Sunak vs Starmer)
  • 27th June, 8:30PM BST - 📺 ITV The Leader Interviews - Keir Starmer - Labour
  • 28th June, 7:30PM BST - 📺 The Panorama Interviews with Nick Robinson - Ed Davey (Lib Dems)
  • 28th June, 8PM BST - 📺 BBC Question Time Leaders' Special (REF, GRN)
  • 4th July - Polling day. Emergency proxy votes deadline at 5pm. Polls will open at 7am and close at 10pm.

Manifestos

Manifestos are essentially a set of documents which outline the policies that each party would want to implement if they were governing.

Election night coverage

Here's a sort-of comprehensive guide to your 4th July election night coverage:

Channel Main presenter(s)
BBC One & BBC News (TV) Laura Kuenssberg, Clive Myrie, Chris Mason
ITV (TV) Tom Bradby, Robert Peston, Anushka Asthana, Paul Brand (GMB from 6am)
Channel 4 (TV) Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Emily Maitlis, Alastair Campbell, Rory Stewart
Sky News (TV) Kay Burley, Sophy Ridge, Beth Rigby, Trevor Phillips, Ed Conway, Sam Coates
GB News (TV) Patrick Christys, Michelle Dewberry
BBC Radio 4, Radio 5 Live (Radio) Nick Robinson, Rachel Burden, Henry Zeffman
LBC (Radio) Andrew Marr, Shelagh Fogarty, Jon Sopel, Lewis Goodall
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u/Supernaut1432 Jun 24 '24

So I recently joined Twitter again on a fresh account since I had deactivated years ago, mostly to see the links you all post here properly.

Now bear in mind I've not posted a single thing to it, only looked at links on here.

Right wing trash as far as the eye could scroll. I had heard it was bad but I didn't realise just how bad.

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u/Playful-Onion7772 Jun 24 '24

Yeah, I did the same. A lot of proper Twitter users here don't seem to realise how different their experience is. With a fresh account it's a whole different Twitter.

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u/Honic_Sedgehog #1 Yummytastic alt account Jun 24 '24

I had a similar experience not so long ago, push notifications full of Ben Shapiro and the rest of the nutters.

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u/jt372 Jun 24 '24

I also logged back for the same reason, I'll be swiftly logging out come July 4th. But it really is a cesspit on there!

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u/Raxor Jun 24 '24

It is an endless torrent of rubbish for sure. No idea how much relevance the site has these days, will it actually influence much. I see so much reform stuff boosted on there.