Welcome to the General Election Campaign Megathread. The mad lad Rishi Sunak has called a general election, and now we're bracing ourselves for 6 weeks of bacon sandwiches, newspapers begging you to support their candidates, and a downpour of manifesto pledges.
This is our new daily megathread for all of the day's news until the election. Polling day is on 4th July, and you need to make sure that you are if you haven't already, and that you have a form of photo ID (passport, driving license, etc). If you don't have photo ID, you can apply for a .
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📅 Key dates
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30th May - Parliament is dissolved.
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5th - 16th June - Party manifestos expected to be published (based on Institute for Government analysis of past election periods).
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7th June - Deadline for candidate nominations.
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18th June - Deadline for new voter registration (to be able to vote in this election).
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19th June - Deadline for new postal vote applications (for this election).
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26th June - Deadline for new proxy vote applications and voter authority certificates (for this election).
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4th July - Polling day. Emergency proxy votes deadline at 5pm. Polls will open at 7am and close at 10pm.
