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  1. A woman in a wheelchair is sat in front of a laptop and a microphone, looking to her left. She has blonde hair, glasses and is wearing a bright red jumper.

  2. Man pores a box of votes onto a table

  3. A gray-haired man in a blazer and tie stands outdoors, with a blurred street and buildings behind him under a cloudy daytime sky.

  4. The image shows Arron Banks in Westminster walking away from pro-EU campaigners. He is smiling and wearing a dark suit, light blue shirt and red tie.

  5. Kemi Badenoch

  6. Jenny Gilruth sits with pupils opening their exam results

  7. A general view of some glasses of wine on a tray, with red and white varieties

  8. Zack Polanski speaks to Laura Kuenssberg

  9. An image of five party leaders from left to right: the Green party's Zack Polanski, Reform UK's Nigel Farage, Conservative Kemi Badenoch, Liberal Democrat Ed Davey and Labour's Ed Miliband.

  10. Teleri Glyn-Jones, a young woman with dark shoulder length hair wearing a pink and white shirt, sitting at a desk.

  11. Why your ballot paper could be longer than normal this year?

  12. A motorway in Newport with blue signs indicating that drivers should be in the left hand lane for Newport and Cwmbran, and the right two lanes for Cardiff.

  13. A man in a black trilby hat and tan-coloured jacket and patterned scarf talking to a reporter on a bench. The reporter has a black top and hand-held microphone

    14. Sharday Hodges and Carmel Yates shopping in Walsall, West Midlands

    • Sir Keir Starmer speaking into a radio microphone in front of a BBC Radio 4 backdrop.

    • Wales Green Party leader Anthony Slaughter in green shirt and grey jacket at his party's manifesto launch in March

    • A woman with braided hair wearing a green blazer looks to the side. She appears to be in a crowd, with people and signs blurred in the background.

    • Birmingham skyline showing high-rise buildings. in the foreground is building work as part of the HS2 project

    • A headshot of Tina Ion. She has long brown hair and is wearing red lipstick.

    • A treated image of a polling station station with a dog sitting beside the sign, wearing a union jack bandana.

    • Sir Keir Starmer

    • Sign saying polling place and way in. There is a man with grey hair and wearing shorts walking into a building. |He is passing a woman with a stick who has just come out

      • US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, wearing a blue suit jacket, purple and blue tie, and a white dress shirt, stands beside a logo for the Pentagon as he looks downward.

      • Green Party candidate Leon Brown he has short brown hair and beard and is wearing a green jumper and is standing in front of Cleethorpes Pier