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  1. Campaigners from both sides of the debate protest outside Parliament in June 2025, while MPs debate the bill in the House of Commons. One woman holds a pink placard reading: "Let us choose. Legalise assisted dying". Three people wearing white masks and medical gowns holds placards reading: "Don't make doctors killers" and "Protect our NHS from becoming the national suicide service".

  2. Zack Polanski, Leader of the Green Party, and Hannah Spencer, Green Party MP for Gorton & Denton, attend a local election campaign event in Levenshulme on April 23, 2026 in Manchester, England.

  3. A split screen with Sarah Smith on the left and Donald Trump on the right.

  4. Keir Starmer is gesticulating with both hands held up in front of him while responding to a question. He is wearing a dark navy shirt and suit jacket. The sky is bright blue behind him.

  5. A stock image shows a Reform Party logo on a rosette on someone's chest. It is light blue, and the logo is of a white arrow with test that reads: "Reform UK"

  6. Rhun ap Iorwerth being interviewed in a Radio Wales studio, behind a microphone with an orange foam cover displaying the BBC Radio Wales logo. He is gesturing with his hand and wearing a pair of headphones over one ear.

  7. A man in a black blazer and white shirt looks towards a camera while standing in front of a dark green painted wall.

  8. Hillsborough Law NOW campaign banner

  9. Cabinet Office permanent secretary Cat Little speaks to camera while sitting in the hearing giving evidence with others sitting behind her.

  10. Michelle O'Neill, with shoulder length blonde hair, wearing a white top and a red suit jacket. She has one hand raised.

  11. Woman puts up a polling station sign.

  12. Graphic with the words “Scotland Policy Guide” in bold white text on a dark purple background. To the right, a stack of paper is shown with the Scottish flag shown on the top piece.

  13. Graphic with the words “Wales Policy Guide” in bold white text on a dark purple background. To the right, a stack of paper is shown with the Welsh flag shown on the top piece.

  14. Jagtar Singh Johal being escorted to a court in Ludhiana on 24 November 2017. He is wearing a dark blue hooded top with the hood up. Two men are in the foreground, one in a uniform and ther othey in a grey jacket, and there are a number of people in the background.

  15. A man tanned smiling at the camera wearing aviator sunglasses a yellow Dsquared2 baseball cap and electric blue jacket and black T-shirt. He has a trimmed black beard. He is sat near a swimming pool which is out of focus behind him.

  16. Morgan McSweeney

  17. Sir Keir Starmer leaving Downing Street, with his head bowed

  18. A man with grey hair and glasses stood outside in front of coloured houses.

  19. A red sign, with white writing saying 'election nominations open today' alongside an arrow pointing to the right. It placed outside a building.

  20. Prof Peter Stead speaking into a microphone wearing a black dinner jacket, white shirt and black tie, with the beginning of the sentence Peter Stead President of in the blurred blue background behind him.

  21. A photograph of the wreck of the Chinook helicopter, which had crashed in Scotland. It is on a large mound of grass, with police tape placed around the crash site.

  22. A female nurse in blue scrubs speaks to a female patient lying in a hospital bed.

  23. Mike Mackrory, a man in his 70s, is smiling at the camera with an out of focus council building behind him.

  24. A blonde woman standing, looking past the camera. There is a metal statue over her right shoulder holding a yellow flower.