Various newspapers, organisations and individuals endorsed parties or individual candidates for the 2024 United Kingdom general election.
Newspaper | Endorsement | Notes | Ref | |
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Daily Express | Conservative Party | [1] | ||
Daily Mail | Conservative Party | Advocates tactical voting for the Conservative Party to ensure it provides an effective opposition to a prospective Labour government. | [2] | |
Daily Mirror | Labour Party | [3] | ||
Daily Star | Count Binface Party | Endorsed "the most sane politician in the UK", Count Binface, who is only standing in Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's constituency of Richmond and Northallerton. | [4] | |
Financial Times | Labour Party | Last backed Labour in 2005. | [5] | |
i | None | Have never endorsed a political party. | [6] | |
Morning Star | None | Advocated for voting against the Conservatives, but did not endorse any specific party. | [7] | |
The Daily Telegraph | Conservative Party | [8] | ||
The Guardian | Labour Party | Advocates tactical voting against the government. | [9] | |
The Independent | Labour Party | [10] | ||
The Sun | Labour Party | Last backed Labour in 2005. Labour Party leader, Keir Starmer responded to the endorsement by saying, "I am delighted to have the support and backing of The Sun" and that it "shows how much this is a changed Labour Party". [11] | [12] | |
The Times | None | Backed Conservatives in 2019. | [13] |
Newspaper | Endorsement | Notes | Link | |
---|---|---|---|---|
The Observer | Labour Party | Last backed Labour in 2015. Advocated tactical voting for the Liberal Democrats "wherever they are best placed to defeat a Conservative opponent". | [14] | |
Sunday Express | Conservative Party | [15] | ||
Sunday Mirror | Labour Party | [16] | ||
The Sun on Sunday | None | Backed Conservatives in 2019. | [17] | |
The Sunday Telegraph | Conservative Party | [18] | ||
Mail on Sunday | Conservative Party | [19] | ||
Sunday People | Labour Party | [20] | ||
The Sunday Times | Labour Party | Last backed Labour in 2001. | [21] |
Publication | Endorsement | Notes | Link | |
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The Economist | Labour Party | Backed Liberal Democrats in 2019 | [22] | |
New Statesman | Labour Party | In addition, "in seats where the Liberal Democrats are the strongest opponent to the Tories, readers should vote tactically." | [23] | |
Socialist Standard | None | Called on voters to write "world socialism" on their ballot | [24] |
Newspaper | Endorsement | Notes | Ref | |
---|---|---|---|---|
City A.M. | None | Advocated for voting against the Conservatives, but did not endorse any specific party. | [25] | |
Evening Standard | Labour Party | Last backed Labour in 2005. | [26] | |
Express and Star | Labour Party | [27] | ||
Liverpool Echo | Labour Party | [28] | ||
The Yorkshire Post | None | "Set out its own manifesto for Yorkshire" | [29] |
Newspaper | Endorsement | Notes | Ref | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Irish News | None | [30] |
Newspaper | Endorsement | Notes | Ref | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Daily Record | Scottish Labour | Last backed Labour in 2010 | [31] | |
The Scotsman | None | [32] | ||
Sunday Mail | Scottish Labour | [33] | ||
The Scottish Sun | Scottish Labour | Last backed Labour in 2005. | [34] |
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