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  1. Michelle O'Neill standing at a green lecturn with a green background behind her. She is motioning with her hands. She is wearing a cream jacket and white shirt. She has blonde hair, tied back.

  2. Donald Trump waves to onlookers from his golf buggy

  3. A side-on shot of Donald Trump and Keir Starmer standing side by side.

  4. Sir Keir Starmer

  5. Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) soldiers march in formation during the annual military parade marking the Iraqi invasion in 1980

  6. People holding signs saying 'kill the bill not the ill' and 'give me choice over my death' stand protesting outdoors in Parliament Square in early June 2025.

  7. Former UK ambassador to the United States, Lord Peter Mandelson, is pictured as he walks his dog near his residence in central London on April 20, 2026

  8. Supporters and opponents of assisted dying hold placards outside Parliament in June 2025. Supporters hold pink placards reading "Campaign for dignity in dying", while opponents, some wearing white medical coats and holding mock syringes, hold signs reading "Don't make doctors killers".

  9. Colin Kennedy looking at the camera. He has brown hair and a beard. He is wearing a navy suit jacket, striped blue and white shirt and a blue and navy striped tie.

  10. Dan Thomas sitting in a radio studio in front of a microphone, which has an orange cover.

  11. A graphical image of man wearing a flat cap and a waxed jacket walks past a gate with Polling Station sign on it

  12. Jason Barker, a bearded man wearing glasses, standing in front of trees

  13. A woman in a pink top and long brown hair next to a circus performer in black tuxedo spinning plates

  14. A bus lane is seen in London.

  15. Sarah Smith has shoulder-length blonde hair and is wearing a green jacket. She looks directly at the camera.

  16. BBC News' Meleri Grug Williams, a young woman with long brown hair, looks down the camera with a shopping street and castle archway in the background.

  17. 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".

  18. Welsh flags and people in the centre of Cardiff's St Mary Street

  19. Party representatives - The Conservatives - Paul Davies Reform UK - Helen Jenner Labour - Eluned Morgan The Green Party - Tessa Marshall Plaid Cymru - Rhun ap Iorwerth Liberal Democrats - Jane Dodds

  20. Lyndon has dark grey wavy hair and wears a dark grey suit, light blue shirt, and a teal tie with a Reform UK rosette on his left lapel. He has both of this thumbs up celebrating with other people behind him in the counting hall.

  21. 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"

  22. A man in a boxing gym wearing black boxing gloves and a grey hoodie takes aim at a punching bag as another man to the side claps in encouragement.

  23. Steve Morphew is wearing a grey hoody with a yellow horizontal stripe across the chest. Beneath the top he is wearing a checked shirt.