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Various newspapers, organisations and individuals endorsed parties or individual candidates for the 2024 United Kingdom general election.

Endorsements for parties

Newspapers and magazines

National daily newspapers

Newspaper Endorsement Notes Ref
Daily Mirror Labour Party [1]
Daily Star Count Binface [2]
The Daily Telegraph Conservative Party [3]

Endorsements from individuals

Conservative Party

Green Party

Labour Party

Businesspeople
Politicians
Other celebrities and public figures

Reform UK

Endorsements from organisations

Labour Party

Endorsements in individual constituencies

East of England

For Tarek Javed (independent):

For Khalid Abu-Tayyem (Workers Party of Britain):

For Nigel Farage (Reform UK)

For Attiq Malik (independent):

For James Bagge (Independent)

For Khalid Chohan (Workers Party of Britain):

For Adrian Ramsay (Green Party)

East Midlands

For Alex Stephenson (Reform UK):

For Chris Williamson (Workers Party of Britain):

For Claudia Webbe (independent):

For Shockat Adam (independent):

For Paris Ghazni (Workers Party of Britain):

For Abdul Butt (independent):

Greater London

For Ajmal Masroor (independent):

For Faiza Shaheen (independent):

For Rajiv Sinha (Green):

For Peter Underwood (Green):

For Richard Howard (Lib Dem

For Jahir Hussain (Lib Dem):

For Margaret Mullane (Labour):

For Sameh Akram Habeeb (Workers Party of Britain):

For Darshan Singh Azad (Workers Party of Britain):

For Tahir Mirza (independent):

For Ertan Karpazli (independent):

For Amrit Mann (Workers Party of Britain):

For Sarah Hoyle (Lib Dem):

For Diane Abbott (Labour):

For Sabira Lakha (independent):

For Pamela Fitzpatrick (independent):

For John McDonnell (Labour):

For Andrew Feinstein (independent):

For Leanne Mohamad (independent):

For Noorjahan Begum (independent):

For Jeremy Corbyn (independent):

For Carne Ross (Green):

For Joseph Powell (Labour):

For Shanell Johnson (independent):

For Apsana Begum (Labour):

For Karl Vidol (independent):

For Omar Faruk (independent):

For Fiona Lali (independent):

For Scott Ainslie (Green):

For Nandita Lal (independent):

For Ian Rex-Hawkes (Lib Dem):

For Imran Arshad (Workers Party of Britain):

For Sophia Naqvi (independent):

Northern Ireland

For John Ross (Traditional Unionist Voice):

For David Clarke (Traditional Unionist Voice):

For Claire Hanna (SDLP):

For Sammy Wilson (Democratic Unionist Party):

For Allister Kyle (Traditional Unionist Voice):

For Diana Armstrong (Ulster Unionist Party):

For Ian Paisley Jnr (Democratic Unionist Party):

For Alex Easton (independent):

For Stephen Farry (Alliance):

North East England

For Rod Liddle (SDP):

For Yvonne Ridley (independent):

North West England

For Aroma Hassan (Workers Party of Britain):

For Jo Bird (Green):

For Adnan Hussain (independent):

For Craig Murray (Workers Party of Britain):

For Chris Webb (Labour):

For Rebecca Forrest (Lib Dem):

For Gordon Birtwistle (Lib Dem):

For Mark Alcock (Lib Dem):

For John Stevenson (Conservative):

For Connor Naismith (Labour):

For Shabir Faizal (Green):

For Sam Gorst (Liverpool Community Independents):

For Ann San (independent):

For Ekua Bayunu (Green):

For Richard Kilpatrick (Lib Dem):

For Zaffar Iqbal (independent):

For Michael Lavalette (independent):

For George Galloway (Workers Party of Britain):

For Sean Halsall (independent):

For Ayesha Khan (Workers Party of Britain):

For Khalila Chaudry (Workers Party of Britain):

For Nigel Hennerley (Green):

Scotland

For Brian Leishman (Labour):

For Naz Anis-Miah (SNP):

For Chris Stephens (SNP):

For Angus Brendan MacNeil (independent):

South East England

For Tanushka Marah (independent):

For George Wright (independent):

For Jabu Nala-Hartley (independent):

For Azhara Chohan (independent):

South West England

For Carla Denyer (Green Party of England and Wales):

For Steve Gower (Workers Party of Britain):

Wales

For Irfan Latif (Lib Dem):

For Sharifah Rahman (Plaid Cymru, support withdrawn by party after close of nominations[68]):

For Pippa Bartolotti (independent):

For Gwyn Williams (Plaid Cymru):

West Midlands

For Ian Garrett (Lib Dem):

For Ammar Warraich (independent):

For Mohammad Hafeez (independent):

For James Giles (Workers Party of Britain):

For Akhmed Yakoob (independent):

For Ayoub Khan (independent):

For Kamel Hawwash (independent):

For Jody McIntyre (Workers Party of Britain):

For Dave Nellist (TUSC):

For Zarah Sultana (Labour):

For Ellie Chowns (Green Party of England and Wales):

South Shropshire

For Matthew Green (Liberal Democrats):

Liz Hyder, author

For Navid Kaleem (independent):

For Alan Adams (Reform UK):

For Aftab Nawaz (independent):

For Parmjit Singh Gill (Lib Dem):

For Zahid Shah (independent):

Yorkshire and the Humber

For Tom Gordon (Lib Dem):

For Andrew Cooper (Green):

For Vaz Shabir (Workers Party of Britain):

For Shaz Saleem (independent):

For Owais Rajput (Workers Party of Britain):

For Dawud Islam (Workers Party of Britain):

For Ed Carlisle (Green):

For Christine Gilligan Kubo (Green):

For Arnold Warneken (Green):

For Luke Charters (Labour):

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