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  1. The front entrance to a prison with a Barlinnie sign and cars parked outside

  2. A composite image. Mel Stride on the left in a suit and tie. Dame Priti Patel wears white.

  3. Stuart Andrew, the Conservative MP for Daventry posing for his official Parliament picture. He is looking directly at the camera and smiling. He is wearing a blue suit jacket with a pale blue shirt underneath and a blue, red and white striped tie.

  4. A man in a white shirt.

  5. A prison guard in a white shirt and black trousers walks down the corridor of a prison with cream walls and railings.

  6. Person standing in front of shelves stocked with food and household products, holding a large mock receipt displaying the text “SNP” and “Total Price: Capped.” Rows of canned goods, sauces, packaged foods, and bottled water are visible in the background.

  7. Sir James Cleverly, wearing a dark suit and tie, speaks into a handheld microphone at an event.

  8. A computer generated artist's impression of the Western Link. It's an aerial view of a sweeping highway bridge crossing a meandering river through expansive green countryside, with scattered trees, open fields, rural buildings, and intersecting roads stretching across a sunlit landscape.

  9. Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, Priti Patel, attends a panel discussion with Tony Abbott, former Australian PM on day three of the Conservative party conference at Manchester Central Convention Complex on October 07, 2025

  10. In a primary school classroom, two young boys in red tops with short hair stick their hands up in the air in the foreground, while their classmates who are clustered in front of them sitting down also stick their hands up in the air. An out-of-focus teacher with blonde hair and a grey top in front of a whiteboard also has her hands up and is smiling at the children in front of her. The classroom has blue walls and lots of posters on the walls and white school tables moved out of the way in the right hand of the image.

  11. Michelle ONeilll has blonde hair, a red jacket and white tshirt

  12. A young man poses with his face resting on his hand in a casual manner

  13. First Minister John Swinney during a visit to officially open the new GP walk-in service at Randolph Wemyss Memorial Hospital in Leven, Fife - A person in a suit and tie stands beside an NHS Fife information board promoting a GP walk-in service for urgent, non-life-threatening health problems. The poster explains who can use the service and outlines suitable and unsuitable conditions for treatment.

  14. Andy Burnham, wearing glasses, a suit jacket and a blue tie, speaks

  15. James Cleverly wears a suit and holds a microphone

  16. Councillor Steve Ricketts is looking serious. He has a shaven head and is wearing a black jacket, white shirt, black tie and a cerise halyard. There is a Reform UK badge pinned to his lapel.

  17. Andy Burnham wearing a dark navy suit jacket, white shirt and blue tie and dark-rimmed glasses - a crowd of people, not in focus, are behind him

  18. Karl Johnson

  19. Side-by-side portrait images showing two people. The left image features a woman with long light-coloured hair wearing a patterned high-neck top; the right image shows a man in a blue suit and tie against a plain grey backdrop.

  20. A man in a black and orange chequered shirt with bald hair stands in front of water, in a composite plit image next to a man holding a phone with a UK government emergency alert on it.

  21. A huge pile of broken fridges is pictured, with white doors removed from some units.

  22. Andy Burnham

  23. Andy Burnham looks pensive as he puts his hand to his chin and looks sideways.

  24. A headshot of Peter Reeve, who is smiling at the camera while standing next to a grassy field, and wearing a cream open-necked shirt.