Political editor Paul Francis examines whether a town that has voted Conservative for more than 40 years could be persuaded to change allegiances.

With one week to go until the general election, readers give their views on the choices on offer on polling day in this week’s letters to the editor.

With just a week to go until we go to the polls, we look at how the parties’ promises on transport could impact Kent.

More than 250 people gathered to hear from the candidates vying to be the first MP in a new constituency.

This election, many young people will vote for the first time. But politicians aren’t doing enough to win their support, argues one student leader.

A head of a sought-after grammar is calling for a secondary school to be opened in the area following a glut of house-building.

An ‘unexplained’ fire started close to the offices of a Tory election candidate.

Around 300 people came out in the heat to listen to Reform UK’s new leader Nigel Farage as he visited Kent.

Kent County Council’s leader has denied the authority is looking at closings tips and libraries despite high-placed sources saying it definitely is.

A Tory candidate was empty-chaired at a hustings in her constituency, while a Reform party hopeful was replaced with a pinecone.

First the D-Day debacle and now a betting scandal - political editor Paul Francis looks at a Conservative election campaign plagued with setbacks.

Education in Kent is facing a crisis on a number of fronts - but how is each party promising to solve it at the general election?

A Conservative candidate says it is ‘fanciful’ to suggest he is antisemitic following a backlash to an image he posted on his social media.

While many were crowded around watching the England game, our reporter was at a general election hustings event where politics was the hot topic…

Senior leaders at cash-strapped Kent County Council anticipate ‘no help’ from a new Labour government.

A Conservative vying to be a Kent MP is under fire for posting what Labour says is an antisemitic image on social media.

A multimillion-pound bid to relieve jams heading into one of Kent’s biggest towns has ceased due to a lack of funding.

One year after the Green Party took control of its first Kent council, we speak to the authority's leader about his first 12 months in charge.

On the Kent Politics Podcast this week we talk with Labour’s Sevenoaks candidate who tells us what issues residents tell her about on the doorstep.

A Green Party candidate is ‘disappointed’ after several of her election posters were defaced with pro-Reform slogans.