General election live: Polls open across UK as voting begins in general election

The BBC, like other broadcasters, isn’t allowed to report details of campaigning or election issues while polls are open on the day of the general election.

Today, we won’t report on any of the election campaigns from 06:00 BST until polls close at 22:00 BST on TV, radio or bbc.co.uk, or on social media and other channels.

However, online sites don’t have to remove archived reports, including, for instance, programmes on iPlayer.

The lists of candidates, as well as the manifesto guides, remain available online during polling day.

Coverage of what’s happening on the day will usually be restricted to uncontroversial factual accounts, such as the appearance of politicians at polling stations or the weather.

It’ll tend to focus on giving information that will help voters with the process of going to polling stations.

You can read more about this here.