Dog-whistle politics: pets at polling stations – in pictures
Voting has been taking place across England to elect local councillors, mayors and police commissioners – with residents often taking along their canine companions
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A dog yawns outside a polling station near Battersea Power Station during local elections in London
Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters
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Labour’s candidate to be re-elected as mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, with his wife, Saadiya Khan, and their dog, Luna, at St Alban’s church, south London
Photograph: Yui Mok/PA
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Outside a polling station at St Paul’s church in the Jewellery Quarter in Birmingham, England
Photograph: Anthony Devlin/Getty Images
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Enzo the dog waits at a polling station in London
Photograph: Neil Hall/EPA
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Dogs outside the polling station at the Salt House in West Bay, Dorset
Photograph: Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images
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A dog outside a polling station for the mayoral election in London
Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty Images
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A guide dog in training waits outside Weston Park Museum polling station in Sheffield
Photograph: Ryan Browne/Rex/Shutterstock
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A voter arrives with his dog at a polling station in Wimbledon, south-west London
Photograph: Amer Ghazzal/Rex/Shutterstock
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The current Tees Valley mayor Ben Houchen’s dog, Boris, waits in Yarm, North Yorkshire
Photograph: Ian Forsyth/Getty Images
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Cinna, an eight-year-old rescue dog from Greece, arrives with its owners at St Alban’s Church, south London
Photograph: Yui Mok/PA
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Dogs outside a polling station at the Solaris Centre in Blackpool
Photograph: Jason Cairnduff/Reuters
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A dog at Bank View Cafe polling station at Langsett, Stocksbridge, Sheffield
Photograph: Ryan Browne/Rex/Shutterstock
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A woman photographs her dog before voting at Birmingham Progressive Synagogue
Photograph: Anthony Devlin/Getty Images
