Rishi Sunak chose to announce the general election outside Downing ... Even the most meticulous planning can’t prevent some silly photos from slipping through the net, however (Aaron Chown/PA) ...
The PA news agency’s photographers provided unrivalled coverage of the world of politics this year as these first rate images ...
And perhaps the most memorable of all came at the very start when then prime minister Rishi Sunak, drenched in rain, announced from a wet Downing Street that the UK would go to the polls on July 4.