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Defending champions Australia are undoubtedly the favourites, while India's rapid improvement over the last two years sees them as the closest challengers, especially on home soil.

It is very early days, of course, but this felt like a timely test of Arsenal's credentials as title challengers that the Gunners found a way to pass.

Six candidates have officially entered the field to unseat Robert Luna, with the early challengers slinging barbs, probing the incumbent’s political weaknesses and setting the stage for a heated campaign in the coming months.

"We can be real challengers in the elections ahead and we can actually stop Reform and their dangerous and unpatriotic approach to governing the country."

The Conservative leader lost his long-held seat in the April election to a Liberal challenger and was forced to spend his summer seeking a path back to parliament.