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The Guardian - UK
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Polly Toynbee

I’ll welcome a Labour victory and a brighter future, but Britain deserves a better election than this

Rishi Sunak launches the Conservative campaign bus in Redcar on 1 June 2024.
Rishi Sunak launches the Conservative campaign bus in Redcar on 1 June 2024. Photograph: Carl Court/AFP/Getty Images

Another month to go: can we bear it? Brainless dishonesty, puerile insults, false accusations, the whole charade takes us for idiots. The more desperate they get, the lower the Tories drag down the tone of debate.

The week begins “woke”, with Kemi Badenoch challenging Labour to follow her into an anti-trans gesture to change the Equality Act to something the law already broadly does. It looks glaringly empty in the worsening cost of living crisis, when an extra 100,000 households will see their mortgages shoot up between now and election day.

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