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Sunak and Starmer’s first TV debate: a tetchy PMQs where no one dared mention the F-word

As it turned out, after stealing the limelight on the day, the man most notable by his absence at the first leaders’ TV debate of the 2024 election campaign was never even mentioned by name. Only in his closing statement did the prime minister find it necessary to aim an…

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Pollster John Curtice’s six types of voter, from Middle Britons to Urban Progressives – which are you?

Professor of politics says the electorate is ‘not just divided between left and right, but also between liberals and authoritarians’

The Independent UK

Inside the spin room: Behind the scenes of the first debate between Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer

The Independent takes you behind the scenes in the so-called spin room where Labour and the Tories sought to convince the travelling press that it was their candidate that won it

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Tory Facebook group members unimpressed by Sunak’s debate performance

Exclusive: Rishi Sunak narrowly won the Yougov poll reacting to the debate but failed to win over many Tory members

The Independent UK

Hostile environment, Brexit and missed targets: 14 years of Tory immigration policy

Migration is a top issue for some voters and candidates in the UK’s general election. The last 14 years of Conservative policy have introduced restrictive policies on both legal and irregular migration. And yet, net migration stands at 685,000, a near historic high.

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Why Nigel Farage’s Reform is a company and not a party - and what that means

Nigel Farage is director and majority shareholder of Reform UK - which he insists will ‘democratise over time’

The Independent UK

Labour and Tories ‘avoiding reality’ of sharp spending cuts after general election, says think-tank

The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) criticised the current fiscal rules which are ‘arbitrary and gameable’

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Labour promises 300,000 extra NHS appointments, scans and operations in London

Wes Streeting has accused the Tories of wrecking the ‘golden inheritance’ in the NHS left by the last Labour Government

Evening Standard

Labour party manifesto: What will be Keir Starmer’s key policies for the general election?

A guide to all the manifesto promises we could expect to see from Labour before July 4

The Independent UK

Sunak was offered a deal to stop Farage and decided to reject it

Exclusive: A late bid was made to broker a deal between Sunak and Reform which could have saved scores of Tory MPs

The Independent UK

The Guardian view on social care: the Lib Dems have a plan. It should be welcomed

After years of broken Tory promises, Sir Ed Davey’s policy of free home visits is a step forward

The Guardian - UK

‘Vile’ … ‘Charismatic’: Clacton voters react to Nigel Farage and his button-pushing rhetoric

Campaign launch for Essex seat reveals people there are as divided about him as anywhere else

The Guardian - UK

How Wes Streeting could clear the NHS waiting list backlog and save money too

Letters: David Hinchliffe on how the party must learn from mistakes in the past to bring down waiting lists. Plus letters from Norman Edwards and Fawzi Ibrahim

The Guardian - UK

Respected think tank says Labour and Tories 'avoiding spending cuts reality'

BOTH Labour and the Conservatives are “avoiding the reality” that their plans lock them into “sharp” spending cuts after the election, a…

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Nigel Farage, the man who wants to be the UK’s answer to Donald Trump

Populist politician who formed anti-EU pact with ruling Conservatives is back to engineer party’s demise

The Independent UK

Nigel Farage could win Reform UK as many as four seats at general election, says YouGov

Exclusive: Nigel Farage’s decision to stand could see Reform compete for seats in several constituencies, says pollster

The Conversation

Why Nigel Farage spent his first campaign speech complaining that young people don’t know about D-day

Nigel Farage is back. The newly appointed leader of the Reform UK party has just announced his intention to run to be the MP for the Essex seaside town of Clacton – the only constituency to have ever elected an MP from Farage’s former party UKIP in a general election.

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UK faces £33bn hole in finances or return to austerity, thinktank says

Labour and the Conservatives want to reduce national debt, but Resolution Foundation says promises ‘detached from reality’

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The Independent UK

Labour expected to drop general election candidate under investigation for alleged sexual harassment

Darren Rodwell, Labour’s candidate for Barking, has been accused of ‘inappropriate touching’ of a woman at an event last month

The Guardian - UK

Campaign catchup: Debate looming, Farage soaking, Whitby Woman rebelling

In today’s newsletter: Why you shouldn’t expect fireworks from Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer tonight – and how Nigel Farage got covered in milkshake

The Independent UK

The Thick of It creator Armando Iannucci compares Tory plan to his episode ‘The Rise of the Nutters’

‘I swear Armando Iannucci is going to demand a licensing fee for this Tory election campaign,’ an amused fan wrote on X

The National (Scotland)

Rachel Reeves denies Anas Sarwar 'blew apart' her fiscal rules in debate

LABOUR have been accused of “not being honest” about public spending cuts – after Anas Sarwar was accused of re-writing the party’s economic…

Evening Standard

'Sunak’s worst nightmare,' as poll of polls shows Labour lead stuck at 21 points and now Farage storms in

COMMENTARY: The fundamental message from the polls so far is that Labour are ahead by a wide margin and not much appears to be changing

Evening Standard

OPINION - A policy-lite election campaign is storing up problems for the winner

James Harding tells a story so good I'm going to share it for a second time. About 15 years ago, after the prime minister had delivered a party conference speech, the then-editor of The Times turned to some of his columnists and leader writers to ask what they thought the…

The Independent UK

Sunak and Starmer prepare for their first debate as disruptor Farage roils UK election waters

The two main contenders to be Britain’s next prime minister are set to face off in a televised debate

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