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Sunak and Starmer clash over gambling scandal in final election debate

The Labour leader said placing bets on the future of the country showed the ‘wrong instinct’

The Guardian - UK · Jun 26, 2024

UK must stop ‘walking on eggshells’ over post-Brexit deal, says BCC chief

British Chambers of Commerce director general calls on politicians to improve ties with EU and strike better deal

The Guardian - UK · Jun 26, 2024

Met police to take bigger role in investigating election betting scandal

A number of political figures have been accused of placing suspicious bets in the lead-up to the election

The Guardian - UK · Jun 26, 2024

Up close with Keir Starmer / Behind the Russia-North Korea pact: inside the 28 June Guardian Weekly

The man who would be Britain’s next PM. Plus: why Putin and Kim want to be new best friends

The Guardian - UK · Jun 26, 2024

Brexit may have felt absent from this election – but it will still define it

Those who voted leave still feel ignored and marginalised. The pressure will be on for Labour to boost growth and narrow regional divides, says the Guardian’s economics editor Larry Elliott

The Guardian - UK · Jun 26, 2024

Is Jeremy Hunt heading for his Portillo moment? On campaign trail as chancellor fights to keep Surrey blue

The chancellor is plotting a narrow course to victory in the ‘true-blue’ seat but, on a sunny Tuesday afternoon, Archie Mitchell struggled to see how he can hold on

The Independent UK · Jun 26, 2024

Tory candidates beg voters: back me, not Sunak

Exclusive: Tory candidates try to separate themselves from Rishi Sunak in desperate bid to get elected

The Independent UK · Jun 26, 2024

Votes at 16 and decent citizenship education could create a politically aware generation

Keir Starmer has pledged that a Labour government would introduce voting for 16- and 17-year-olds in Westminster elections.

The Conversation · Jun 26, 2024

Election gambling scandal: bad culture will kill your organisation – you can bet on it

Just as people go bankrupt in two ways – gradually, then suddenly, as Ernest Hemingway famously put it – so organisations corrode morally, first bit by bit and then all in a rush. We are seeing this play out for the Conservative party in the final week of the UK’s…

The Conversation · Jun 26, 2024

Why is Nigel Farage taking on the Daily Mail?

While we might expect a Labour leader to feud with the rightwing Daily Mail during an election campaign, it is a somewhat surprising turn of events for Nigel Farage, leader of Reform UK.

The Conversation · Jun 26, 2024