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UK's Labour Pitches For Power With 'Wealth Creation' Pledge

Britain's Labour party launched a "manifesto for wealth creation" Thursday, pledging to get the economy firing again if it wins power in next month's election after 14 years in opposition.

International Business Times

Labour pledges to ‘get Britain building again’

The Labour manifesto document said the party ‘will not be afraid to make full use of intervention powers to build the houses we need’.

The Independent UK

Happy Pride month to everyone! Except the landlords and asset managers bleeding dry queer culture

Asset managers are hoovering up Britain’s LGBTQ+ venues, with potentially disastrous consequences for the gay scene, says senior data analyst Adam Almeida

The Guardian - UK

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UK Labour leader Keir Starmer says he'll end the era of 'gestures and gimmicks' if he wins power

The left-of-center politician aiming to become Britain’s prime minister in three weeks’ time is promising to lead a government that’s both “pro-business and pro-worker” and restore stability after years of economic and political turmoil

The Independent UK

The UK Green Party struggles to be heard in an election where climate change is on the back burner

There’s lots of talk of change in Britain’s election campaign, but little talk about climate change

The Independent UK

Labour manifesto: Keir Starmer vows to 'fire' up Britain so children are better off than their parents

Labour will be the party of wealth creation and economic growth, he promises

Evening Standard

How do you know the Tories are finished? There’s not a single person left to defend their record

This stretch of Conservative rule has been so destructive that even allies have called it ‘the worst government ever’, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

The Guardian - UK

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G7 summit: Biden says lasting peace for Ukraine must be underwritten by Kyiv’s ability to defend itself – as it happened

Joe Biden and Volodymyr Zelenskiy are holding a joint press conference, just over two hours behind schedule

The Guardian - US

‘I thought it would be a tinpot movie’: myths and reality of Chariots of Fire and the 1924 Olympics

The Oscar-winning film took plenty of liberties with the truth but remains one of Britain’s favourite movies

The Guardian - UK

The era of reckless Tory economics is over. As your chancellor, I would make every penny count

Labour would restore economic growth, and crack down on the waste and fraud that ran rampant under the Tories, says the shadow chancellor, Rachel Reeves

The Guardian - UK

White beaches, dolphins, seahorses: I sailed away from Britain, but now I love its coasts more than ever

Sometimes you need to leave to really see the place you came from. Years after sailing solo to Greece, every time I come back I’m astounded by what I find

The Guardian - UK

‘I went a bit crazy’: Mo Farah on rebellion, love, ruthlessness – and being forced to live a lie

In the first of a series of interviews with remarkable Olympians, Britain’s most celebrated track athlete opens up about his relentless spirit, his disgraced ex-coach and the terrible secret he kept for 30 years

The Guardian - UK

Britain’s welfare bill to soar by £60bn over next four years as parties commit more money for pensioners

Pension commitments and a sickly population mean that by 2029 Britain’s welfare bill will be increasing by £20bn a year, analysis by Resolution Foundation predicts

The Independent UK

Keely Hodgkinson fights through illness to strike European 800m gold

Keely Hodgkinson battled a scratchy throat and the sniffles to retain her 800m title at the European Athletics Championships

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Ron Ayers obituary

Engineer and aerodynamicist involved in land-speed record-breaking cars and guided missile design

Evening Standard

You’re welcome here: London universities launch campaign to reassure foreign students amid visa 'crackdown'

Higher education institutions in the capital warn trust in Britain as a place to study and carry out research has been ‘significantly dented’ by recent changes to immigration rules

The Guardian - UK

Why is nobody talking about Brexit in the UK election?

The once defining issue in British politics has barely featured in this summer’s campaign

The Guardian - UK

Scattered by Aamna Mohdin review – the road to survival

A journalist’s exploration of her family’s chaotic journey from Somalia is startling in its intimacy and honesty

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Rome 2024: Great Britain target gold medal rush on final day as Daryll Neita has shot at redemption

Dina Asher-Smith, Keely Hodgkinson and more can send GB and Northern Ireland shooting up the medal standings

The Guardian - UK

There is no recovery for the Conservative party until it purges itself of Reform-lite ideas

This cheap politics of envy distracts from Britain’s most pressing issue: inequality, says former Tory MP Justine Greening

The Guardian - UK

Sixteen years for stealing a flower pot: the film about the IPP jail sentence ‘designed to bury you alive’

Britain’s Forgotten Prisoners is a devastating documentary about the ‘public protection’ sentences that can amount to whole-of-life terms for relatively minor offences. Film-maker Martin Read explains his seven-year quest for justice

International Business Times

UK Economy Stagnates Heading Into General Election

Britain's economy stagnated in April after emerging from recession in the first quarter of the year, official data showed Wednesday ahead of the country's general election next month.

Evening Standard

Tories appear to admit election defeat as Cabinet minister pleads: Don't give Keir Starmer a 'super majority'

Defence Secretary Grant Shapps argued if Labour gets a majority ‘of the size of Blairs or even bigger’ it would place Britain in a ‘dangerous place’

The Conversation

Trust hits new low: 45% of people think politicians put party before country

There is an air of deja vu about this election. Trust and confidence in how Britain is governed is as low as it has ever been – just as it was shortly before the last election five years ago.

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on the Conservative manifesto: an exercise in fiscal fantasy and denial

Editorial: Rishi Sunak’s insistent repetition of the word ‘plan’ doesn’t compensate for an absence of serious engagement with the challenges Britain faces

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