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Jeremy Hunt: Liz Truss economic plans were ‘good thing to aim for’

Exclusive: Leaked recordings reveal chancellor ‘trying to achieve some of the same things’ as former prime minister

The Guardian - UK

Keir Starmer ‘not immune’ to argument for scrapping two-child benefit cap

Labour leader says projected rise in number of children hit by policy is ‘powerful’ reason to ditch it but refuses to set timeline

The Guardian - UK

Nigel Farage pledges to run for PM in 2029 as Reform manifesto slated by economists

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has sights on 2029 election as he launches manifesto aimed at Tory voters but had his policies trashed by economists and financial experts

The Independent UK

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London snatches the crown from Paris as Europe’s largest stock market after Emmanuel Macron’s snap election sends investors into a spin

London lost its position as the leading stock market last time following political chaos under then Prime Minister Liz Truss.

Fortune

Tactical voting could defeat Tories in once safe seats, campaigners say

Senior Tories such as Liz Truss and Jeremy Hunt could be for chop as well as once safe seats such as Maidenhead

The Guardian - UK

Emmanuel Macron gives France its own ‘Liz Truss moment’

City Comment: The French financial establishment is asking whether it’s in the middle of ‘un moment Liz Truss’ after Macron’s shock election decision

Evening Standard

Thatcherism, austerity, Brexit, Liz Truss... goodbye and good riddance to all that

For 45 years, Britain has been blighted by Conservative ideologies that promised a path to prosperity, but achieved nothing of the sort

The Guardian - UK

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Playwright James Graham: ‘We’re still living in Thatcher’s country’

As his stage adaptation of ‘Boys from the Blackstuff’ transfers from the National to the West End, Britain’s leading political playwright – and busiest writer in the country – talks politics, football, Harvey Weinstein and work addiction with Ellie Harrison

The Independent UK

How to understand the 2024 general election? These books will help

Nigel Farage is back, the Tories are in freefall and everyone’s shouting about tax. If you want to read up on the choices facing voters on 4 July – and better understand how we got here in the first place – Jessie Thompson has your ultimate general election reading guide

The Independent UK

Tories and Labour on course for lowest share of the vote since 1945

Poll reveals historically low support for the big two, with smaller parties up by five points

The Guardian - UK

French stock market plummets amid fears of far right election win

CAC 40 index has its worst week since March 2022 after Macron’s decision to call snap elections

The Guardian - UK

It’s the Sunak syndrome: you’re richer than the king but only ‘pass’ at being posh. That’s the class system for you

Like the characters in Ripley and Saltburn, the perfectly well-to-do PM longs to be even better-to-do, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

The Guardian - UK

Wes Streeting defends Labour's manifesto and likens Rishi Sunak's to 'Liz Truss on steroids'

Shadow health secretary also slams ‘crocodile tears’ of private schools over Labour VAT plan

Evening Standard

Sunak’s Tories hit Truss level of all-time low support as Brexit voters turn to Farage’s Reform

Three new polls have made dire reading for Rishi Sunak suggesting that Nigel Farage’s Reform may be passing the Tories

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Evening Standard

OPINION - On economic growth, Keir Starmer sounds more like Liz Truss than Jeremy Corbyn

I have no ideological aversion to defences of Liz Truss. We all have our foibles, after all. But the one argument I won't accept is that, in going gung-ho for growth, she at least identified the right problem. I mean, pointing out that the British economy has been in a…

The Guardian - UK

Amid the Tories’ fiscal disasters, one change has quietly warped how we see public spending for ever

The Tory-created OBR buoyed David Cameron but sunk Liz Truss. After the election, it may become Labour’s problem, says economics professor Jonathan Portes

The Guardian - UK

‘Cosplaying Liz Truss’: Rishi Sunak condemned for £17bn tax giveaway

Critics say funding of Tory manifesto’s policies is ‘implausible’ and they would mainly benefit wealthier voters

Evening Standard

Rishi Sunak 'cosplaying Liz Truss' and will not lower National Insurance, Rachel Reeves says

Labour has responded to the Tory general election manifesto

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The Independent UK

Justice secretary’s fight to protect the European Convention on Human Rights in Sunak’s Tory manifesto

Exclusive: Recording reveals justice secretary Alex Chalk’s bid to stop the Tories ditching the European Convention on Human Rights

Crikey

Sunak bombs on the beaches of Normandy, but why?

Did a man who has downplayed his heritage find it impossible to consent to European triumphalism?

Evening Standard

How Holly Valance became the darling of the far-Right as husband becomes Reform treasurer

The former singer and Neighbours star and her husband, Nick Candy, are becoming increasingly important players in Right-wing politics. Emma Loffhagen and Katie Strick chart the singer’s surprising political trajectory

The Guardian - UK

Labour election victory would be ‘net positive’ for markets, says JP Morgan

Win would benefit banks, builders and supermarkets, say analysts, showing appeal of ‘centrist platform’ for City

The Guardian - UK

Election diary: Nigel Farage snaps his fingers and his devoted sidekick steps aside

Richard Tice hands over the reins of the Reform party after single-handedly fronting, funding and running it until the moment anyone actually cared

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s not a game for us’: aboard the Labour battle bus with Angela Rayner

The party’s deputy leader, putting tax furore behind her, is taking her fighting spirit on a 5,000-mile campaign tour, armed with a fridge and a Liz Truss-lookalike lettuce

Evening Standard

Mordaunt calls Sunak D-Day decision ‘completely wrong’ and clashes with Rayner on £2000 tax claim in fiery BBC election debate

Taxes, immigration and NHS dominate heated seven-way debate

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