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Jeremy Hunt admits his Surrey seat could be won or lost by just 1,500 votes

The Godalming and Ash parliamentary seat is a key target for the Liberal Democrats who are aiming to demolish the Conservative “blue wall” in southern England

The Independent UK

The turbulent career of Diane Abbott: from first black female MP to shunned by Labour

Will she, won’t she? The Hackney MP is causing ruptures within the Labour party. Robbie Griffiths charts her remarkable — and often rocky — political career

Evening Standard

General election 2024: what is a 'Portillo moment' and could Jeremy Hunt suffer one next?

Chancellor vows to fight for the ‘blue wall brick by brick’ to avoid a repeat of an infamous shock result for the Tories in 1997

Evening Standard

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Aberdeen South: Stephen Flynn has secret weapon to help win his Westminster seat

MOST landmark “change” elections feature a major symbolic scalp. For Labour in 1997, it was their defeat of Michael Portillo in Enfield…

The National (Scotland)

2024 general election: Lib Dems target Jeremy Hunt for their own Portillo moment in the Blue Wall

Labour has its own targets in the Home Counties including Grant Shapps

Evening Standard

Great Coastal Railway Journeys season 3 guide: episodes, destinations and everything you need to know

Great Coastal Railway Journeys season 3 sees Michael Portillo heading off on another railway adventure along the shores of the British Isles and beyond.

WhatToWatch

Conservative cabinet ministers, look away now: your ‘Portillo moment’ could be on the cards

Two mega-polls suggest that the Tories are heading for a defeat more catastrophic than they experienced in 1997. What if they’re right?

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Of course the ‘revolving door’ for departing MPs has jammed shut – who’d hire them?

Plunging trust in politicians means that Tory MPs about to leave parliament may find the cushy jobs of old hard to come by, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

The Guardian - UK

Great British Railway Journeys season 15: release date, destinations, exclusive interview and everything we know

Great British Railway Journeys season 15 on BBC2 sees politician-turned-presenter Michael Portillo explore Britain’s post-war history by train.

WhatToWatch

What’s nitrogen hypoxia? Alabama carries out Kenneth Smith’s US execution

Smith became first inmate in history to be executed with nitrogen gas.

Al Jazeera

Replacing Westminster gas lamps with LED replicas would be 'cultural vandalism', say Tory MPs

There are almost 100 gas lamps in London which could be replaced with more eco friendly replicas

Evening Standard

Turnip Taliban bid to unseat Liz Truss

Exclusive: Tory rebel and ex-army officer who quit party over her selection as MP set to challenge Ms Truss – as he resigns as deputy lieutenant of Norfolk to mount challenge

The Independent UK

Six decades after original ‘Dog House,’ to-go Portillo’s opens in Rosemont

A drive through-only Portillo’s is now open at Mannheim and Higgins roads in Rosemont. It’s the chain’s second drive-through-only outlet.

Chicago Sun-Times

Bill Bailey’s Australian Adventure review – you don’t get this level of strangeness from Michael Portillo

From ferociously singing sweary shanties with locals to rubbing his face against old stones, Bailey’s jaunt Down Under is extremely eccentric – and all the better for it

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Hannah Lowery obituary

Other lives: Archivist who spent a quarter of a century at Bristol University, where she expanded its collection of documents

The Independent UK

Jeremy Hunt ‘to offer support for first-time buyers’ ahead of autumn Budget

It comes as the chancellor was forced to deny rumours he is planning to quit as an MP at the next general election because he fears losing his seat

The Guardian - UK

Jeremy Hunt ‘set to quit as MP’ in fear of a Portillo moment

The chancellor will stand down before the election as likelihood of defeat in new Surrey seat looms, senior Tories say

The Guardian - UK

Labour’s backtracking on casual workers will weaken the rights of all employees

The party wants to look business-friendly but risks condemning even more people to living precariously

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Evening Standard

OPINION - Why Sadiq Khan is pressing ahead with Ulez extension

“Why are you doing this now?“ The greatest moment in election night history (and I’ve recently re-watched a bunch of them, sadly) wasn’t Michael Portillo in 1997 or Peter Mandelson in 2001, but Stephen Kinnock in 2017.

WhatToWatch

TV tonight: Our highlights for Monday, June 19

Litvinenko is just one of the gems on TV tonight.

Evening Standard

OPINION - What I learnt from watching every election night broadcast from 1992

George Costanza, the stocky, balding and painfully insecure anti-hero from the Nineties sitcom, Seinfeld, contended that the lifecycle was backwards.

The Guardian - UK

60 Days on the Estates review – how to make a great show about social housing? Don’t involve Tory MPs

This look at life on two inner-city estates is a gentle, sincere take that sees survivalist Ed Stafford spend three weeks living there. It’s a far cry from the patronising work of Michael Portillo et al

Evening Standard

OPINION - Dominic Raab avoids his ‘Portillo moment’ – by standing down as MP

If I could go back in time to one moment in history, it would be to 20 July 1969 at 21:17 BST, when Neil Armstrong stepped on the surface of the moon. I mean, just look at Walter Cronkite’s face. But given a second whirl in the time machine, I’d…

The Guardian - UK

No 10 rejects claim Sunak ‘dithering’ over whether to order inquiry into claims Braverman broke ministerial code – as it happened

Prime minister’s spokesperson says he is gathering ‘all the facts’ before making a decision

WhatToWatch

Great Coastal Railway Journeys season 2: release date, locations and all we know

Great Coastal Railway Journeys season 2 guide — Michael Portillo gives us the inside track on his new adventures and tells us about his upcoming milestone birthday.

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