We’re already paying tax on our state pensions Brief letters: Rishi Sunak’s pension pledge | Poor immigration logic | Sir Mark Elder’s last hurrah | Reviving Cockney rhyming slang The Guardian - UK · Jun 11, 2024
Rish!’s bargain-basement manifesto offers anything you want if you just vote Tory Don’t like foreigners? Flights to Rwanda would start in July. Don’t like the ECHR? We could rip up international treaties The Guardian - UK · Jun 11, 2024
Nigel Farage’s Reform just a point behind Tories new poll released after Rishi Sunak’s manifesto launch shows Keir Starmer’s Labour still well out in front, but Reform now snapping at the Conservatives’ heels The Independent UK · Jun 11, 2024
Rishi Sunak’s Conservative manifesto: Do the costs and savings add up? It remains to be seen whether the prime minister’s plans will be enough to overturn a 21-point gap between the Tories and Labour in the polls The Independent UK · Jun 11, 2024
With this half-hearted, delusional manifesto, Rishi Sunak has all but given up It would take a political genius to rescue the Tories now. Instead they have a leader more suited to churning out quarterly reports, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle The Guardian - UK · Jun 11, 2024
Campaign catchup: Conservative manifesto; Farage pelted again; Green candidate defects In today’s newsletter: Breaking down what was in the Tory manifesto, more items lobbed at the Reform leader, and a surprising defection in Scotland The Guardian - UK · Jun 11, 2024
Rishi Sunak 'cosplaying Liz Truss' and will not lower National Insurance, Rachel Reeves says Labour has responded to the Tory general election manifesto Evening Standard · Jun 11, 2024
Reform blame BBC for postponement of Nigel Farage interview A senior party source claimed broadcaster had not approached Reform leader Evening Standard · Jun 11, 2024
Do the sums add up in Tory tax-cut manifesto? Rishi Sunak says tax cuts will be paid for by slashing welfare bill further but experts doubt viability unless Conservatives usher in new era of austerity The Guardian - UK · Jun 11, 2024
Our reliable election forecast model predicts British Conservatives will lose big British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s election call for July 4 was a surprise. Since the government could stay in power another six months and have an election in early 2025, why did Sunak opt to go early? The Conversation · Jun 11, 2024
More tax cuts, fewer green policies: key takeaways from the Tories’ manifesto Signs of Sunak trying to head off Farage threat are obvious with lengthy sections on net zero and gender identity The Guardian - UK · Jun 11, 2024
Pensions, taxes, immigration: What's actually in the Tory manifesto? RISHI Sunak set out plans for major tax cuts as he invoked Margaret Thatcher at the launch of the Tory manifesto – as he bids to get the… The National (Scotland) · Jun 11, 2024
Tax cuts, help to buy and stamp duty: Key takeaways from the Conservatives’ general election manifesto Rishi Sunak claimed his party are the only ones ‘with the big ideas to make our country a better place to live”. The Independent UK · Jun 11, 2024
UK general election poll: Farage more popular than Sunak with 2019 Tory voters after D-Day blunder, poll shows The Prime Minister's approval rating dropped 12 percentage points in a week after he opted to swap a world leaders’ event in Normandy for an ITV interview, a survey shows Evening Standard · Jun 11, 2024
The National (Scotland) · Jun 11, 2024 Rishi Sunak lists 'forces of separatism in retreat' as a Tory 'achievement' RISHI Sunak has claimed the “forces of separatism” are “in retreat” as he hailed what he thought were the proudest achievements of 14 years…
The Guardian - UK · Jun 11, 2024 Sunak urges voters not to give Starmer ‘blank cheque’ as he launches Tory manifesto Prime minister promises series of tax cuts but his party’s election policies contain little in the way of surprises
Evening Standard · Jun 11, 2024 OPINION - The Standard View: Risk for Rishi Sunak is that voters have tuned out More tax cuts — that is the message Rishi Sunak wants voters to take away as the Conservative Party launched its election manifesto today. The question is: are they still listening? Not least when the 2019 parliament saw the largest rise in the tax take of any parliament on record,…
Evening Standard · Jun 11, 2024 OPINION - Forget Rishi Sunak launching the Tory manifesto, he is making a deeper strategic shift The Conservative campaign, as Rishi Sunak said several times in his BBC interview last night, “is about the future”. Spoiler alert: no one needs a soothsayer to predict that. The only question is the size of Labour’s majority and scale of the Tory wipe-out. So the Conservative campaign is switching…
The National (Scotland) · Jun 11, 2024 Rishi Sunak unveils manifesto tax cut pledges in bid to turn around Tory fortunes RISHI Sunak has unveiled plans for a further 2p cut in National Insurance at the launch of the Conservative manifesto.
Evening Standard · Jun 11, 2024 Drinks! Canapés! Gossip! Our insider guide to London’s exclusive summer parties From the political bash to the high art event, a behind-the-scenes look at what really goes on inside the capital’s most exciting soirées
The Independent UK · Jun 11, 2024 Rishi Sunak’s appeal to the right of the Tory party as he pledges tax cuts in manifesto Labour’s Keir Starmer accused Mr Sunak of producing a document ‘where anything you want can go in it. None of it is costed.’
The Independent UK · Jun 11, 2024 Watch: Sunak launches Conservative manifesto including tax cuts Watch as Rishi Sunak launches the Conservatives' general election manifesto on Tuesday, 11 June.
The National (Scotland) · Jun 11, 2024 Tory chair mocked for publishing top UK civil servant's letter admonishing him THE Tories have been rapped by the UK’s most senior civil servant after trying to bring the neutral civil service into the General Election…
The Guardian - UK · Jun 11, 2024 Azeem Rafiq on racism, cricket and why he had to leave Britain: ‘I never started this to be popular’ After his revelations about Yorkshire county cricket club, he had to move his whole family to another country. Now he’s releasing a memoir about the abuse that led him to speak out – and the attacks he has faced since
The Guardian - UK · Jun 11, 2024 UK politics: Anas Sarwar says election is about ‘getting rid of Tories’, not Scottish independence – as it happened Leaders of Scotland’s five main political parties clash during live TV debate