Sunak rejects Farage’s offer of electoral deal with Reform party Brexit campaigner suggested he and prime minister should ‘have a conversation’ after favours he had done Tories over the years The Guardian - UK · May 29, 2024
Rish!’s farewell tour reveals the true meaning of futility After a stop in Devon, where his audience appeared uniformly bored, you had to wonder, where are the rest of the cabinet? The Guardian - UK · May 29, 2024
Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis Would Be Required to Take Part In National Service If It Passes In the U.K.—Including Potentially Serving in the Armed Forces No royal children will be exempt from taking part in at least a year of service when they turn 18, the country’s Conservative Party clarified. Marie Claire · May 29, 2024
Rishi Sunak will for ever be significant Letters: First PM of colour | A lectern lecture | Googling the Quick Crossword number | Dancing at funerals | Extending the vote The Guardian - UK · May 29, 2024
Teenagers have gone through enough – national service is too much to ask UK prime minister Rishi Sunak has announced plans to reintroduce national service should the Conservative party retain power in the general election. Under Sunak’s proposed scheme, 18-year-olds would either spend a year in the military or one weekend out of every four volunteering. The Conversation · May 29, 2024
What role England’s mayors have to play in the general election One of the least spoken about shifts in English politics over the last decade is the move towards mayors. Starting with the establishment of the Mayor of London by Tony Blair in 2000, successive Conservative governments have created 11 mayoral combined authorities, each with its own directly elected mayor, since… The Conversation · May 29, 2024
What to know as Conservatives and Labour vie for votes 1 week into Britain's election campaign The first week of Britain’s six-week election campaign has seen frenetic activity but not much movement The Independent UK · May 29, 2024
How ‘Red Votes, Blue Values’ of fed-up Tories are set to win it for Starmer Exclusive: Small ‘c’ conservative voters are switching to Labour in huge numbers according to a new survey for The Independent The Independent UK · May 29, 2024
Tory national service policy would leave UK’s poorest areas worse off, IFS warns Thinktank says proposal to pay for scheme by scrapping shared prosperity fund would downgrade efforts to level up country The Guardian - UK · May 29, 2024
General election TV debates: dates and who will take part The main talking points of the first head to head were taxes, the economy, immigration, education and the NHS Evening Standard · May 29, 2024
UK and US elections: 2 very different systems united by a common political language Voters in the United Kingdom on May 22 learned the date they would be joining the many, many people casting ballots around the world in 2024. The Conversation · May 29, 2024
Beleaguered Tories finally come out on top with voters – but only on campaign slogan A pollster has described Labour’s “Change” slogan as “boring” The Independent UK · May 29, 2024
Britain’s first lady? Akshata Murty goes on campaign trail to boost Rishi Sunak’s election hopes Akshata Murty visits Yorkshire in first solo campaign visit The Independent UK · May 29, 2024
Rishi Sunak wakes up to election trouble in Cornwall over national service funding Plan to conscript 18-year-olds depends on scrapping a national levelling-up fund that benefits Cornwall and Wales Evening Standard · May 29, 2024
The Independent UK · May 29, 2024 Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda flights plan is not credible, damning report by MPs finds MPs say they have ‘little confidence’ in Home Office’s ability to organise deportation flights to Rwanda
The Independent UK · May 29, 2024 Junior doctors to go on strike for five days during election campaign The union announced that junior doctors will stage a full walkout from 7am on June 27 to 7am on July 2
The Guardian - UK · May 29, 2024 What you need to know about the 4 July UK general election What’s gone wrong for the prime minister? And why does everyone think his Conservative party will lose?
Evening Standard · May 29, 2024 ITV announces first live election debate between Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer The Prime Minister and Labour leader will clash in an hour-long debate at 9pm on Tuesday
The National (Scotland) · May 29, 2024 First TV debate of election announced – with major snub for SNP RISHI Sunak and Keir Starmer will go head to head in the first TV debate of the election, it has been announced – with the SNP snubbed.
The Independent UK · May 29, 2024 When is the first Sunak-Starmer election debate? Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer are scheduled to take part in two head-to-head TV debates
The Independent UK · May 29, 2024 Rishi Sunak ordered by High Court judge to come clean on first Rwanda flight date Government lawyers had told the court flights could go in late June – but then Rishi Sunak called the election
The Guardian - UK · May 29, 2024 Six televised rounds of Starmer v Sunak? I can’t imagine anything worse These debates are rarely useful, let alone enlightening. Let’s have a head-to-head of progressive parties instead, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams
The Independent UK · May 29, 2024 Rishi Sunak promises to scrap ‘rip-off’ degrees to boost apprenticeships The prime minister wants to see the worst-performing university courses replaced with high-skilled apprenticeships
The Guardian - UK · May 29, 2024 Wes Streeting mocks Tories over ‘sleepy’ name-calling attacks on Starmer Shadow health secretary jokes Labour leader should take on Sunak in football challenge but says he is ‘disgusted’ by name-calling
The Independent UK · May 29, 2024 I’d love a robot nanny for my children – as long as it didn’t love them back The PM suggested that nearly 40 per cent of jobs could be affected by a future boom in robots and artificial intelligence. It got Charlotte Cripps pondering her childcare arrangements, and what life could look like with a cyborg childminder in tow