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Slanging matches and soundbites: debate delivers seven ways to make time drag

Second TV outing manages to be simultaneously predictable, deadly dull and extremely bad-tempered

The Guardian - UK

Labour and Tories renew clashes in ill-tempered second election debate

Angela Rayner and Penny Mordaunt spar over taxes, defence and cost of living as others jostle for attention

The Guardian - UK

Labour’s largest union donor Unite refuses to endorse party’s election manifesto

Move came as a shock to members of Keir Starmer’s shadow cabinet, including David Lammy who said he was ‘surprised’

The Independent UK

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Furious Tories turn on Rishi Sunak over D-day commemorations snub

Penny Mordaunt criticises absence as ‘completely wrong’ while internal party WhatsApp groups reportedly full of horrified responses

The Guardian - UK

Labour signs off election manifesto but Unite refuses to endorse it

Document approved at ‘clause V’ meeting despite union’s reservations about issues including fire and rehire

The Guardian - UK

Campaign catchup: Sunak grovels, Labour teases, and a fiscal black hole awaits

In today’s newsletter: Zoe Williams recaps the worst day (yet) for the Conservative leader, and the rest of the day’s action on the campaign trail

The Guardian - UK

Sunak’s D-day failure is a campaign disaster – and a sign he’s forgotten the very recent past

The prime minister had only to look back a few years to see he was making a huge mistake, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

The Guardian - UK

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Why the UK really does need a clear plan to fix adult social care

Social care is set to be a central theme in the forthcoming UK general election. In the first electoral debate, held on June 4, 2024, Labour leader Keir Starmer promised a full plan to be published within the party’s manifesto. Sunak was altogether vaguer on what the Conservatives aim to…

The Conversation

OPINION - The novel of the summer has reminded me: where did the politics of hope go?

Fourteen years ago, when David Cameron defeated Gordon Brown to usher in the new British age of chaotic, wayward Conservatism, I was still in my thirties. Watching first a sequence of divisions sewn into the country, on issues of genuine political consequence, then the factious, petty culture wars that nagged…

Evening Standard

British PM Rishi Sunak apologises for leaving D-Day ceremony early

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak apologized Friday for leaving D-Day commemorations in France early to return to the election campaign trail — a decision slammed as disgraceful by his political rivals.

France 24

Keir Starmer heading for 10 years in power, new poll says

Exclusive: Redfield and Wilton poll for The Independent also finds that Tory supporters want Nigel Farage to suceed Rishi Sunak as party leader

The Independent UK

'Disgrace': Alex Salmond hits out at media coverage of General Election

ALEX Salmond has hit out at the media over their coverage of the General Election as he launched Alba's campaign ...

The National (Scotland)

Factchecking of Sunak’s misleading tax claim shows broadcasters taking a new approach to impartiality

In the first televised general election debate, Rishi Sunak claimed more than ten times that a future Labour government would cost households £2,000 more in tax. It took some time for Keir Starmer to rebut the attack, allowing the idea to fester for almost an hour among 5 million prime…

The Conversation

Conservatives halt digital ad campaigns after daily spend plunged

The disappearance of social media advertising comes as Rishi Sunak faces heavy criticism for missing D-Day events

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‘People feel betrayed by Labour’: Bristol’s Green surge continues

Anger over Starmer’s stance on Gaza and perceived shift to the right could lead to the Greens’ Carla Denyer being elected in Bristol Central

The Conversation

How Rishi Sunak tried to weaponise information only to shoot himself in the foot

Could it be that British politics is slipping into some post-satire phase of confusion and condemnation?

The Guardian - UK

How will seven parties hope to make their mark in BBC election debate?

With Penny Mordaunt, Angela Rayner, Daisy Cooper, Nigel Farage and more, expect sparky and chaotic exchanges

The Guardian - UK

Election diary: Rishi Sunak makes a French exit and Ed Davey wins hearts

The PM slipped away from D-day events to give an interview, while the Lib Dem leader talked movingly about his son

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Evening Standard

How old do you have to be to vote in general elections as voting age to be lowered?

England will be lowing lowering the age to vote - the Parliament has previously rejected the idea twice, once in 1999 and once more in 2005

International Business Times

UK's Sunak Apologises For Skipping Main D-Day Event

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak apologised on Friday for leaving the D-Day commemorations in France early to give a domestic television interview, the latest self-inflicted setback to his stuttering general election campaign.

The Guardian - UK

Digested week: Murdoch goes soppy (again) and UK leaders get awkward

Plus: Posh Spice’s parenting and the white British male love-in at the Washington Post

Evening Standard

Housing market 'primed to surge' after election as interest rate cuts come into view

Is a ‘Starmer spurt’ on the way?

Evening Standard

Rishi Sunak gifts Nigel Farage open goal for TV debate with D-Day ceremony fly home early blunder

The PM has apologised for flying back to the UK early to do a TV interview in which he denied ‘lying’ about Labour’s tax plans

The National (Scotland)

BBC confirms interviews with major party leaders – but not Keir Starmer

THE BBC has confirmed the dates for a series of interviews with the leaders of UK political parties – except Keir Starmer.

The Guardian - UK

Don’t underestimate Starmer’s push for workers’ rights – it could be his defining legacy

For the first time in decades, and with public support, dignity and fairness in the workplace are back on the political agenda, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

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