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Conservative manifesto puts home ownership up top – but ignores housing affordability

At the first UK general election debate between the prime minister, Rishi Sunak, and the leader of the opposition, Keir Starmer, Sunak claimed his government had “delivered 1 million new homes”.

The Conversation

Why is nobody talking about Brexit in the UK election?

The once defining issue in British politics has barely featured in this summer’s campaign

The Guardian - UK

Keir Starmer ally Louise Haigh defends Labour leader's jibe at Jeremy Corbyn manifesto from 2019

Shadow transport secretary says: ‘That was the worst election defeat we'd suffered in our history. And we've learned from those lessons.’

Evening Standard

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Tories fighting to prevent Labour winning ‘supermajority’, says Shapps

Defence secretary says even bigger win than 1997 landslide would be ‘very bad news’ for country

The Guardian - UK

General election TV Q&A: Sunak refuses to accept tax burden will definitely rise during next parliament – as it happened

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The Guardian - UK

Tories appear to admit election defeat as Cabinet minister pleads: Don't give Keir Starmer a 'super majority'

Defence Secretary Grant Shapps argued if Labour gets a majority ‘of the size of Blairs or even bigger’ it would place Britain in a ‘dangerous place’

Evening Standard

Rishi Sunak went without ‘lots of things’ including Sky TV as a child

PM recalls his parents’ sacrifices for his education in interview recorded after his return from D-day celebrations

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Lib Dem proposals take social care reform seriously – but doubts remain over how they’d pay for it

Despite the fact that it is central to so many people’s lives, too often, social care is an afterthought for UK political parties. In the first TV debate of the 2024 general election, Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer devoted only 36 seconds to this issue.

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Nigel Farage's Reform to leapfrog Tories into second place in key Red Wall seat of Hartlepool - survey

Hartlepool was the site of Boris Johnson’s greatest victory in 2021 before his premiership fell apart

Evening Standard

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

Reform blame BBC for postponement of Nigel Farage interview

A senior party source claimed broadcaster had not approached Reform leader

Evening Standard

Labour candidate in Liverpool criticises Starmer for advert on Sun homepage

Kim Johnson said city, much of which still boycotts paper over false Hillsborough reporting, would be disappointed in Labour

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - In a display of brute rhetorical bravado, Starmer criticises Sunak's 'Corbyn-style' manifesto

Less than two weeks before the 2016 Iowa caucus, Donald Trump sought to demonstrate his supreme confidence in the loyalty of his followers.

Evening Standard

General Election 2024 result: Who is my MP? Keir Starmer holds Holborn and St Pancras

General election 2024 results for Holborn and St Pancras

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'Off the charts dishonesty': Keir Starmer blasted over 'Corbyn-style' jibe at Tories

KEIR Starmer has been blasted for “off the charts dishonesty” after comparing the Tory manifesto to the Labour manifesto he campaigned on five…

The National (Scotland)

BBC announces key changes to election debate – and confirms Keir Starmer interview

THE BBC has announced key changes to an upcoming General Election debate, and confirmed that Keir Starmer has accepted an invitation for an in-depth…

Evening Standard

Keir Starmer BBC Panorama election interview with Nick Robinson confirmed

Sir Keir was the last leader to confirm an interview with the broadcaster

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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?

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The Guardian - UK

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

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 Independent UK

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 Guardian - UK

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

Al Jazeera

Is the UK’s left-wing Labour Party on a ‘rightward’ path in election race?

Labour’s leader Keir Starmer has been accused of purging left-wing members of his party ahead of the general election.

The Guardian - UK

Top businesswomen back Rachel Reeves as first female chancellor

Exclusive: Letter says bosses appreciate Reeves’s commitment to genuine plan for economic growth

The Guardian - UK

Social care is a timebomb beneath Britain – why does neither main party have a plan to tackle it?

Plans to fund adult care have been derided as a ‘dementia tax’ or a ‘death tax’. The carers I visited showed me that what they need is both urgent and simple, says the Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

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