Monday 10th June - T minus 24

Your bite-size run-down of the weekend's key events

Chaos continues

As the fallout from Sunak’s D-Day disaster continues, the Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride was forced to deny that Rishi Sunak could step down before the 4 July, in an extraordinary mid-campaign moment.

Results roll in

The European People’s Party (EPP) is set to emerge as the largest force in the EU Parliament, as support for centrist parties held even as far-right groups made major gains across the bloc. Exit polls suggest the centre right party will end up with 184 out of 720 lawmakers, meaning it will continue to be best placed to set EU policy. 

Focus on France

In a huge political gamble, Macron has called a surprise snap election for the French parliament after being rattled by disastrous EU election results in which Marine Le Pen’s hard right National Rally is projected to have won 32% of the vote, compared to Macron’s Renaissance Party at 15%.  Macron is betting French voters are more likely to back more centrist parties in a domestic election and he can snuff out this right wing resurgence before it can gain further momentum.

Plenty policy

Back in the UK, the weekend saw plenty of policy announcements from all parties ahead of manifesto launches this week. The top lines are as follows: 

- The Tories are promising to reform the welfare system to get people who are mentally unwell back into work  -  alongside a tightening up of the system to cut the numbers claiming disability benefit. 
- Labour focused on crime, promising that they will establish 80 new courts for rape cases across England and Wales, build more prisons by letting ministers bypass planning laws and clamp down on shoplifting and violence against shop workers. 
- And Ed Davey was out promoting the Lib Dems policy of creating 1,000 new hospital beds, as the party continues to put health and social care front and centre. Their Manifesto launches today.
- Elsewhere, Green co-leader Carla Denyer spoke <[link removed]> powerfully about the importance and positive impact of immigration during the BBC’s 7-way General Election debate on Friday, and also the SNP Stephen Flynn broke the silence <[link removed]> of this election on the damaging impact of Brexit.

Yay for Youth Mobility Scheme

This weekend it was also confirmed that the Lib Dems will pledge a Youth Mobility Scheme with the EU, as recommended <[link removed]> by the UK Trade and Business Commision. Our polling shows around 7 in 10 people are in favour of the scheme, and as our CEO Naomi Smith argues <[link removed]>, “voters want it, businesses need it and we want all parties to get on with it.” Make sure to check out <[link removed]> our Director of Campaigns Cal Roscow go into more detail on LBC. 





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