Friday 14th June - T minus 20

Your bite-size run-down of yesterday's key events

Manifesto overload

News was dominated by the launch of Labour’s Manifesto in Manchester, which set out the party’s plan to “end the desperate era of gestures and gimmicks” with a “credible” long-term plan to “rebuild our country”. The document, which was centred around wealth creation, had few if any surprises in it, something Starmer refused to apologise for after Sky’s Beth Rigby, asked whether it was a “Captain Caution” manifesto designed to protect Labour’s poll lead. Starmer rejected this characterisation explaining, “It is not about rabbits out of the hat, it's not about pantomime, we've had enough of that. I'm running as a candidate to be prime minister, not a candidate to run the circus." Plaid Cymru also chose Thursday to publish their manifesto, which focused on fair funding for Wales, with one of the party’s key manifesto pledges being a £4 billion payout for Wales to account for HS2. 

Sunak overseas

Fresh from a bruising at the Sky leader’s debate, Rishi Sunak jetted off to Italy to mix with other world leaders at the G7 summit in the coastal town of Bari. He particularly seemed to enjoy his time with Italy’s own populist PM Georgia Meloni, with whom he put on a rather chummy display.

Gambling gone wrong

After it came to light that Tory candidate Craig Williams - one of Rishi’s closest aides - had placed a hefty £100 bet on a July election just three days before the PM named the date, he was forced to admit that he had made a “huge error of judgement.” The Gambling Commission is in the process of investigating Williams.

Latest laugh

Providing yet more comical content was Ed Davey who, this time, took a break from falling into water to get all dolled up on ITV’s “This Morning”. Australian actor and fellow guest on the show Jason Donovan was certainly a fan, letting the audience know that he thought the Lib Dem Leader’s new do was “sexy”. 

Round two

After testing each other with tentative jabs in the first gathering of the seven party representatives, the gloves came off at last night's televised debates with those on stage making more direct attempts to chip away at Labour's polling lead. Penny Mordaunt attempted to reverse the trend of her party haemorrhaging voters to Reform by openly declaring that voting for any party other than the leading two is a wasted vote (only a matter of time before she backs our call for electoral reform, right?), whilst Nigel Farage made it all but clear that he intends to manoeuvre himself behind the opposition despatch box after July 4th by declaring his party the 'opposition to Labour'. Good grief.

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