Wednesday 19th June - T minus 15

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

Fierce Ferrari

Starmer faced a rare Q&A with voters on Nick Ferrari’s LBC radio show, getting a grilling on Gaza, council tax and Corbyn among other things. Phone-ins can be perilous during an election campaign, but it seems Starmer came out relatively unscathed. We will have to see if the same can be said for Sunak, who is up this morning at 9am.

A Murrayfield manifesto

Up in Edinburgh, Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar launched his party’s manifesto in the Murrayfield rugby stadium, also fielding tricky questions on the wider party’s big policy plays. Like Starmer’s Manifesto, Scottish Labour’s plans prioritised economic stability and growing the economy.


Hunted down

Jeremy Hunt faced a barrage of criticism, after two recordings were leaked in which he argued that Liz Truss’ economic ambitions were a “good thing to aim for” and that her disastrous mini-budget hadn’t left an impact on the economy. His comments are unlikely to have pleased the many millions who have had their mortgages more than tripled as a result of Truss’ actions. Labour’s Darren Jones was quick to point out that far from turning the page on the Truss episode, this is the latest indication that the current Government under Sunak is just a dangerous continuation.

Defensive in Devon

In a sure sign of how defensive the Tory campaign has become, Sunak spent the morning meeting fishermen in West Devon; a constituency where the Conservative candidate Geoffrey Cox has a majority of 25,000. Yikes. In the afternoon, he ventured to North Devon where he and David Cameron attempted <[link removed]> to feed sheep at a farm, only for them all to run away.

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