Head to Head
Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch and her Shadow Cabinet
counterparty Jonathan Reynolds went head-to-head in a lunch-time
debate, clashing on Brexit, green energy and worker reforms. The
dispute over Brexit came a day after reports emerged that UK
officials, EU diplomats and even senior Labour figures believe Starmer
will struggle to deliver a significantly different trending
relationship unless he relaxes his pledge to keep the UK out of the
EU’s customs union and single market.
Farage under Fire
Farage continued to face
widespread criticism for his egregious remarks that the West provoked
Putin into invading Ukraine. As our CEO Naomi Smith said,” Britain is
united against Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine and there is no
place in our parliament for those who make excuses for aggressive war.
People must vote
tactically to keep Britain united and keep those who seek to
divide us away from power.”
Labour Landslide
Labour attempted to downplay the barrage of polls suggesting
they’re on track for a historic landslide on 4 July. Anxious that
widespread assumptions of a crushing victory could lead to some people
not bothering to vote at all, Labour desperately pushed the message
that the result isn’t guaranteed unless people cast their ballots.
Gamble-gate
Speaking at the launch of the Scottish Conservatives’ manifesto in
Edinburgh, Rishi Sunak confirmed the Conservatives are conducting
their own internal inquiry into the betting scandal engulfing the
party, saying that the party “will act” if its own inquiries find
wrongdoing. The PM also declared he had never placed a bet on politics
while an MP. If you cast your mind back to that interview with Piers
Morgan in which he bet £1,000 that deportation flights would take off
before the Election, you’ll see the Prime Minister’s claim doesn’t
quite stand up…and not for the first time.
Sun Special
As the election campaign enters its final stretch, Sunak and
Starmer endured one of their last big media set-piece moments of the
campaign on the Sun’s Never Mind the Ballots. The Prime
Minister brought his now trademark tetchiness with him as he vocalised
his anger at, well, you know the thing you just read about, as well as
again attempting to draw painfully tenuous link between Liz Truss
and...Keir Starmer? On that note, the Labour leader was yet again
being forced to account for his own predecessor, before answering more
nuanced questions on his migration policy by an audience that perhaps
felt it was already the final vetting stage of the hiring process for
PM.
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