Thursday 27th June - T minus 7

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

Sending signals

It was reported that Keir Starmer was seated next to the King’s Principal Private Secretary at the State Banquet in Buckingham palace for the Emperor and Empress of Japan’s state visit, while Sunak was seated next to a computer scientist from Southampton. Given the King will be asking one of the two party leaders to form the next government in a week’s time, it was an interesting and rather telling choice of seating plan.

Bored of betting?

A fifth Conservative is being investigated by the Gambling commission. On top of this it was revealed that Scottish Secretary Alister Jack had told the BBC he had won £2,100 betting on the date of the election. He later backtracked saying he put on three bets, two unsuccessful, and won only £100. He insists he is not under investigation and that he has done nothing wrong…we will just have to wait and see on that one. Labour have also now been dragged into the debacle, after the suspension of Kevin Craig, the party’s candidate in Central Suffolk and North Ipswich, for betting he would lose his own seat. And it's not looking like the scandal is going away anytime soon, with the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire claiming on Newsnight that up to 15 Tory candidates and officials are being scrutinised by the Gambling Commision. What a right old mess.

Record dissatisfaction

It seems like never-ending bad news for the Government, with the release of a new Ipsos Mori poll that revealed 83% of Brits are dissatisfied with the way that Government is running the country. That’s the worst score for a government in Ipsos’ records at this stage of a campaign going back to 1979 - the infamous Winter of Discontent.

A lost decade

A new study has concluded that Brexit and austerity have fed a “lost” decade, stifling economic growth and undermining social cohesion in the UK. Responding to the report, our CEO Naomi Smith called for an end <[link removed]> to the silence around the damage Brexit is causing.

The Final Grilling

Set to the soundtrack of a nearby protest, the two leading candidates for Prime Minister once again had a chance to answer all the same questions as they'd done so before, this time in Nottingham. Brexit was granted a little bit more airtime than previous occasions however, with Kier Starmer suggesting a better trade deal with Europe was possible - something Rishi Sunak didn't refute but made clear had no intention of doing anything about.

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