Leaders Debate: Keir Starmer is applauded for reiterating pledge to end tax breaks for private schools
“I equally accept that every parent has aspiration for their children whether they go to private school or not.”
Basit Mahmood
Damning chart shows how Tory manifesto plans would leave richer households better off while poorest lose out
So much for Tory levelling up…
Grant Shapps begs voters not to give Labour a ‘super majority’
A YouGov survey on Tuesday put Labour on 38%, the Tories on 18%, Reform UK on 17%, the Lib Dems on 15%, the Greens on 8% and the SNP on 2%.
Here are 4 immediate steps government could take to lift a million children out of poverty
The Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) has however set out 4 immediate steps that can be taken that will lift at least a million children out of poverty
UK economy flatlines in further blow to Rishi Sunak
“These figures expose the damage done after 14 years of Conservative chaos.”
Nigel Farage cancels BBC party leader interview at last minute
Farage’s decision to pull out of the panorama interview comes after the BBC revealed one of his Reform candidates at the General Election had argued that the UK should have remained neutral while Adolf Hitler’s Nazis stormed Europe.
Tories’ own attack ad suggests that they could come third
It follows on from a torrid week for the Prime Minister…
Nick Robinson tears Rishi Sunak apart for repeating ‘£2,000 tax rise’ claim
‘You’ve got a bit of a nerve, haven’t you, having a go at the Labour Party?’
Reform UK candidate said UK ‘should have been neutral on Hitler’
It comes as Nigel Farage, the leader of Reform UK, prepares to unveil the party’s manifesto.
Tory chair Richard Holden in car crash interview as adviser steps in to save him
“So you can’t justify the way you have been parachuted into Basildon and Billericay? You’re not deciding it’s a stitch-up and it’s anti-democratic?”