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Labour manifesto leak: the highlights
Last night, Labour’s manifesto was leaked to the Daily Mirror and The Telegraph. There are disputes about who was responsible for this, as the manifesto was not due to be released in full until next week. Former Corbyn press officer Matttest
Here’s the real squatters of the housing market: letting agents
Here is a not-at-all unusual scenario in the modern housing market: having to fork out over nearly £100 to have a contract ‘renewed’. And by renewed, I mean emailed – to print, sign and post back. That’s what myself andtest
The Rich List: Why inequality must be a general election battleground
Last week the Times published their annual ‘Rich List’ – and it’s the latest sign that inequality must be a key general election battleground. Labour proposes to raise income taxes for those earning more than £80,000 yearly. And even Prime Ministertest
Can the Tories take Alex Salmond’s Seat?
As the General Election campaign unfolds, it is fast becoming one that is meshing together elements from elections in times gone by. As in 1983, a female Conservative Leader and Prime Minister faces a left wing Labour leader, with thetest
Labour figures join Tory MP (and Brian Eno) to demand Corbyn and May back PR
Senior Labour MPs and figures from across the spectrum – including Brian Eno and Billy Bragg – have signed an open letter calling on Jeremy Corbyn and Theresa May to back a fairer voting system. The statement, organised by campaigntest
UKIP to get dedicated BBC election programme – while Greens scramble for scraps
Photo: UKIP leader Paul Nuttall have a one-on-one interview with Andrew Neil, while the Greens will not. The Greens have slammed the BBC for denying the party coverage during the general election – despite UKIP getting a dedicated programme. Thetest
Reigning men: metro mayors show the usual suspects still rule
Photo: The West Midlands’ Andy Street (left) was one of six all-male metro mayors elected last Thursday A few weeks ago, campaigners warned of a looming ‘diversity crisis’ in our democracy. Just one of the six powerful new ‘metro mayor’test
Surrey Labour activists expelled for backing pro-NHS ‘progressive alliance’ candidate
Photo: Dr Louise Irvine is running against health secretary Jeremy Hunt. UPDATE: Two other senior Labour members in Surrey have now been expelled on similar grounds A senior Labour party member in Surrey has been expelled after backing the Nationaltest
There’s no other way of saying it: internet giants are killing journalism
From ‘dark ads’ to political twitter bots, social media giants have been in the spotlight this week. But new research points to an even more worrying trend for our democracy – and one we need to talk about this electiontest
May’s dinner fiasco with Juncker shows she has no Brexit plan
The revelations from Theresa May’s dinner with Jean-Claude Juncker last week, and reactions to the Downing Street supper, have blown open the myth, peddled by the Tories and their Hard Brexit, hard-right cheerleaders, of a prime minister with a plan,test