17 Days to Go: Sign on the Dotted Party Line

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TORIES

Attack on Labour energy policies: Labour’s extreme net-zero proposals put the unnecessary demands of green ideology ahead of the needs of British families.
Jon Ashworth unable to answer questions on fuel duty hike: They are going to raise your taxes.
If you’re thinking about voting for Reform, and a generation under Labour scares you, there’s only one way to prevent it: vote Conservative.
Topline(s):
- Labour will pursue Net Zero no matter the cost to families and livelihoods.
- Tyrants like Putin are the only people who will welcome Labour energy policy.

LABOUR

Starmer and Reeves in Southampton to promote £7.3 billion wealth fund plans – 650,000 new jobs.
Claim that Hunt admits tax cuts are “unfunded” in local leaflet because savings programme was pre-announced in Autumn Statement.
- Ashworth afternoon press conference on that.
Labour will host a Global Investment Summit in the first 100 days to hit the ground running. Reeves meeting with Labour’s British Infrastructure Council
Reeves tells FT she will seek new closer deal with EU.
Topline(s):
- Labour will create good jobs paying a decent wage right across the country, making you better off.
- The Tories’ manifesto is a desperate wish list of unfunded promises that risks crashing the economy

LIBDEMS

Ed Davey in Devon building sand castles.
Scottish LibDems launch manifesto: improving care system, higher carer minimum wage, paid carer’s leave.
Chamberlain: Where is the opposition, the holding to account going to come from? It’s going to come from the Liberal Democrats.
Topline(s):
- The Conservatives are fading into irrelevance. LibDems will hold Labour to account.

REFORM

“Our Contract With You” launch in South Wales – Farage and Tice launch policy platform.
Candidate in North West Essex resigns from party over BNP endorsement.
Topline(s):
- Britain is broken. Only Reform UK has bold, common sense solutions to save it.

GREENS

Response to Labour £7.3 billion pledge: The headline figure of £7.3bn falls massively short of the £40bn per year that Greens have committed to spend. Sticking the word ‘green’ in front of a plan doesn’t make it Green.
Labour must join the Green Party in committing to scrap two-child benefit cap.
Topline(s):
- A vote for the Green Party will enable voices in parliament to keep Labour honest on these important issues.”

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