TORIES

• Welsh Tory manifesto launch.
• Labour’s disastrous record in Wales is Keir Starmer’s “blueprint” for power.
• Poster of egg box saying “not laid in the UK”: Don’t risk our food security.
• David TC Davies: Betting candidates shouldn’t be suspended on allegations until after the election.
• Topline(s):
  • Don’t sleepwalk into July 4. Don’t let Labour waltz into office without scrutinising their plans.

LABOUR

• Welsh Labour manifesto launch.
• Sunak needs to take immediate action against all implicated in betting scandal.
• Welsh Tory manifesto is a desperate fantasy wish-list of unfunded spending commitments.
• Sunak promised to cut debt – but on his watch, the national debt has reached an eye-watering 63-year high.
• Topline(s):
  • Stability with a changed Labour Party or five more years of chaos with the Tories.

LIBDEMS

• Ed Davey doing still life drawing in Harrogate.
• Welsh Liberal Democrats announced rural rescue plan for Wales – expanding the rural fuel duty relief scheme to Wales and extra funding to restore rural bus routes.
• Facebook Ads targeting members to help in campaigning.
• Topline(s):
  • People across rural Wales are fed up with being neglected and let down by a Conservative UK Government and misunderstood and forgotten about by a Welsh Labour Government.

REFORM

• Farage campaigning in Clacton.
• Interview with Nick Robinson at 7:00 p.m.
• Farage attacks Ofcom for limiting broadcast coverage to 8% – Ofcom are engaging in election interference.
• Topline(s):
  • The political class have failed us all.

GREENS

• Learning disability week: Greens commit to a 5% benefit uplift, free transport, reforming PIP.
• Polling suggests Greens could take two rural seats from Tories.
• Topline(s):
  • We need a strong Green voice in the next parliament – Green MPs who will push for investment to improve our inadequate public transport network.

Cutting through:

• Question Time fallout.
• Betting scandal tail-end.

Latest odds from Betfair:

Latest polls:

Techne: LAB: 42 (-1), CON: 19 (=), LDM: 12 (+1), RFM: 17 (+1), GRN: 5 (-1), SNP: 2 (=), OTH: 3 (=).

MoreinCommon: LAB: 39 (-2), CON: 25 (=), RFM: 14 (=), LDM: 11 (=), GRN: 5 (=), SNP: 3 (+1).

BMGResearch: LAB: 42 (+1), RFM: 18 (+4), CON: 18 (-3), LDM: 9 (-3), GRN: 7 (+1), SNP: 3 (=).