- Victoria Atkins press conference: Labour will fail in protection of women and girls.
- Laura Saunders and Craig Williams dropped as Tory candidates.
- Labour voted 134 times against stopping the boats.
- Topline(s):
- Illegal migrants are waiting for Labour.
- Starmer pledges to chair an annual knife crime summit to track progress in meeting Labour’s mission to halve knife crime incidents within a decade.
- Candidates suspended too late. The Tories who sought to line their own pockets by betting on the election date are not fit to be candidates for parliament.
- Fewer people are being arrested, courts are being delayed, and those convicted have been given secret early release back onto our streets by Rishi Sunak. The wheels of justice have simply stopped turning.
- Topline(s):
- Cutting knife crime will be a moral mission for the next Labour government.
- Sunak has dithered and delayed. He must confirm immediately that betting candidates will not have the Conservative whip if elected.
- We want a Clean Water Act for Scotland to update the sewage network
- Topline(s):
- Liberal Democrats will introduce free personal care for elderly and disabled adults.
- Farage GB News interview from Channel to witness 50,000th migrant crossing.
- Reform celebrate high viewership of content on social media – Reform UK’s agenda to fix Broken Britain is engaging the public much more than the tired and discredited old lies from Labour and the Tories.
- Both parties offer high taxes: Only Reform UK will raise the income tax threshold to £20,000 to make work pay and support British people.
- Topline(s):
- Rishi can’t stop the boats. Starmer won’t stop the boats. Only Reform will stop the boats.
- Campaigning in Bristol, London, North Herefordshire, and Waveney Valley.
- Greens will push for a new contract for NHS dentists that ensures everybody who needs an NHS dentist has access to one, backed by an additional £3bn for the dentistry budget by 2030.
- Topline(s):
- Our Green plan for dentists will put the billions into the NHS needed to turn around fourteen years of Conservative failure, and ensure every person in every community will have access to an affordable NHS dentist.
- Betting candidate suspensions.
- Assange deal.
Latest polls:
JL Partners: LAB: 41 (+1), CON: 25 (+2), RFM: 15 (-3), LDM: 11 (+2), GRN: 5 (=), SNP: 3 (-1).
Savanta: LAB: 42 (=), CON: 21 (+2), RFM: 14 (-2), LDM: 10 (+1), GRN: 5 (=), SNP: 3 (=).
- Scottish Tory manifesto launch.
- Armed Forces Week – This week, and every week, we thank them and the entire Armed Forces community for their heroic service and sacrifice.
- Heaton-Harris on morning round – questioned on betting.
- Badenoch vs Reynolds at Bloomberg debate: companies “terrified” of Labour workers’ rights plans.
- Topline(s):
- Starmer is trying to take us back into Europe through the back door – Don’t let him.
- It’s absolutely astounding that a string of ministers can’t answer basic questions about the Tories’ betting scandal.
- Tories are not being honest about the state of the NHS, but Labour will: the NHS is broken.
- Only Labour will stop the rot and save dentistry with 700,000 extra appointments straight away.
- Continued attacks on betting scandal.
- Starmer: Sunak is cynically delaying betting probe until after election.
- Topline(s):
- You could make this the last full week of the Tories. Change will only happen if you vote for it.
- Ed Davey with ambulance crew in South-West London.
- People should be suspended for immoral election gambling – the Tories are in it for themselves, not for public services.
- Welsh LibDem manifesto launch.
- Topline(s):
- Vote Liberal Democrat to save our NHS and social care.
- Farage in Maidstone, doubles down in Ukraine row in speech.
- Streeting wrong to attack Reform healthcare plans: of course still free at point of delivery, but other nations producing much better outcomes by organising healthcare differently.
- Topline(s):
- Vote with your heart and vote for what you truly believe in.
- Greens now the fastest growing political party. Join the party of environmental, social, racial and economic justice.
- Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth endorse Green manifesto in rankings list.
- Topline(s):
- Labour’s green policies are bitterly disappointing, even in the context of the dire Conservative offering. Every single Green vote will push the Labour government to be bolder and better.
- Farage row.
- IFS says that all parties need to raise taxes or cut more than spelt out in manifestos.
FocalData MRP: LAB: 450 (+250), CON: 110 (-262), LDM: 50 (+42), RFM: 1 (+1), GRN: 1 (=), SNP: 16 (31), OTH: 19 (=).
Savanta: LAB: 42 (+2), CON: 19 (-2), RFM: 16 (+2), LDM: 9 (-2), GRN: 5 (+1), SNP: 3 (=).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Question Time fallout.
- Betting scandal tail-end.
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 (=).
- Farmers say Labour’s rural policies are pathetic.
- New video: Labour will roll out red carpet for migrants: A warm welcome home from Labour.
- Gambling fallout – Director of Campaigns takes leave of absence.
- Topline(s):
- Only the Conservatives can win enough seats to prevent an unaccountable Labour majority.
- Hunt saying “doesn’t think it’s fair to say there was sustained economic scarring” from Truss – the comments are insulting to the millions of people who are paying more on their mortgage.
- Touting PEB.
- Pat McFadden writes letter about gambling revelations: what does it say about the Tory party that once again their first instinct was to fill their boots?
- Our plans will get Britain building and help working families onto the housing ladder, with first dibs for first-time buyers and a new Freedom to Buy mortgage guarantee scheme.
- Topline(s):
- Economic security. Home-ownership. Feeling better off. Change. That’s the promise of a Labour government.
- Ed Davey in Sheffield.
- Sunak’s farming dash is too little too late. Farmers and rural voters are deserting him.
- Our plans for a Young Carers Pupil Premium will help young people fulfil their potential.
- Topline(s):
- The Conservatives’ economic mismanagement sent mortgages and rents soaring. Don’t let them bet the house again.
- Response to Tory video: The Tories have already rolled out the red carpet…
- Gambling: The future of this country is just a game to them.
- Clacton candidate saying he’s running “for every black and brown person in UK” is divisive and racist.
- Topline(s):
- Only Reform UK will leave the ECHR. Only Reform UK will stop the boats.
- HIV: Proven policies in our manifesto on HIV will save the NHS millions of pounds, but most importantly, they will save lives.
- Celebrating 55,000 members.
- Liz Truss borrowed to give tax breaks to the very richest in society
- Topline(s):
- A 1% tax on wealth over £10 million could be reinvested straight back into public services.
- Gambling story continuation.
YouGov MRP: LAB: 425 (+223), CON: 108 (-257), LDM: 67 (+56), SNP: 20 (-28), RFM: 5 (+5), PLD: 4 (=), GRN: 2 (+1).
- Celebrating 2% inflation – don’t let Labour put all this progress at risk.
- Sunak LBC call-in.
- Poster with Putin, Xi Jinping, and Jong Un clapping along to Keir – “They’re watching“.
- Labour is roulette wheel of more tax or more debt.
- Topline(s):
- As Conservatives, cutting tax is the central moral mission of our party.
- Far from stopping the boats, Rishi Sunak is presiding over the worst year our country has ever seen for Channel crossings.
- First Jeremy Hunt let the cat out of the bag and now Mel Stride has admitted it too. The £12 billion manifesto savings are an old policy.
- Endorsements from celebrities. Gary Neville video coming out in evening.
- Great British Energy will save families up to £300 a year off their energy bills.
- Topline(s):
- Do you feel better off than you did 14 years ago?
- Ed Davey – We think we’re going to have to go through four stages to rebuild a relationship with Europe, it’s been so damaged by the Tories.
- Daisy Cooper in Hunt’s seat to unveil new poster – he “has to go“.
- People are planning to vote Liberal Democrat by post in this election – register now.
- Topline(s):
- Tories are out of touch, they’re incompetent, and people have had enough.
- Millionaire Muslim entrepreneur donates “hundreds of thousands” – “Farage wants the best for Britain and its people, no matter their religion or skin colour“.
- Survation – Farage set to win Clacton “with biggest swing in modern history“.
- Rishi can’t stop the boats and Labour don’t care. This is a national security emergency.
- Topline(s):
- Reform set to win seats. If you vote Reform, you get Reform.
- Apply for postal vote today.
- Labour’s rehashed social care plan barely touches the edges of the scale of investment needed.
- Topline(s):
- Only the Greens are being honest about the investment needed to fix 14 years of Tory failure.
- Just Stop Oil spraying Stonehenge orange. All party leaders disapprove.
Focaldata: LAB: 43 (+1), CON: 21 (-3), RFM: 16 (+1), LDM: 10 (+1), GRN: 5 (-).
- Sunak and Cameron campaigning on farming in safe seats – make food security legal target.
- Sunak welcomes Johnson activity in campaign: “He is endorsing many candidates in videos and letters which have been coordinated by the campaign. I know that will make a difference.“
- Starmer admitted that Labour’s tax on schools won’t cover their plans – we all know it, they would raise taxes.
- Barclay: Potential Labour removal of farm IHT exemption is “risk to our nation’s food security.”
- Topline(s):
- If you fall for Labour’s tax trap, you may never get out.
- Starmer call-in on LBC.
- Attack on Hunt for saying Truss’ economic plans are a “good thing to aim for“.
- Streeting: Sunak deliberately blocked efforts to fix the NHS workforce when he was Chancellor.
- 10 pubs closing a week: The closure of local pubs is symbolic of the decline under the Tories.
- Anas Sarwar unveils Scottish Labour manifesto.
- Topline(s):
- Let’s stop the chaos, turn the page and start to rebuild Britain.
- Ed Davey making chutney in Carshalton.
- Layla Moran on Sky touting plans for Clean Water Authority and spend £10M to recruit sewage inspectors.
- In large parts of the country, it is the Lib Dems – not Labour – who are best placed to beat the Conservatives on Thursday 4th July.
- Investment down: businesses are refusing to invest due to Tory chaos.
- Topline(s):
- The Conservatives are fading into irrelevance. LibDems will hold Labour to account.
- Reform UK has consulted lawyers about suing the company to which it paid £144,000 to vet over 400 of its candidates in April but which failed to return a single piece of research.
- Farage demands place on leaders debate after BBC puts up extra Question Time special.
- Topline(s):
- If anything emerges that precludes a candidate from being a member of Reform UK, we will not hesitate to act, after a full and fair investigation.
- Arts and culture: extra £5 billion for culture venues, VAT scrapped for theatres and hospitality, musicians given visa-free EU travel.
- Adrian Ramsay on BBC: reasonable to ask those with the broadest shoulders by raising taxes.
- Topline(s):
- A vote for the Green Party will enable voices in parliament to keep Labour honest on these important issues.
- Last day to register to vote.
Redfield and Wilton: LAB: 43 (+1), RFM: 18 (+1), CON: 18 (–), LDM: 12 (-1), GRN: 5 (–), SNP: 3 (–), OTH: 1 (–).
MoreInCommon: LAB: 41 (=), CON: 25 (=), RFM: 14 (+1), LDM: 11 (+1), GRN: 5 (=), SNP: 2 (-1).
Deltapoll: LAB: 46 (=), CON: 19 (-2), RFM: 16 (+4), LDM: 10 (+1), GRN: 5 (=), SNP: 2 (-2).
Speaking at his speech on how to achieve “progressive capitalism” Wes Streeting fired a dig and Andy Burnham:
“Bond markets are not bond villains and fiscal rules matter.”
