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Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer should emulate Boris Johnson’s distinctive smile – here’s the research that shows why

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Labour leader Keir Starmer will meet in multiple TV debates over the course of the election campaign. Neither is considered a big personality, so this will be a test for both men.

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OPINION - If you don’t think politics matters then this is what you get: the Lib Dem campaign

As I watched the Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey treat the first week of the general election campaign like an episode of Total Wipeout, I thought of the old joke about a floating voter wandering into Liberal Democrat HQ. “I’d like a copy of your manifesto”. “I am very…

Evening Standard

I’d like to say Johnson and Brexit made me quit politics. But they were symptoms of the problem, not the cause

I still feel guilty about standing down, but could no longer put up with a chaotic system that made me feel like a fraud, says the former MP and minister Rory Stewart

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Donald Trump thanks Boris Johnson for defending him after hush money conviction

The former president, who last week became the first to be convicted of felony crimes, shared a column by the ex-prime minister calling the trial ‘a machine-gun mob-style hit-job on Trump’

The Independent UK

UK election debates must make climate crisis a key issue, say green groups

Campaigners have written to broadcasters expressing concern that climate is not a more prominent discussion topic

The Guardian - UK

Why Labour staffers and MPs don’t say no to ‘power behind the throne’ Sue Gray

Starmer’s chief of staff came with a reputation as an inquisitor and is not one to work in the shadows

The Guardian - UK

Zelenskiy: Trump risks being ‘loser president’ if he imposes bad deal on Ukraine

Exclusive: Ukrainian leader says bad peace deal in event of Trump victory would mean end of US as global ‘player’

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‘Gove saw the polls and realised he might lose’: Lib Dems hope to knock down Tory ‘blue wall’ in Surrey

Ed Davey’s party is seeking to win over disillusioned Conservative voters in the Surrey Heath seat of outgoing minister Michael Gove

The Guardian - UK

Tories accused of ‘colonising’ state by granting public roles to allies

Campaigners say the appointments system need to be overhauled amid criticism about alleged Conservative cronyism

The Guardian - UK

Battle buses see parties take the general election show on the road

After a series of MPs dramatically crossed the floor to join Labour, Keir Starmer joked that the buses were like Tory defectors – ‘You wait for ages and then three come along in a row’

The Independent UK

General Election show on the road as parties launch battle buses

Labour and the Conservatives both launched their battle buses on the weekend.

Evening Standard

Johnson: Trump presidential win ‘more likely’ following conviction

The former president is the first to be convicted of felony crimes.

Evening Standard

OPINION - Tom Newton Dunn: This election, Whitby Woman’s choice can change the rest of Britain

You remember Mondeo Man? The typical voter that Sir Tony Blair was keenest to target in 1997. In later elections there was Essex Man, Worcester Woman, Waitrose Woman and finally Workington Man in 2019, who Boris Johnson won over so successfully across the Red Wall.

Evening Standard

Power-drunk and arrogant: if this is how Starmer’s Labour treats its MPs, what will his party be like in power?

Labour’s purge of Faiza Shaheen and Diane Abbott increases my fear about how it will behave in office, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

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Volodymyr Zelenskiy: Russian troops are laughing at and ‘hunting’ Ukrainians

Exclusive interview: Ukrainian president says US delaying use of western weapons on targets inside Russia has cost lives

The Guardian - UK

Jon Stewart weighs in on Labour blocking academic from standing in UK election

US chatshow host describes as ‘dumb’ decision not to endorse Faiza Shaheen as candidate for London seat over tweets she liked

The Guardian - UK

Conservative Mark Logan defects to Labour in fresh blow to Rishi Sunak

Former Bolton North East MP says Tory party is ‘now unrecognisable’ and likens this general election to 1997

The Independent UK

Rishi Sunak grilled over Partygate by worker whose mother died in pandemic

The prime minister was asked ‘how anyone can trust you’ by a man who was unable to visit his mother in hospital before she passed away in 2020 while parties were happening in Downing Street

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US comic Jon Stewart pokes fun at Labour's clampdown on left-wingers

It comes amid allegations of a witchhunt against Labour’s hard left

The Guardian - UK

Starmer v Sunak: who are the men vying to be PM in the UK general election?

The Conservative and Labour leaders come from starkly different backgrounds but both are fighting for the political middle ground

The Independent UK

Jon Stewart calls rejection of UK candidate for liking one of his sketches ‘dumbest thing since Boris Johnson’

Faiza Shaheen says she has been barred by the Labour Party from contesting her local constituency at the upcoming general election following criticism of her social media activity

The National (Scotland)

'What the f***?': Top US talk show host calls out Labour for suspending candidate

A TOP US talk show host has said the Labour Party blocking candidate Faiza Shaheen from standing is the “dumbest thing the UK has done sine…

Evening Standard

Jeremy Hunt: My seat's on a 'knife edge' but the Conservatives will defend the Blue Wall brick by brick

EXCLUSIVE: The Chancellor said his Surrey seat is on a ‘knife edge’ as the Liberal Democrats seek to oust him

The Guardian - UK

Sunak rejects Farage’s offer of electoral deal with Reform party

Brexit campaigner suggested he and prime minister should ‘have a conversation’ after favours he had done Tories over the years

Evening Standard

General election TV debates: dates and who will take part

The main talking points of the first head to head were taxes, the economy, immigration, education and the NHS

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