- “Starmer squirms as Question Time audience smirks and exposes his waffle” – The Conservatives believe Labour’s Achilles’ heel is tax, but for the public it seems that Keir Starmer’s vulnerability lies in his lack of truthfulness, says Gordon Rayner in the Telegraph.
- “Sunak looked like a man who was running the country – until he wobbled” – Rishi was strong on the gambling allegations but spluttered his way through the National Service issue during the Question Time debate, writes Gordon Rayner in the Telegraph.
- “Sunak says plan ‘making a difference’ in Question Time election show” – Rishi Sunak vowed to kick out any Tories found to have broken rules over betting on the election date during a Question Time grilling, reports the Mail.
- “Tory ministers fear defeat beyond their ‘wildest nightmares’” – Senior ministers have said that polls showing the Conservative Party on course for its worst election result in a century are beyond “people’s wildest nightmares”, says the Times.
- “Farage predicts Tory wipeout will be even worse than polls suggest” – Nigel Farage claims that a Conservative wipeout at the General Election could be even worse than the polls suggests, reports the Telegraph.
- “Winston Churchill’s great nephew backs Reform” – The Duke of Marlborough hails his “friend” Nigel Farage as the only person who can stop the U.K. from being dragged into war, says the Telegraph.
- “Conservative campaigning director takes ‘leave of absence’ amid election gambling probe” – The Conservative Director of Campaigning has taken a “leave of absence” while he is investigated over an alleged bet on the date of the election, reports the Standard.
- “Huge spike in bets on day before Sunak announced election” – An unusual burst of bets on a July poll preceded Rishi Sunak’s announcement of the General Election, according to an analysis by the FT.
- “The truth is out: Labour will tax Britain to destruction” – Starmer could hardly have made it clearer: his party plans to target the productive to bribe dependent voters to stick with Labour, says Sam Ashworth-Hayes in the Telegraph.
- “How Keir Starmer plans to rule through the courts” – The real theme of a Keir Starmer government will be the eclipse of elected politicians and the continued draining away of power to the courts, warns Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “James Cleverly ‘lacks appetite’ for Conservative Party leadership contest” – James Cleverly is not planning to stand in the Tory leadership race, as the field of candidates to replace Rishi Sunak begins to narrow, reports the Times.
- “Labour’s Islington North Chairman who ‘hid in bush when spotted campaigning for Corbyn’ quits” – A senior Labour figure has been forced to resign after hiding behind a hedge when caught campaigning for Jeremy Corbyn in Islington North, says the Express.
- “Budget rules mean private schools VAT raid won’t start before September 2025, Labour insiders claim” – Labour’s private school tax raid would not kick in until September 2025 at the earliest, party insiders have insisted after Rachel Reeves said it would be in her first Budget, according to the Telegraph.
- “Vote Priti, get Boris? The Tories in defeat are dreaming of better times” – Conservative candidates are grasping at stratagems for post-election revival, but even these are flaky, says Fraser Nelson in the Telegraph.
- “Tory voters want to punish their party – and themselves” – Tory voters are set to elect an extreme Left-wing government to punish the current one for being too Left-wing, writes Lionel Shriver in the Spectator.
- “Whoever you vote for, the Blob wins” – MPs are little more than human shields whose job is to take the blame for decisions made by bureaucrats, says Matt Ridley in the Spectator.
- “Social Democratic Party candidate Rod Liddle admits ‘deal’ with Reform” – On the latest Planet Normal podcast, columnists Liam Halligan and Allison Pearson ask the SDP’s candidate for Middlesbrough Rod Liddle about his hopes for the election.
- “Eminem hit back in top 40 as Nigel Farage adopts it as election anthem” – Eminem’s ‘Without Me’ has made a reappearance in the U.K.’s top 40 more than 20 years after it was first released – after Nigel Farage made it his election theme tune, reports the Mail.
- “BBC’s Emma Barnett calls armed terrorists ‘men working for Hamas’” – BBC Radio 4 star Emma Barnett has sparked a backlash after calling a pair of armed terrorists who kidnapped an Israeli grandmother “men working for Hamas”, according to the Mail.
- “Lockdown sank both Trudeau and Sunak” – For both Sunak and Trudeau, the evaporation began after the pandemic lockdowns, writes Michael Coren in the Telegraph.
- “Pfizer CEO says there will be another holocaust if we don’t ‘follow the science’, compares Pfizer and elite establishment to the Jews” – On Substack, Rebekah Barnett reacts to Pfizer CEO Dr. Albert Bourla comparing the spread of COVID-19 disinformation to Nazi propaganda.
- “Covid fines were ‘bonkers’ and slate should be wiped clean, says David Davis” – Conservative MP Sir David Davies says that Covid fines were “bonkers” and that the slate should be wiped clean for people who were landed with criminal convictions as a result, according to the Telegraph.
- “Lockdown rule-breakers don’t deserve to be treated like criminals” – Of course there must be an amnesty for those convicted of breaking lockdown rules, says Isabelle Oakeshott in the Telegraph.
- “A&E waits causing ‘plane-load of deaths every week’” – Senior doctors say that long A&E waits are causing a “plane-load” of deaths each week, according to the Express & Star.
- “‘No bulls–t’ and Thatcherite thinking: the unstoppable rise of Kemi Badenoch” – The Business and Trade Secretary could be the next leader of the Conservatives – but can she unite a divided party? asks Mick Brown in the Telegraph.
- “Democracy in decay: Parliament’s Legion of the Damned” – In TCW, Andrew Cadman asks us to have faith and build a new democratic golden age for the future.
- “Russian hackers demand £40 million ransom from NHS” – Russian hackers who targeted NHS hospitals have demanded a £40 million ransom, reports the Telegraph.
- “Don’t outlaw ‘Islamophobia’” – If you look into the forces demanding that Britain outlaws Islamophobia, you find the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood, writes Ed Husain in the Spectator.
- “Zelensky’s peace summit flop” – If Zelensky’s summit demonstrated anything, it’s that international support for a forever war is waning and the time for ugly compromise is beginning, says Owen Matthews in the Spectator.
- “U.K. and U.S. at loggerheads over Ukraine joining Nato” – The United States and Germany have derailed a European plan to grant Ukraine an “irreversible” path to Nato membership, reports the Telegraph.
- “British cows could be replaced with ‘double-muscled’ European breed to cut emissions” – A foreign cow breed known as the XL Bully, renowned for its muscular physique, could replace U.K. breeds under secret new plans, says the Express.
- “‘I’ll close the gender pay gap – once and for all’” – Rachel Reeves says that she will “close the gender pay gap once and for all” if she becomes Britain’s first female chancellor, according to the Telegraph. She’ll have to find it first.
- “The hidden perils of equity” – The stark divide between genuine inequality and that which the grievance industry claims to be fighting, is now at comedic proportions, says Frank Haviland in the New Conservative.
- “Racism is an incoherent, stupid and dangerous concept” – The reason that racism is in such high demand and such low supply is that it is a fake concept, writes Eugyppius on Substack.
- “We’re all Soviets now” – A government with a permanent deficit and a bloated military. A bogus ideology pushed by elites. Senescent leaders. Sound familiar? asks Niall Ferguson in the Free Press.
- “Free speech doesn’t just need defending in NZ” – New Zealand’s Free Speech Union invites everyone who can attend to see Toby Young, founder and Director of FSU U.K., currently on tour down under. Join them at an event near you.
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